Shareaza Plus

[napho]

At least it connects quicker. Hard to tell if the other claims are true.


Shareaza Plus is developed to create the fastet Gnutella 1+2, eDonkey2k and BitTorrent client on the planet. It includes enhancements to significantly speed up downloads and file searches. It boosts networking performance under WinXP and is very easy to use.




http://sourceforge.net/projects/shareazaplus/

[Auggie2k]

Does it have everything shareaza 2.1 has?

[mp3master1215]

its a kick as program it makes shareaza 2.1 look like junk. It goes up to 20 connections 10 g2 and 10 g1 and it gets sick results. Its the best damn thing ive ever seen. better then any p2p.

[Auggie2k]

Tried it out and I must say I am very very impressed! Connects to all the networks for me and even G1 which I could never get working with 2.1! Thanks for the link!

[.:sp00ky:.]

They seem to of added a feature shareaza forgot about.....it works :P

[Krell]

When you first install and add files to share . . be aware that if you click "Hash Files Faster" is will hog ur cpu usage to 100%

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[Auggie2k]

Good tip krell!

[Krell]

Thx, im just test driving it

If you get several results such as jpgs of Namie Amuro, you can arrange by TYPE then hold down Shift or Ctrl and click the files, which highlights them all. Then right click and Download Now. All 20 etc will be queued.

[Krell]

Under Tools > Settings > ShareazaPlus Settings > DESELECT the option to "Switch to Tranfers View on Download"


me no likey

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[Krell]

Also, I download my files to one physical drive, then chose another physical drive to store them.

ShareazaPlus moves the completed files, which defrags them in the move

Diskeeper 9 confirms this for me

sweet

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[Auggie2k]

Keep 'em coming krell!

[ferrarimodena360]

can someone post screenshots

[.:sp00ky:.]

Its just shareaza..it looks just the same.

[ferrarimodena360]

Its just shareaza..it looks just the same.

i pass :icon_scra

[boogiedan]

jeez wen did this come out
i'll hav 2 try it
very nice post
any review's

[ccc1005]

its a kick as program it makes shareaza 2.1 look like junk. It goes up to 20 connections 10 g2 and 10 g1 and it gets sick results. Its the best damn thing ive ever seen. better then any p2p.

Are you a leaf connected to 10 ultrapeers?!?! If so thats really bad for the network...

[Krell]

I went out, had lunch at an indonesian church, chatted up a jp student over ice cream, went to chinatown to the jp video store I supply videos and movies to, and sent a package to a city in the Ph.

Now that I am back, I have 79 new files, and 11 new sets of "Ayaka's Surprise English Lesson" - 010711 Ishikawa Rika - Where can I get a cup of coffee (SUBTITLED).avi

I cant describe the joy

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[ccc1005]

Did they just tweak some of the advanced control settings or is it more than that...

[Atarius]

Shareaza Plus is developed to create the fastet Gnutella 1+2, eDonkey2k and BitTorrent client on the planet. /[/url]

To my knowledge its the only multi-network client that connects to Gnutella 1+2, eDonkey2k and BitTorrent, so thats not much of a claim. I might give it a try after it comes out of beta testing.

[Kevin33134]

To my knowledge its the only multi-network client that connects to Gnutella 1+2, eDonkey2k and BitTorrent, so thats not much of a claim. I might give it a try after it comes out of beta testing.
Actually, Shareaza Plus is a rip of Shareaza. It is not related to Shareaza development whatsoever, other than the fact it uses Shareaza's code.

[Excrement_Cranium]

I don't know... I think I have my new single file program. For now........

[Christoph]

It connects only to gnutella1 for me (6hubs).I had to copy my cach from the normal shareaza (now 3G1 and 3 G2)

[grab_grab_the_haddock]

Actually, Shareaza Plus is a rip of Shareaza. It is not related to Shareaza development whatsoever, other than the fact it uses Shareaza's code.

It was my understanding that shareaza was open source. I don't see how shareaza plus can be a "rip" of shareaza any more than emuleplus is a "rip" of emule or BCDC++ is a rip of DC++. I think the word "mod" or "improvement" would be a better description than "rip".

[ABC123666]

Why didnt they just hop on board with the shareaza dev team?

[ferrarimodena360]

Why didnt they just hop on board with the shareaza dev team?

difference in opinion i am guessing

[Kevin33134]

It was my understanding that shareaza was open source. I don't see how shareaza plus can be a "rip" of shareaza any more than emuleplus is a "rip" of emule or BCDC++ is a rip of DC++. I think the word "mod" or "improvement" would be a better description than "rip".
It would be different if the program had a different name from "Shareaza" and did not use the Shareaza images/icons.

[cpugeniusmv]

It would be different if the program had a different name from "Shareaza" and did not use the Shareaza images/icons.
The images/icons are open source too.

eMule and eMule Plus have names that are quite similar, and their interfaces are nearly identical if I recall correctly.

Same goes with DC++ and BCDC++.

[serrebi101]

all it is is a version of shareaza with different defaults based on a newest cvs version.
It's great, but you only think it's so great because shareaza hasn't been updated in like a half a year. Shareaza fanboys hate it because of the amounte of gnutella gnodes or whatever it connects to.
But what can you do when they take a half a year to pump out a new version.

[Krell]

Why dont you all go to the forums, and get real information from the discussion threads that are relavent, instead of hear-say and speculation. You can get info from the dev team at sourceforge, or from the forums.

Quotes would be nice


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[Auggie2k]

all it is is a version of shareaza with different defaults based on a newest cvs version.
It's great, but you only think it's so great because shareaza hasn't been updated in like a half a year. Shareaza fanboys hate it because of the amounte of gnutella gnodes or whatever it connects to.
But what can you do when they take a half a year to pump out a new version.
Actually they're were on it for 9 months.... when the hell is it being released?

[maynoth]

Awesome thanks for the great find... I hope the ShareazaPlus project incorporates the new Shareaza 2.2 code when it is released...

[ccc1005]

Shareaza fanboys hate it because of the amounte of gnutella gnodes or whatever it connects to.
But what can you do when they take a half a year to pump out a new version.

Umm, anybody who knows how the Gnutella network runs knows this is a bad thing, the whole ideas of ultrapeers was to only connect to 2-3 of them. Anything more just floods the network with useless traffic. I use Bearshare and it gets 2 UPs and I get tons of results...

[stealthspy]

Yes, I am a shareaza fanboy. And yes, this is total shit. G2 uses a search mechanism that actually WORSENS your (and everyone elses) network performance if you connect to more than 2 or 3 hubs, because all it does is find hubs and get upload requests through its connected hubs, whereas it sends sends search requests through its hubs in the host cache. In other words, more G2 hubs does NOT equal more search results, unlike classic Gnutella. Shareaza Plus is a network spamming client which kills the network. No one should ever use it.

[ferrarimodena360]

i installed and chose adsl 512

connected to 2 g1 and 3 g2, so wts so special about this 1

yea as i thought depends on what bandwidth u chose. honestly dont find no differnce with my modest 512/512 connection

[maynoth]

Shareaza Plus is the shiznit.... after a little tweaking... it is the god of all P2P (except Bittorent)

[ferrarimodena360]

aight so many ppl cant be wrong
as posted earlier i am on 512/512, what tweaks, what xtra settings, how should i configure the start up wizard

i wanna learn i wanna learn

[maynoth]

man theres like a hundred little settings to tweak... goto advanced (in power mode) and set gnutella max hits to like 4096 thats the best one i know of

[boogiedan]

gonna try this out
its gettin rave reviews of u lot
buildin up steam
time for the boogie to try
trouble is i found wid original sharaza is wen i install...say i choose sharaza NOT to accept
torrent's ..well it JUST BLATANTLY ignored me
main point i'll use this BUT not if it screws my up(currently torrentin wid Bitcomet0.58

[ferrarimodena360]

man theres like a hundred little settings to tweak... goto advanced (in power mode) and set gnutella max hits to like 4096 thats the best one i know of

so the same settings u can change in shareaza, whats up wid dis version then

[maynoth]

it auto connects to 10 G1, and 10 G2 Hubs... faster searches.... faster downloads...

[petteyg359]

Adding so many hub connection just clogs 1/G2 networks. Any idiot should expect slow downloads from ED2K until they've uploaded tons of stuff.

Shareaza allows you to choose an incomplete (downloading) file directory and a completed file directory. It has done that since 1.8. You could put those on different drives if you wanted to, and it would stay defragged on the complete drive anyway (that's not unique to either Shareaza or this "Shareaza Plus", any program will write sequentially to the drive if there's room to). This "Shareaza Plus" is NOT defragging anything. It's just copying them over.

Of course "Hash Files Faster" uses more CPU. How the hell do you expect it to do it faster without using more CPU? Are you retarded?

Where's the source code for this? I wouldn't be surprised if this has all kinds of spyware in it.

Shareaza can queue/download multiple files and select multiple ones to download from the search window... that's also been there since 1.8.

Shareaza works, unless you're too stupid to follow some simple setup directions.

Shareaza is the best G1/G2 client out there, if you're looking for eDonkey/eMule, then make slight use of your brain and you might then think, "Oh! I want eMule!". Azureus is good for BitTorrent. If you don't like Azureus or eMule, find something else. But Shareaza will always be the best G1/G2, if only because it is open source, spyware-free, ad-free, and free.

[Kevin33134]

The images/icons are open source too.

eMule and eMule Plus have names that are quite similar, and their interfaces are nearly identical if I recall correctly.

Same goes with DC++ and BCDC++.
I cannot find anywhere in the license that says the images/icons are open source. In reality, no one is going to fight it. The problem with someone simply using Shareaza's name is that they could infest it with spyware/adware and it would then also be associated with Shareaza. Other than the fact that Shareaza Plus is harmful to the G2 network in that it connects to a lot of G2 hubs by default (which does not help with searching) and a lot of Gnutella UPs (this does help with searching but Shareaza cannot provide its own UPs, which is the reason Shareaza has locked itself at a max of 2 Gnutella UPs for the time being).

Also for the defragmentation of files, have you tried to see if the newest Shareaza beta has this function? I cannot find in the Shareaza Plus code where it does anything of this nature.

[Sparky9]

Where's the source code for this? I wouldn't be surprised if this has all kinds of spyware in it.
I'm sure anyone with the ability to use the source code knows that they can find it
here (http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=131699).

[cpugeniusmv]

I cannot find anywhere in the license that says the images/icons are open source. In reality, no one is going to fight it.
Below is an excerpt from the GPL.


The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for
making modifications to it. For an executable work, complete source
code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any
associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to
control compilation and installation of the executable. However, as a
special exception, the source code distributed need not include
anything that is normally distributed (in either source or binary
form) with the major components (compiler, kernel, and so on) of the
operating system on which the executable runs, unless that component
itself accompanies the executable.


The problem with someone simply using Shareaza's name is that they could infest it with spyware/adware and it would then also be associated with Shareaza.
That's certainly a possibility. Fortunately not true in this case (as far as I know?).


Other than the fact that Shareaza Plus is harmful to the G2 network in that it connects to a lot of G2 hubs by default (which does not help with searching) and a lot of Gnutella UPs (this does help with searching but Shareaza cannot provide its own UPs, which is the reason Shareaza has locked itself at a max of 2 Gnutella UPs for the time being).
I agree with you there. But what they're doing is legal.


aight so many ppl cant be wrong
I laugh every time I hear someone say that.

[Kevin33134]

I'm sure anyone with the ability to use the source code knows that they can find it
here (http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=131699).
While it doesn't install spyware, just having the source available doesn't really mean much... as the installer could be modified. Also, the source code in the CVS may not match what is in the compiled executable. This is probably not the case for this program. It's also worth noting that the activity on Shareaza Plus seems to have stopped.

[cpugeniusmv]

While it doesn't install spyware, just having the source available doesn't really mean much... as the installer could be modified. Also, the source code in the CVS may not match what is in the compiled executable. This is probably not the case for this program. It's also worth noting that the activity on Shareaza Plus seems to have stopped.
What you've said about Shareaza Plus can easily be said about any open source program. (Except for the activity bit :D )

[.:sp00ky:.]

ahh i remember one of the main reasons i don't like shareaza...its the braindead users that come along with it.

[ferrarimodena360]

I laugh every time I hear someone say that.

dag sum senior user here help me, me just thinks this is no different than plain shareaza, i found it to be buggy, it says it connects to 12 but shows only 6 in network window, :icon_rr:

[zab]

ahh i remember one of the main reasons i don't like shareaza...its the braindead users that come along with it.

The fanbois are everywhere!

[napho]

I'm connected to 2 G2 hubs, 2 Gnutella ultrapeers, and 1 eDonkey server but it says connected to 11 neighbours. It connects to Gnutella immediately, unlike the regular client. It also starts downloading from eDonkey sooner and faster.

[Krell]

You can select or deselect that

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[XAEN]

thanks so much
it works great, better than shareaza

[John W. Lindh]

Very interesting, - somebody with a clue took the Shareaza source-code and actually improved it.

[xenof]

Very interesting, - somebody with a clue took the Shareaza source-code and actually improved it.

I don’t think so. They took shareaza’s alpha versions code, they implement nothing. They remove limits especially for gnutella network. So, user now can connect to more than 10 gnutella ultrapeers. The idiot who hacked up shareaza doesn’t understand that such an action can bring gnutella to the edge. What will happen when this “version” hammer down gnutella?

[John W. Lindh]

What will happen when this “version” hammer down gnutella?
The major vendors may simply put a ban on all Shareaza versions...

[cletis_van_damm]

im having problems connecting to the G2s the others connect but not the g2s

[Kevin33134]

Shareaza will never match Shareaza Plus's performance in the Gnutella area until it implements working Ultrapeers. Shareaza is capped at connecting to two Gnutella ultrapeers while Shareaza Plus connects up to 10?

[simon_says_horrible]

I tried Shareaza 2.2 but i moved to ShareazaPlus because the download speed is much better and it starts right away (without connecting to eDonkey network).

Screenshot
http://img390.imageshack.us/img390/7995/050910shareazadsl7hz.jpg

[Digital Bliss]

You guys know whats funny about these plus or pro versions you can download them on their networks....

[Excrement_Cranium]

plus is a sourceforge alternative.

[edgecat0r]

Rightfull Inter.net Angry Assholes are everywhere!!!

[soundmaster inc]

well Napho ,shareaza plus is downoading fast,downloading speed reminds me limewire.thanks!

[Excrement_Cranium]

Rightfull Inter.net Angry Assholes are everywhere!!!


Saltine crackers are briney.

[Signa]

two questions:

1: why the hell did this thread get dug up for random comments and
2: how did i miss this in the first place, if its so good, i should be using it!

[Auggie2k]

Your right Signa, it really is a good program. Hook up to 10 hubs on Gnutella, download the ED2K server list, disable the torrent extension and your off. I use it as my rarities source or for old or small programs and of course for the odd single MP3, works tremendously well.

[kokanezub]

wow y is it so much BETTER everything is so fuckin faster WOW!! WTF its like its a new descovery

[Spyder810]

When I went to install it on my win 98 machine it installed fine. Then I went to install it on my win xp sp2. Not sure why but I kept getting an error (runtime error xx.xxxx). Well however I decided to change compatability of the install exe to win 98 and it installed sucessfully, it also runs perfectly and a lot better than shareaza ran on my machine. Hope this helps :icon_thum

[maynoth]

no probs on installing on sp2... I hope the author updates to the new shareaza 2.2.1.0 code sometime... man this would be the ultimate program then...

[lifehacker]

No problems installing on sp2 here either.