POLL: If AG goes down, where will the community migrate

[z05+3R0p5]

Imagine, hard as it may seem, for a moment that the $hite has hit the fan and AG goes the way of Napster. What yould you do then to get your, err, evaluation copies of music?

[The Sandman]

Well, most people i would guess use AG and another P2P app

[John W. Lindh]

The network is not Gnucleus but Gnutella, Gnucleus is one of the client, - anyways, that's where most people will probably be going. It's evolving faster than any other network at the moment. It's amazing if you imagine what gnutella was half a year ago and what it is now. Fasttrack remained more or less the same, eDonkey has only been seeing small improvements, Direct Connect is as shitty as it ever was and WinMX users just haven't noticed yet that napster died quite a while ago.

[Sephiroth]

Originally posted by John W. Lindh
The network is not Gnucleus but Gnutella, Gnucleus is one of the client, - anyways, that's where most people will probably be going. It's evolving faster than any other network at the moment. It's amazing if you imagine what gnutella was half a year ago and what it is now. Fasttrack remained more or less the same, eDonkey has only been seeing small improvements, Direct Connect is as shitty as it ever was and WinMX users just haven't noticed yet that napster died quite a while ago.

Fixed. And I agree.

[roger d]

I marched from napster to AG. Got upset with the spyware carp and moved on. Since hooking on to ZP I have used a ton of different programs. No longer will I just use one program. The answer is all of the above.
By the way zo5+3rop5 please post your cool electronic list on the favorite band thread in mp3's section. I will be in touch.

[PowerMan57two]

I'm switching to Blubster. Because after Napster closed down I wanted something that looked just like the old napster, will all the features, chat rooms, buddy list, ignore list, broiwse files, ect. and now with Blubster 2.0 coming out with all these features, I'm going with Blubster. It's easy, fast and free!

[Christoph]

www.HelpAudiogalaxy.tk

[g0b]

Blubster kicks ass! :fire

[Crazy Horse]

Since AudioGalaxy specialized in MP3s I think most of those files will go to Blubster. They have already doubled their user base in the last couple of weeks..

[Ken17625]

Well I think most will move to Blubster. I won't be moving because i'm already there. I never used AG(don't really have a reason why). But people should also try File Spree. Its like Blubster but you can share ANY file not just MP3.

Gebrowski's iguana haunts me so.

Be Afraid.

[backmann]

My guess would be WinMX. Usually people who come from networks that do not need a lot of bandwith don't like Gnutella.

Ivan
"In the dark we make a brighter light"

[momodig]

When I search a song, none appear in the window... though it says it scan X-amount of songs in the lower left hand corner.

[jabba|xtra]

I think its pretty obvious where most of the ag users went. Before ag went down blubster had 5000 some users on, but now they have sometimes 10000 or more

[Crazy Horse]

I have been on the Filetopia forum boards and there are alot of AudioGalaxy people there.

[grendizer]

Edonkey's programmers are working on a new P2P program that will be called "overnet", watch it out!! I hope it will be easy to download MP3's from this one. :sw

[Music Pirate]

Time will only tell where the members of Audiogalaxy go.

[crapforcrap123]

I used AG, and loved it, and since then I've tried a lot of different programs. I tried blubster, but it didn't work because I'm on a network. And some other stuff on Gnutella, it worked but it didn't have that many files that I wanted, and so far Kazaa lite has worked the best. :mellow

[paul248]

Why is WinMX not on this poll? In my experience, it is the best program for downloading mp3s, and pretty good for getting certain executable stuff. I disagree with the post a while back mentioning that WinMX users haven't realized that Napster is dead, because WinMX includes its own decentralized network which has nothing to do with Napster. I have never been able to try out Blubster because it does not function at all behind my router.

[Nothingface5384]

do u think users will really "migrate"....most ppl use more then 1 p2p program

[backmann]

It's curious that thge majority thinks they will go to Blubster, yet it's the less known of the options.

Ivan
"In the dark we make a brighter light"

[whiff]

well, Backmann, i'd have to view it as further evidence that crap is king. AG had the WORST user interface of any P2P application ever invented, and of course was a one-file-type system. people who don't know any better will adopt anything, and then defend it to the death, because they are so darn afraid of being wrong.
AG: Good riddance to bad rubbish
Blubster: bleah.

[Music Pirate]

Listen whiff, audiogalaxy satellite maybe have been ugly, but you didn't use it search for music you use your browser. And if fashion is the only thing you look in a file/music sharing program then you are hopeless. Like at WinMX is the uglies thing I have ever since, but it is one the best (now) file sharing programs. You go by speed, number of users, and performance of the software.....NOT HOW IT LOOKS Audiogalaxy was one of the best music sharing programs out there.

[whiff]

i'm not gonna get into a flame war over this, but please understand that the term "user interface" does not relate to cosmetics, but to how a program works. it took more mouse clicks to find and download a song in AG than in any other program i've ever used. that's poor interface design. AG sucked (In my completely biased opinion) because it used both a web interface and the "satellite" client, neither worked well in my experience. Also please note, i used AG extensively, wrote about it for a national magazine, interviewed their key employees and hosted my band's music up there. AG had a big user base, which made it important, but it was a lousy example of web design and software design. Also please note that (in my completely biased opinion) programs that only allow MP3 files to be shared are not worth the effort. That's why Blubster is not of interest, because it's music only.

[Music Pirate]

Ok whiff, I don't wanted to get in a flame war either, and your opinion is your opinion and you have right to it...free of speech..... Anyway I have also wrote for several national tech and computer magazines, interviewed people when Napster was King, AG too, and top people before Fast Trask network was stoled to Sharman. But since you are the expert on music, what file sharing should people be use. Because this whole topic is where does the community of AG go.

I think, WinMX have the chance, maybe, but has a lot of bugs and problems with the software in my eyes. Shareaza is coming on strong in the Gnutella world, but small in numbers. Blubster, maybe, but the software is made by one man, it is a new software and has several bugs in it too and is take time to develop version 2. Some say Fast Track Network has keeped up the numbers if not before AG was taking down. And now maybe going to falling(no matter what program you use) due to the recording companies flooding it fake files driving people away. So for right now KaZaA (or KaZaA Lite) seems to be the top p2p on the mountain. But hey it is just my opinion and you seem to be in the minority man.

[the_chiller]

I strongly believe that AG users will migrate to Blubster, because it is a music-only p2p program. This gives us the impression that not only the network is saturated with audio files, but also that the client is written exclusively to search for music. When you come to think about it, most people looking for songs want something similar to a napster interface, we don't want to get results consisting of .exe or .rar when we search for something.

Remember, AG had the RAREST MP3 files because it was music-only, and hence users would have much more incentive to share out mp3s. Blubster is the same kind of music-only network, its hard not to believe that AG ppl would move there.

[whiff]

Slyck just ran a story today that mentioned Blubster as the heir-apparant to AG, specifically because of the availability of rare files. And I agree with Music Pirate's comments about user traffic and general application stability - those are huge factors. I don't personally care for music-only search engines, i download a lot of video, that's my oddball bias. I was compelled for professional reasons to use AG, I hated it, and was glad to see it go. But AG adherents are legion, they got their reasons, and I have no argument with them, or with you, Music Pirate.

[amososodef]

U can get more rare files in WINMX conected to openNAP server

[rsloane1]

you are all wrong (im not intending to be offensive/abusive at all by the way), i speak from experience in saying this, i was/(still am) a major user of audiogalaxy, i own a user group there with 1000+ members, MOST ag users have migrated to soulseek (www.soulseek.org) , unfortunately, they have had major problems recently, and have had to move to another domain, www.slsk.org , so they have a lost a few of their users, but otherwise, its buisness as usual, please, give it a try, its a fantastic app......

[Caitlyn Marble]

I agree, soulseek is the home of the exiled ag users, I found files that weren't on WinMX, and I'm not talking about electronic music either.