Best music download software???

[top fuel]

Hypothetically, what's the best software for downloading music??

I'm, ermmm, doing an essay on it

Which are the best and roughly how do they work??

What's DC++ and what's bit torrent?

Ta. Paul

Neither myself nor pistonheads.com encourage, nor condone the illegal distribution of music.

[Chris_w]

Check out allofmp3.com, it's a Russion site where you can select the quality and format you download at. Go to the help section and 'About audio compression' should give you some food for thought.

[white_van_man]

Chris_w said:

Check out allofmp3.com, it's a Russion site where you can select the quality and format you download at. Go to the help section and 'About audio compression' should give you some food for thought.

this is a great site i use it all the time, $5 for 500meg download credit

[top fuel]

Is the language barrier hard to overcome?

[Chris_w]

top fuel said:

Is the language barrier hard to overcome?

Luckily, just before I got out my old 'Russian for dummies' I noticed the 'English' translation button in the top left hand corner

It's a very easy site to use and they make it very easy for you to download a lot for very little. Helps if you download the AllofMP3 explorer as well which will automatically pull down any files you've ordered.

[top fuel]

Hmmmmmm,

So roughly how does this site work? You pay for the ammount of data? How do you vary the quality etc?

[danhay]

WinMx works for me.

(and it's free).

[vixpy1]

I use Grockster, alot of rubbish but occasionally if you put in a song name , you don't get porn files returned in the search. I hate it when this happens

[top fuel]

vixpy1 said:

I use Grockster, alot of rubbish but occasionally if you put in a song name , you don't get porn files returned in the search. I hate it when this happens

can I have some more info please?

[wedg1e]

I use Shareaza. Works OK, but my PC gets raped like a prison nonce every time I turn my firewall off to allow it access to the peer-to-peer...

[vixpy1]

top fuel said:

vixpy1 said: I use Grockster, alot of rubbish but occasionally if you put in a song name , you don't get porn files returned in the search. I hate it when this happens can I have some more info please?

www.grockster.com

Beware it will try and install all sorts of adware though!

[top fuel]

That's ok. I've got a very efficent "deleter-thing" of such adware.

I'll try it on saturday. That's when I unleash my 3Mb Broadbean for the first time.

[vixpy1]

top fuel said:

I'll try it on saturday. That's when I unleash my 3inch Broadbean for the first time.

Somethings are better left unsaid, especially with me around

[GingerNinja]

Do a google search for Kazaa Lite - don't get regular Kazaa as it's full of spyware.

[slinky]

I was recommended to try bearshare, and it appears to be bloody marvellous..

www.bearshare.com I think... google should turn it up

slinky

[Chris_w]

anonymous said:

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Well the only scary entries on this months cc statement are those put there by my girlfriend and the $5 I spent on downloads is there (complete with translation from rubles!). The site was recommended by a friend who'd been using it trouble free for a while too.

anonymous said:

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From the help section of the site:

allofmp3 said:

Is it legal to download music from site AllOFMP3.com? All the materials in the MediaServices projects are available for distribution through Internet according to license # LS-3Ì-03-79 of the Russian Multimedia and Internet Society. Under the license terms, MediaServices pays license fees for all the materials subject to the Law of the Russian Federation "On Copyright and Related Rights". All the materials are available solely for personal use and must not be used for further distribution, resale or broadcasting. Users are responsible for any usage and distribution of all materials received from AllOFMP3.com. This responsibility depends on the local legislation of each user's country of residence. AllOFMP3.com's Administration does not keep up with the laws of different countries and is not responsible the actions of non-Russian users.

Now where did I leave that old Russian passport....

[Zorro]

top fuel said:

Hypothetically, what's the best software for downloading music?? I'm, ermmm, doing an essay on it Which are the best and roughly how do they work?? What's DC++ and what's bit torrent? Ta. Paul Neither myself nor pistonheads.com encourage, nor condone the illegal distribution of music.

DC++ is a file sharing client that's free to download and easy to setup. There are many hubs that handle search results and facilitate chat, all the file transfers are made between clients.

There is a lot of control you can exercise on which files you share and with whom. Most hubs require at least 1 gig of shared files, eg bin, img, iso files etc and most if not all hubs prohibit sharing of rubbish ie installed apps, files. You can disconnect any individual from your queue or just close that particular hub connection.

I've been using it for 3 years and recently tried emule for a week, it was garbage, slow incomings sometimes rarely reaching 20K but usually around 1-5K with a lot of uploads slowing everything down on a 2m pipe.

If you're not feeling altruistic it's possible to create a large share of stuff no-one really wants anymore to allow you to access the better hubs like >>20Gb share but this really goes against the ethos of DC++.

There's rarely anything I can't find, I just took a 'eval copy' of all 3 doom3 CDs at 100-150Kish. My most popular uploads at the moment are Splinter Cell 2 and Fahrenheit 911.

[top fuel]

Zorro said:

If you're not feeling altruistic it's possible to create a large share of stuff no-one really wants anymore to allow you to access the better hubs like >>20Gb share but this really goes against the ethos of DC++.

Well, I have over 40Gb of my own, Legally aquired Music (No, I don't want to even consider how much money they have cost or mow much time uploading them took), not to mention videos i've downloaded off sleepy fish etc. so I should be able to get on to the serious Hubs no probs, without going against the "unwritten code".

Thanks for the help.

[BrianTheYank]

soulseek is the best btw.

[top fuel]

BrianTheYank said:

soulseek is the best btw.

Enlighten me.....

I really don't have a clue what the difference is. The music I'm into isn't that obscure, should be catered for by any program.