Music downloading

Duke · 09-09-2004, 07:55 PM

Maybe I'm off my rocker here, but hasen't Kazaa Lite gone to the dogs lately? I've downloaded about a half a dozen songs that cut out intermittently or have a beep in them. Prolly the music industry putting these files in there so nobody can get them free anymore.

Also, Bit Torrent, what's up with that? Has it become a pay program?

What are you guys using for dl'ing t00nz and can you provide me with a link?

Paul · 09-09-2004, 10:12 PM

Kazaa Lite was being developed by a group who wanted to remove the spyware, adware and extra garbage that came with Kazaa, they used the name Kazaa but it wasn't an official product. In December they got shut down and there are no new releases of the program being offered. As for what is transferring over it's network, I've always found Kazaa to be quite unreliable but pretty much the only alternative worth using.

BitTorrent is not a pay program, you just need to know the good sites in order to get what you're looking for. Most of the good ones have become private in order to reduce leachers and limit legal backlash. Personally I still use suprnova.org and torrent-addiction.com (aka digital-update).

If I need a song that bad, I'll look for it on Kazaa, but usually I just look for albums I like on www.suprnova.org or torrent-addiction (member site)

Duke · 09-09-2004, 10:14 PM

I've been to suprnova before but couldn't find the dl's last time. I kept getting this registration page, unless I'm confusing it with Bittorrent.

Paul · 09-09-2004, 10:16 PM

It is a BitTorrent site, just make sure it's .org and not .com because they are competing sites with .com copying the .org look. No registration required.

Duke · 09-09-2004, 10:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Paul C

It is a BitTorrent site, just make sure it's .org and not .com because they are competing sites with .com copying the .org look. No registration required.

Sorry let me rephrase, I'm talking about the site bittorrent. I do know suprnova is a bittorrent site.

Mondo · 09-10-2004, 08:39 AM

I use E-donkey and Winmx.

Bittorrent is great but you have to hunt down the links for files which can be a pain in the....

Duke · 09-10-2004, 08:42 AM

I forgot all about winmx. A guy I know mentioned that one a while back and absolutely swears by it. I'll have to give it a try.

Roserman · 09-10-2004, 02:31 PM

Bearshare gets me every song I ever need, no RIAA BS either.

Mondo · 09-10-2004, 05:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Duke

I forgot all about winmx. A guy I know mentioned that one a while back and absolutely swears by it. I'll have to give it a try.

Grab napmx as well, its goes and finds opennap network servers which winmx won't do by default.

Duke · 09-10-2004, 07:49 PM

I'll give them all a try and review them here. How are they all for security, file integrity, quality, etc.?

Duke · 09-10-2004, 09:46 PM

I've downloaded a few movies from Asrueus and can't figure out how to open them. For Doom 3 I used Alcohol 12% but it doesn't seem to be working for the movies. I must be retarded

Duke · 09-10-2004, 09:50 PM

Actually, I am a tard. It turns out my free trial period has expired and now they want cold, hard, cashola.

Anyone know of alternate freeware that can convert these files?

Paul · 09-10-2004, 10:21 PM

Daemon Tools is what I use. I think I'm using a free version, or maybe I got the full one off of suprnova.org not sure which.