What's the best p2p for music?
 

I have Kaza winmx, etc but is there any websites out there that have full albums out that you can download in a zip file? It sucks trying to download a full album of kazza most of the time its the wrong song.

thanks,

What's the best p2p for music?
 

I know there's many but which are best? Explain why? Thanks

IMO, There was only one music site that was worth it...Audio Galaxy. Anything I was looking for I could find it on there...And I mean Anything.

It's dead now, And I haven't found a Music Site that is even close to what Audio Galaxy once was.

I use a combination of eDonkey / eMule and BitTorrent using the BT++ client.

Between these two I could find pretty much any album I wanted and download them with speed

Sadly alot of the sites I was getting my .torrent links from seem to have dissapeared.

I find Share Reactor and File Nexus a good place for downloading whole albums (using eDonkey )

www.grokster.com is what I use. I have found alot of deep cuts off of Cd's and even full cd's. The biggest drawback are the occasional popups and advertisements.

I use soulseek, and I usually find everything I'm looking for

Usenet is where it's at. The one caveat is there is a slight learning curve and you can only download what someone is kind enough to post but that is what requests are for...

I agree! Ag is th best... EVAR! 93.1% of the time I can find the song I'm looking for. And the speed is superb. I miss it dearly :(

I use Kazaa now and sometimes I look for albums on IRC.

Kazaa Lite

I have to agree with you on that. That's where I get 95% of my album downloads. When I only want a certain song at a party, I fire up kazaa. The best thing about Usenet is the people ripping the music and posting really know their shit, so the ID3 tags are right, songs are not cut off, and they are named correctly.

It's really worth it to put the time involved in learning how to properly use it. A program that makes it easy id grab-it, found at http://www.shemes.com/index.php?p=download It's not perfect, but it's easy as hell to use.

Yeah, usenet is really the best place for full albums and trying out new artists.

I like KDX too. There are some sweet music servers with hard to get content out there.

http://www.kazaalite.nl

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Kazaa lite, its all there, but its healthier

I use DC++, and find almost anything I'm looking for.

Yeah, AG was the best during its time. I could find anything there.

For more obscure music, go to soulseek, you can find just about anything there.

www.slsk.org

I use winmx... used to use irc on dalnet's servers

1 program, 2 sites.

http://www.mirc.com

http://www.packetnews.com
http://www.xdccspy.com

I vouch for soulseek... if you are into underground/electronica that is the place

Kazaa lite for songs, Direct Connect (DC) if I want full albums of well known artists.

heh, couldn't've said it better myself :)

one more thing handy for XDCC bots - XDCC Klipper

seriously, for full albums in proper rels format (192, sfv, etc) IRC is the best way for most everyone.

y'all just gotta give it a try ;)

I have to recommend Piolet for anyone who hasn't tried it already. It reminds me of napster, just music, fast, decent size and growing selection.

I like Direct Connect and have started to enjoy bittorrent as well. Direct connect seems to contain a greater amount of quality downloads and faster speeds. You do need to have a decent sized collection to share out to start otherwise you can't access many servers.

BT++ and usenet

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imo, kazaa Lite is the best.

I use kazza lite k++ its terrific for my needs!

another vote for kazaa lite

i have been trying soulseek after seeing it on here for the last week and it is so good i deleted kazaa lite 2 and only use it now.
the users who used to be on ag or kazaa share the old shared folders so the videos etc are still there.
it has a huge focus on the stuff i like like downtempo and chillout electronica, but they have so many rooms with every type of genre i havent used anything else.
it took a few days to0 learn but the way you get full cds already organised is great and i have yet to find fake files or looped bites like i did on kazaa. thats what made me switch, all the fake files flooding the kazaalite 2 p2p.

mirc has full cd's

I have Kazaa... what's the difference between that and Kazaa lite? Also, Kazaa itself would be much better if people would rename and keep the crap versions of songs in their share folders. Rename it so other people dont keep downloading it from each other. It really suks on a 56k!

yes sure but how with mirc ??? what channel yu go ? i don't understand this program !!!


and anybody talk about boards ftp ??

im a winmx guy myself, the results arent always the greatest but it gets me what i need

I use bittorrent with shareaza, great for full cds

Bittorrent

I use Azureus, which is Java based, but really a terrific program. Works like a champ.

Obviously, in this post Suprnova environment, the key to using BT is stuff like this:

http://torrentspy.com/latest.asp
http://www.towerseek.org/search.jsp
http://www.isohunt.com/

That's it. Azureus and those three.

Oh my god I love Azureus. Thanks Scipio!

<a href="http://torrentreactor.net/">Torrent Reactor</a> is a pretty decent site. Between that and Shareaza, I find most of what I want. I just wish Audio Galaxy was still around. I think half my MP3 collection is from there.

I just started to use Napster. It's pretty good, monthly fee is low for the amount of songs you get. Plus, you can't go wrong with a company that advertises this way: www.napstergirl.com

I must agree.
That is a fine advetisement for Napster.

phex. no ads. open sourse. :) i like it. reminds me of kazaa but without all the spy/adware. phex

I prefer Best Buy or Circuit City ;)

Limewire is the shit. Ever download a song which turns to complete static after 10seconds? Limewire is set to look for that, cancel the download and tell you so you can look up another one. Hardly any music I can't find, no spyware, and people hardly ever cancel your download prematurely.

iTunes, you damned pirates.

Bittorrent and a good tracker dedicated to music.

I've been using AcquisitionX for OSX (now Universal Binary for Intel Macs). I love it...it ususally finds what I'm looking for, and the UI is simple and intuitive. No tracking/opening ports, configuring ul/dl speeds, none of that nonsense. Fire it up and get your music.

I've also used Kazaa Lite with good results. My p2p app of choice for XP. I tried morpheus once and is it a mess.

Bittorent is too complicated for me to configure. I can never get it to work consistently.

If I can't find what I'm looking for on acquisition, then ok I'll use iTunes. I think I've bought 3 songs in the last year. :)

to those that would state Best Buy, Circuit City, or any similar chain: You are a pawn.
Pirating may not feed artists, but buying from these sources hardly does either. At least pirates are only stealing once.
If you believe in supporting artists, then buy directly from them (everyone has a website now!), or at least from a local record store, where 50% of the record sale will go to the artist instead of %05 or less.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. Soulseek is the one and only for music (except for BT)

Limewire sucks big sweaty balls. Unreliable, and memory hogging.

is there a free way to use Usenet?

im really new at this whole thing, but I'm really curious of how it works

I've been using Soulseek and Bittorrent and it still works great, but there are always some really obscure artist that I'm always trying to get a hold of to know if I wanna buy their CD, and I'm hoping Usenet will be this way

No but the money DOES go back to the label to which the artist owes a great deal of money. Even when you buy from a "local record store" that doesn't mean the artist gets anymore (or less) than any other place. Most major artists don't sell through their own websites anyway.

If you're talking about indie artists that have put the record out with no advance from anyone then yeah ... they might get a larger percentage.

Where did you get the number 50% anyway? If I did all the legwork to get a record into a local shop I'd want at least 75 -85%. If I relied on a distribution company I'd probably get something like 50% or less (depends on how popular I am and how saavy I am when signing the contract).

But you go ahead and tell yourself that people who buy music legitimately through major chains are pawns ... anything you can do to justify your thievery.

Most major artists are in debt to the label ... the money goes to the label because the label agreed to loan money to the artist. The artist still owes the money regardless of whether the song was purchased at Best Buy or Uncle Shmoes Record Store or if people like you steal it from P2P sites.

Oh wait, here's your comeback for that, "Well, it's the artists fault for signing a deal with the devil. I'll continue stealing the music so we can 'break this vicious cycle' because I'm such a stand up guy."

(I apologize for the threadjack).

Someone recently told me about DC++. Hub Lists...hard as fuck for a computer illiterati such as myself to get a grip on but after a while I got the hang of it.
DL'ed Wolfmother's album and some Paul Oakenfold. EXCELLENT files.

I get the impression that this is bigger in Europe than in the US.

Google.

http://www.g2p.org/

Nothing better than a good bittorrent client with a nice tracker search engine. My favorite non-private combination is www.btjunkie.org along with www.utorrent.com to download the .torrents. IMHO uTorrent is as good as it'll ever get for windows bittorrent clients.

Soulseek ftw! Perfect for electronica heads. Lots and lots of vinyl rips.

bittorrent, but use the client Utorrent. It's basically azureus except doesnt need java, and the download is about 200kb. not to mention it takes up crap all memory to run, and does all functions.

Ok, I'm a dummy, I've got µTorrent but don't know how to use it.
Is there any hope for me?

Yea i use a combination of limewire and bitcomet... I can get about 95% of what i want. and if there's even one user online you're bound to get the file sooner or later.

okay, I am wondering about you guys who use soulseek for mp3's.. now I've gone to the site to download it,, and it they says something about paying for a membership... like 25 bucks for a "lifetime" now I have no problem paying this if I will get the music I want.. Have any of you guys paid for this... and if so what do you get with that?.. can you download most mp3's that you want? I usually listen to more current stuff, so its not like i'd be searching for off the wall tracks that are hard to find. Thanks for the info!

btjunkie is good for bitorrents.

dc++ rules!!


http://dcplusplus.sourceforge.net/

Is this still kosher or did it go out with the no warez rule?

nah, this is just links to websites and applications, I don't have a problem with it

Now with mod/admin seal of approval!

Soulseek Soulseek Soulseek!

Soulseek rocks my socks.

i never have any problems finding anything with it, i even found a rare Roach Motel album using soulseek.

I prefer my sneakernet. I've downloaded 200gigs of music from it in less than a week--that kind of bandwidth is unmatched by else I've tried. :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

I still prefer to pay for my music

Was that the question?

DC++ is the way to go for any of your p2p needs. Some hubs are elitists, wanting you to share an exhorbanent amount of files to enter, but most are low share, friendly, and helpful. As previously stated above, it looks to be more widely used in Europe, as alot of the hubs are Swedish, Czech, Finish etc..., but most are filled with English speakers, and they all contain American content as well as European, Asian, etc..

Yea. I'd also recommend azureus bittorrent. They have almost everything with much better reliability than limewire or kazza. Usenet is also good if you learn to use it, but it relies on requests so searching is difficult.

sorry, i didn't realize this was a thread where one couldn't express their opinions