how about itunes or emusic?

Heaven forbid you PAY for your music.

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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

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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 !

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

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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...

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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)?

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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.

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