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Old 02-06-2007, 05:38 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Ive tried limewire, morpheus, and kazaa. Anyone know of any other good programs.
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Old 02-06-2007, 06:18 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Uninstall that crap and start using bittorrent

Under Windows, the best bittorrent client (IMO) is µTorrent.

This site provides a decent guide on how to use bittorrent, although it's a bit older so they talk about using Azureus rather than µTorrent.
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Old 02-06-2007, 06:42 AM   #3 (permalink)
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I actually use torrents, but i like to have a p2p for when i just want that one song. Ive been using Bitlord, but i'll have to check out the one you suggested.
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Old 02-06-2007, 06:53 AM   #4 (permalink)
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Ah, well you might want to check out soulseek then. I haven't used it in awhile, but it's the most recent one I've used and liked. These days, with increasing hard drive space and bandwidth, I don't find myself bothering to download individual songs anymore
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Old 02-06-2007, 07:44 AM   #5 (permalink)
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Why don't you download torrents that list the album as individual tracks from which you could pick and choose the songs you want? Between the virus risk, the typically poor quality of the songs and the fact that too many p2p programs are malware there really isn't too much of a reason to use a p2p.

While you may be open to many of the same risks when downloading torrents - you'll be on the safer side if you use reputable sites to locate the torrents and download only after you've read several good comments on the particular torrent.

But if you're dead-set on using a p2p then from what I can remember Soulseek was decent.
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Old 02-06-2007, 08:30 AM   #6 (permalink)
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Very true, maybe Bitlord doesn't have this capability, but with µTorrent you can download only certain files from a torrent (provided they're not all packed up in a zip or rar).
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Old 02-06-2007, 08:34 AM   #7 (permalink)
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BitLord gives you the option right when you click the .torrent file.
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Old 02-06-2007, 11:06 AM   #8 (permalink)
 
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Why don't you download torrents that list the album as individual tracks from which you could pick and choose the songs you want? Between the virus risk, the typically poor quality of the songs and the fact that too many p2p programs are malware there really isn't too much of a reason to use a p2p.
There are many situations where traditional P2P is better than BitTorrent (which is, technically,. another P2P netowrk but we all know what you meant). For instance, try downloading the song Tarzan Boy by Baltimora.

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While you may be open to many of the same risks when downloading torrents - you'll be on the safer side if you use reputable sites to locate the torrents and download only after you've read several good comments on the particular torrent.
He'll also be safer if he uses a reputable P2P client.

Personally, I use KCeasy. It's a giFT client. That means that it uses a set of independent plugins to access various P2P networks, simultaneously. I have plugins for Ares, Gnutella, OpenFT and OpenFT networks.


By the way, this topic has been brought up here, time and time again. Did the original poster even try to do a search?
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Old 02-06-2007, 11:31 AM   #9 (permalink)
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Song #0476 from this torrent, which has 137 seeds and 357 leeches...
http://isohunt.com/torrent_details/13723826/baltimora

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Old 02-06-2007, 11:44 AM   #10 (permalink)
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ew bitlord... its add supported, bleh.

use azureus, http://azureus.sourceforge.net/

no ads, modular, java based. it does have a huge footprint though.
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Old 02-06-2007, 11:50 AM   #11 (permalink)
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Dilbert, have you tried µTorrent? I just switched to it recently after using Azureus for a few years. It has almost all the same necessary functionality, but uses WAY less memory.
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Old 02-06-2007, 12:03 PM   #12 (permalink)
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thats what I've heard, right now azureus resides on my server in the garage, I'm not concerned by the footprint, I'm concerned on hard drive access, azureus uses the hard drive less often, which preserves the drive health.
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Old 02-06-2007, 12:12 PM   #13 (permalink)
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Interesting, I didn't know µTorrent accessed the hard drive so much
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Song #0476 from this torrent, which has 137 seeds and 357 leeches...
http://isohunt.com/torrent_details/13723826/baltimora

Okay, so that wasn't a good example. How about Inventory by Meryn Cadell. Maybe that will demonstrate my point...
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Old 02-06-2007, 02:56 PM   #15 (permalink)
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Oh, i never thought of that. i could just pick the one song i want from the full album torrent. I'll just try that for a while cause i like torrents better. Thanks for all the info everyone.
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Old 02-06-2007, 03:25 PM   #16 (permalink)
 
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Interesting, I didn't know µTorrent accessed the hard drive so much
A lot of BitTorrent clients implement large file buffers, presumably because they don't trust that the OS's file buffers are adequate. I can only suppose that µTorrent does no such thing...
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Old 02-06-2007, 04:18 PM   #17 (permalink)
 
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i use PHEX. well mostly for the gf when she wants 1 song but ya, phex is great, open source and theres no ads.
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Old 02-06-2007, 07:38 PM   #18 (permalink)
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its not that µTorrent doesn't, but i have spent a while tweaking azureus just the way i like it for hard drive performance.
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Old 02-07-2007, 07:00 AM   #19 (permalink)
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Utorrent is a great client but I'm considering switching over to Azureus simply because of Utorrents questionable partnership with a subsidiary of Retspan - a company well known for their shady anti-piracy tactics. The fact that the client is completely free and remains closed-source doesn't help to easy my suspicions either.

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Strigeus (the developer of U Torrent) denies that he is helping PeerFactor fight the P2P community by providing the coding.
“The agreement says that the software will be used to distribute legal content over the internet. In my understanding, everything in our agreement says that it will be used for downloading legal content,” Strigeus told Slyck News.
Although Strigeus rejects that he knew PeerFactor’s history of attacking and disrupting P2P networks, he defends working with the company now he does know.
“Just because I sell cleaning services to Microsoft doesn't mean I like Windows.”
Wiki: Utorrent Controversy / Slyck News: U Torrent Signs Contract...
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