AG lookalike getting BETTER

[cerialnumber]

YES, it looks like it going to happen.
With the release of the first client version of MediaSeek, it was only promising by theory. Now with the release of the second client version and the update of the website, it proves to be promising in reality aswell.

Check it out for yourself at www.mediaseek.pl

Iam sure to keep my eye on this one :green6

[grab_grab_the_haddock]

got as far as the first install screen where it says

"we can provide this copy of mediaseek.pl client for free because it is supported by advertising delivered via the Gator advertising and information network"

no thanks.

[blury]

geez this program looks so promising as you said, but I have 50 files in queue and still after many hours of leaving it on - no downloads.

[blury]

Originally posted by grab_grab_the_haddock
got as far as the first install screen where it says

"we can provide this copy of mediaseek.pl client for free because it is supported by advertising delivered via the Gator advertising and information network"

no thanks.

Just manually remove gator from startup, run Ad-Aware 5 to clean up the adware, go to C:\Program Files\MediaSeek, and delete the fsg_3210.exe (gator file). That should remove the crap. Use Taskmanager to end the fsg_3210.exe process if you have to.

[blury]

Ok, I guess I'll need to figure out a way to use MediaSeek with my firewall, because it doesn't work unless it's not running.

[cerialnumber]

I see there is still doubt!

The problem with MSeek is that at the moment it doesnt have a lot of users yet. I share over a 1000mp3s there and know of a couple of friends who do this aswell. So although files seem online it may take a while for them to start.

On the other hand i've found that running MSeek doesnt interfer with other P2P apps like WinMX, KaZaa and Edonkey
This means you can run it to the side of your prefered P2Pprogram and help this community grow.

REMEMBER AG WASNT FULL GROWN OVER NIGHT!!!:;)

[TFoS_Fan]

Good posts cerialnumber, and I think also mediaseek could be massive, but will it suffer the same fate as AG:shoot

[cerialnumber]

MSeek is situated in Poland, therefor the RIAA cant get to it!!!

[method]

And how hard to you think the RIAA are trying to get a base in Poland right now??

I wish MediaSeek the best of luck tho. But they should also be working on a backup plan for the network for the day the RIAA get a suit on them in their own country, then.. flip the switch and flip the RIAA off. I hope MediaSeek have the sense to do this.

[Sockfulloflove]

i've said this many times on threads on mediaseek. it needs time to develop users and files.

[Juggalo15]

I myself never got to use AG because by the time I didn it was down....If this is going ta be like AG I want ta try and and find out....

[TFoS_Fan]

I didnt know that Mediaseek was based in poland so could not be touched by RIAA. Thats fantastic, lets hope the program gets developed quickly and more users come very soon:fire

[blury]

ya know what? mediaseek IS working with my firewall...i must of been smoking something, lol...

anyway, i've downloaded roughly 25 songs in the past 2 days. of course i had to leave about 175 songs in queue!!!

but the program works, so use it every once in a while, eh?

[grab_grab_the_haddock]

and how would you rate the range and quality of mp3?

if they got lame 192+ rips , and rare stuff to boot ill go for it.

if all they got is the latest eminem ripped at 96Kbs i think ill pass.

[alexmontrose]

I'm with you Haddock (omega 3's num num). Yeah I'm always focusing on the posts here that address new FTP's programs and what people think. It always cracks me up that the latest one is always "the best " with some people. Best what? Best looking? Has some nice colors?

For people that have been downloading since Napster started (what a great day that was huh?) all that matters is the availability of files. And at this point since you've probably gotten a good chunk of everything you've ever wanted the real barometer of a site to me is how will it handle the hard to find file, the rare one, something definetely out of the mainstream. When they come up zero there useless to me. I can get that from the programs i already have.


The latest "best" i've seen here a few times is Soulseek. Ofcourse it's all subjective but i guess I can't get past the fact that nothing compares to Audiogalaxy. I could go find an album in my basement that my Grandmother owned from 50 years ago.close my eyes and pick a song and AG would have it. THATS THE "BEST". Not something that "looks" like another site or has nice graphics. Give me the files no matter how strange they are. Was it because it was web based that AG was so good? If so when another one like that comes out then I'll get excited again.

[cerialnumber]

availability of high bitrates depends on the users, doenst it.
But to give you some good news, all the files i have downed there so far have been over 192kbps.
If you down highbitrates and share these, they automatically become the most popular version. :bling

[blury]

i'm sorry, alexmontrose, but Soulseek is sad from what I've seen. I thought (or heard) it was this haven for really rare files (especially techno), but i can't get a third of the stuff i can on Kazaa or MediaSeek. I went on there and the only thing good about it was chatting.
i tried downloading about 20 files and only 1 file was downloading at a flaming speed of 1.0kb/s :devil

what kind of files have you gotten on SoulSeek?

p.s. I do agree AG was the S-H-I-T and nothing has compared thus far.

[TFoS_Fan]

SoulSeek is great for rare files, connection to file is sometime not great but all u require is a bit of patience.

[cerialnumber]

I see that this thread on MediaSeek has been moved from the general p2p discussion to the AG|Crossplafrom. Does this imply that the moderators of zeropaid sees it as a real AG substitute?

[alexmontrose]

Hey Blury (Puddle of Mud?),

I have to figure out a way to get my searches from Audiognome, the program i've used the most since Napster and AG went down over to the ones i use now. In there i have most of my rare files that I've been trying to get. And it aint going to happen with Soulseek caused i've tried already

Then again I'm asking for stuff thats so obscure only AG or Napster would have a chance, All the others including WinMx, Blubster, Xolox, have come up empty. I was ready to look into Mediaseek but the posts say SPYWARE! Direct connect maybe?

Like i said though it looks like in order to get the really rare and diversified stuff (for me anyway) its going to have to be web based instead of p2p or servers so I guess i won't hold my breath. Thank God I've gotten most everything I've wanted anyway and now I download pretty rarely. Not one of those people who downloads whole cd's or hundreds of songs a week. If i don't really like it I don't want it and I've gotten most of that. My brain was on fire for about two years straight squezzing every nook and crany to remember everything I ever wanted along with browsing and seeing real unusual stuff from AG and napster that i got. Those were the days.

[titan18]

lol when i first installed the prog i thought i had started up AG. Ahhh.. reminds me of the good old days of AG. The only problem is after creating a new account, and a reboot of the PC, the satellite :;) was still "not connected". I am not behind any firewall, had tat one removed when i wanted to use blubster. anyone else knows how? the site for MS is reallie minimal. really looking forward to make MS work cos i miss AG sooo much. Dun mind running it just to share files. haha will use kazaa in the meantime.

[PowerMan57two]

Yes this program is promising we just need more users. I also use it. and it does have GATOR.. but at least they tell you straight out that it has gator, but some of you are just to lazy to run ad-aware and get gator out of your computer but it really is a great program. u should all try it and share files cause it could be the next AG with rare files once we get more users!!!

[82fxrs]

Originally posted by alexmontrose
I'm with you Haddock (omega 3's num num). Yeah I'm always focusing on the posts here that address new FTP's programs and what people think. It always cracks me up that the latest one is always "the best " with some people. Best what? Best looking? Has some nice colors?

For people that have been downloading since Napster started (what a great day that was huh?) all that matters is the availability of files. And at this point since you've probably gotten a good chunk of everything you've ever wanted the real barometer of a site to me is how will it handle the hard to find file, the rare one, something definetely out of the mainstream. When they come up zero there useless to me. I can get that from the programs i already have.


The latest "best" i've seen here a few times is Soulseek. Ofcourse it's all subjective but i guess I can't get past the fact that nothing compares to Audiogalaxy. I could go find an album in my basement that my Grandmother owned from 50 years ago.close my eyes and pick a song and AG would have it. THATS THE "BEST". Not something that "looks" like another site or has nice graphics. Give me the files no matter how strange they are. Was it because it was web based that AG was so good? If so when another one like that comes out then I'll get excited again.

[PowerMan57two]

I've been with Mediaseek since 0.6.0 and I've had 0.62, 0.63, and now 0.70!!! wow getting better!! and as everyone is saying just use ad-aware to get rid of gator software, easy as that!!! lovin the program every step of the way!! I think it has big plans, I wish they wouldadvertise it with banners, that'd be cool, but really no p2p does that. but I would get this program share your files, and try to stay online as long as you can to make it grow as big as AG!!...

I share all my songs, 513 songs

(like 475 of my songs are 128Bitrate, cause when I buy cds and such from the store, and rip them onto my computer at 320, and then I rip that at 128? I do not tell the difference, so I just rip all my files at 128Bitrate cause i can't tell the difference)

[cerialnumber]

Originally posted by PowerMan57two
(like 475 of my songs are 128Bitrate, cause when I buy cds and such from the store, and rip them onto my computer at 320, and then I rip that at 128? I do not tell the difference, so I just rip all my files at 128Bitrate cause i can't tell the difference)

There actually is a very big difference between 128 and 320kbps. The fact you dont here it can be caused by the player you use. For instance, when using winamp2 be sure the select the waveout plugin under output devices, this converts mp3s into the wave format when playing. 128mp3's always sound like they are being muffled. You can also easily tell the difference when you burn them as audio.

anyways keep sharing on mediaseek, but preferably 192 or higher. Cheers:fire

[capone9k]

Hey Guys i dont want to spam but check out my post about EvolutionP2P i posted all my info there. Im sure you will be happy with it.

Long live mediaseek
all they need is a forum
2 audiogalaxy's clone's im in heaven

[capone9k]

mediaseek is good and it will grow to it's full potential
just wait and see. evolutionp2p is right behind them so watch out for them both because they are coming. if you shutdown soulseek, kazaa and winmx. Guess where everyone will go??
thats is it mediaseek and evolution no p2p grows over nite

[TooMuchFun2003]

I first tried MS two months ago, and it was utter crap - share more than 500 files and it usually bombed, when it DID connect nobody ever got to download from me. I ditched it after four days of trying. Now that Blubster has committed suicide with the worse-than-useless v2beta2 I was looking for another P2P to run alongside WinMX so I installed the new version of MediaSeek, not expecting it to be any better than before but I've been really surprised by the new version....always connects, always shares my 4500 files (most at 192 bit-rate) without locking up, and my DSL connection is permanently maxed out with all 10 upload slots full. Don't worry about the Gator on this thing, it still runs fine after Ad-Aware has cleaned it - also, if you're sharing over 1000 files, don't be surprised if it takes several minutes to share them, especially on the first run ..... if the developers of MS are reading this, I'd like to say a big Thanks! All it really needs is a counter like AG used to have, saying how many files you've uploaded and received, apart from that - this IS the new Audiogalaxy !!:cross

[stopdead]

hullo. My mediaseek client downloaded one song super fast then nothing for three days now. Didnt have this problem with the earlier versions just version 7.0.
got rid of the spyware and re-installed the thing but to no avail. What are you lot doing to make it work that im not? All the files ive requested are online but fakkin nothing.:green5 Any ideas?

[stopdead]

oh dear it gets worse! I'm not a serial basher- all versions before 7.0 worked fine.
But when I open my client it flashes up for a micromoment then plonks itself in the systems tray-thats fine- but I swear for that microsecond I can see a list of songs downloading. But nothing happens when I bring the client up to view. Nothing at all is downloading.
The songs requested all stay at 0. BUT theyve been added to my sharefiles anyway! this cannot be right surely.
Is there such a thing as computie-rage? losing patience

[cerialnumber]

Originally posted by stopdead
But when I open my client it flashes up for a micromoment then plonks itself in the systems tray-thats fine- but I swear for that microsecond I can see a list of songs downloading. But nothing happens when I bring the client up to view. Nothing at all is downloading.
The songs requested all stay at 0. BUT theyve been added to my sharefiles anyway! this cannot be right surely.
Is there such a thing as computie-rage? losing patience

it would be very strange for downloads to start in the micro second you describe. it takes time to hash the files you're sharing and to find the files you've requested. If they would start directly upon start up you would probably have the fastest computer and internet connection ever. My downloads, but mostly uploads start after a couple of seconds (i have cable).
As for the files in your incoming folder. i dont know if they are added up the number shared. But it is obvious why they are in your shared folder, right? anyway if you have real problems connecting and they could be useful for the development of the site, you can mail them to support@medaseek.pl

cheers

[RJ5500]

Originally posted by AudioG8
if mediaseek had features like audiogalaxy it would be very good
:sw

It may eventually. It depends on how far the developers of the software want to take it.

:)

[stopdead]

I e-mailed them a couple of weeks ago but got no direct reply, although they posted on their main page that they were having hardware problems and to please be patient. It seems at the mo' I'm only dl'ing stuff that is ul'ing as well.:mellow
Back in october they said they were going to iron out all the technical bugs before adding features like groups, message boards etc- surely cant be too much longer now?!:tilted

[derekb]

mediaseek sounds really good........but the website is down now!
anyyone know whats happening?

[stopdead]

I just checked and you're right! Usually when this happens (just about always on a weekend in my experience) it comes back updated (yay :fire ) so i'm not too worried!