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for general music, defently WinMX : 100 X smarter than DC++
but you cant find the stuff you find on the hub there....

and of course the most advanced , smart, and futurish networks are
edonkey\emule\overnet

Re: The best file sharing program is (or was):

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Originally posted by Cosmic Guy What's in your opinion the best file sharing program ever?

AudioGalaxy. No doubt about it.

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winMX was my personal favourite back before music city switched to morpheus (the trojan). music city use to use the napster protocols so you can connect using napster+napigator or winmx. while napster+napigator was okay, winMX was better since winMX lets you connect to multiple hubs at the same time.

this was when napster was in danger of being shut down so there were TONS of people trading files while they still could. sometimes you had to wait for a few minutes before being able to connect to one of music city's hubs.

was audiogalaxy that thing where you had to use your browser with the AG satellite? that was an absolute piece of shit. sure, you can find stuff on it but the software was junk. you can't see bitrates or the actual filenames which was useless if you want to get a complete album from the same ripper.

Audiogalaxy was the bomb, but DC has compensated very well since its death !

Without a doubt ag, but currently: soulseek & dc++

I'll be straight up with you guys on this..

I don't think any of you had a really good opportunity to use napster in it's glory days.

It is and will always be the original and the bestx10 p2p protocol when it was in it's peak.

I'm guessing many of you were using napster in it's decline period which is leaving a bad taste in your mouth...

winmx did everything napster could do and more. i agree with your other comments though. back in the days of "napster" (by "napster", i mean the open nap hubs), it was the only choice of filesharing so you could find everything there. it's sort of like when ICQ was the only IM software.

what exactly is the question asking though? the quality of the SOFTWARE in itself or the general quality of the software's resources (eg. quality of files shared + users)?

Personally, I'd say nothing could ever come close to Audiogalaxy. In April 2001 when I started to find less and less on Napster, I decided to give Audiogalaxy a go after hearing very mixed opinions of it. Initially, it was somewhat different to how I had expected it to be and came as a little bit of a shock and I didn't like it at all. However, after getting the hang of it, it really grew on me. I found 99% of what I was looking for. Not only that, but lots of rare stuff that you couldn't even find on CD or vinyl. I thought it was great that it displayed tracks that were offline and you could queue them and it would send you them as soon as the next user with it came online. Sometimes it took hours, days, weeks or months but in the end I always ended up receiving it. It's something I really miss in any other programs. I also liked the way you clicked on the titles of the tracks and then could choose a bitrate instead of displaying a million versions of the one file.

However, since Audiogalaxy went down it has really motivated me to go out and buy the records I'm looking for which is always a good thing.

About Napster, to me it was a rather poor piece of software made good by the thounsands of users and the fact that it was the first real file sharing application to ever take off. The lack of a resume feature was somewhat irritating as I ended up with a million "Transfer Error"'s.

AG was pimp back in the day. You could find anything on there. And i remember DJ Kiff's Rave Nation w/ 3000+ members and the spam along with it

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Originally posted by chewd0g I'll be straight up with you guys on this.. I don't think any of you had a really good opportunity to use napster in it's glory days. It is and will always be the original and the bestx10 p2p protocol when it was in it's peak. I'm guessing many of you were using napster in it's decline period which is leaving a bad taste in your mouth...

Napster had many problems. First, each server was limited to only 6000 or so users, and the servers weren't connected to each other.
Second, it was centralized, and cost many millions of dollars to run. No VC company will ever invest in the fileshares now that they get sued daily. Third, it had no built in support for non mp3 files, and workarounds were difficult. Fourth, the lack of checksum and weak file resume system meant tons of audio glithes, some of which I am STILL sorting thru.

1. Napster
2. Audiogalaxy
3. Direct Connect (Dc++)
4. KaZaA
5. Hotline
6. Soul Seek
-reZ

i think nowadays all prog can do the same
the only prob with the community on each
and right now the dc and the soulseek has the best with all ya trance lova dudes

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Originally posted by obs you can't see bitrates or the actual filenames which was useless if you want to get a complete album from the same ripper.

You were able to see bitrates if you clicked on the filename on the search page, rather than just queueing it with the little satellite icon. I don't think there was a way to get it from the same ripper, tho.

AG was my favorite, mainly because I hate these programs that take up so many of my system resources and slow down everything. AG never did that, it didn't flash lots of annoying ads at me, and it rarely froze.

Now I do all of my filesharing thru AIM. I've got enough friends that do heavy downloading that I don't need to anymore.

AG

It had every song ever on it...

Napster comes in 2nd cause it was the 1st of the great p2p....

DC is the next best thing for edm since AG died...

Back when Napster was around I would have said that. But then when Napster went down and Audiogalaxy was around, damn was that a good program. So AG gets my vote.

whatever one i can find music on is the best, so currently DC wins

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Originally posted by Flotser for general music, defently WinMX : 100 X smarter than DC++ but you cant find the stuff you find on the hub there.... and of course the most advanced , smart, and futurish networks are edonkey\emule\overnet

You obviously don't understand the application for DC hubs.. they are meant to propogate files throughout a *small* community. WinMX, KaZaa, and eMule are all designed for massive file sharing, hence the multi-part downloads, queue's etc. This stuff isn't really practical however when you have ... 400 people on a network. KaZaa and WinMX in particular are pigs..

good luck finding any *semi* rare files on a huge network like kazaa/winmx, 2 things are working against you. For starters, the search methodology for those 2 programs makes it so a lot of information can easily be overlooked (kazaa in particular) meaning you might not even find a file, even though it existed and was being shared by quite a few people, and chances are, if you *do* find it, the people that do have it are going to have full queue's from other, more common files. eMule solves this problem entirely by giving rare files a queue push and using a server search method. The protocol itself however has tons of overhead, tends to be clunky (high latency between transactions) and really rapes your connection (usues a lot of incoming/outgoing connections up).

DC++ OTOH offers very easy access to rare files (communities/hubs) the search and transfer protocols also have practically no overhead, AFAIK there isn't really a queue implementation so it also bypasses the 'huge wait' for the most part. The downside is no multi source transfers (which is basically leaching anyway) which makes transfers usually a magnitude or so slower.

anyways, for sharing music i'll have to agree AG was the best.. i loved groups.. plus the web based interface rocked.

Back in the days when aG was still around it was like heaven. I still remember all the shit I got that was so damn rare.

I only use the hub and a bit of FTP which I don't anyone has mentioned yet.

- Present: DC
- Yesterday: Audiogalaxy
- Before: NAPSTER<<< CLASSIC, the best of the best.

1) audiogalaxy (man I was in my classroom, and spend whole the time searching and queuing tracks in it, so if I came home I just had to connect, best prog for sure)
2) direct connect (best atm)
3) Soulseek (good for livesets)

Without a doubt WinMX i used it when AG was still up and it was fucking good, but when AG went down the trance exploded on it, it is without a doubt the best file sharing progam ive come across.Ive tryed soul seek and Kazaar but they never find as much matches as winMX does, well ive said my peace
-Later-

piss easy, audiogalaxy!

definately audiogalaxy

now: dc++ is very good

ocassionly use soulseek too.. but dc++ seems the best at the moment

actually i find more stuff using plain old fashion ftp and downloading from websites. friends and stuff like online forums are great resources. i'm sure people on irc can back me up on this : ).

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