Napster

[Embattle]

To shed a shit load of users by the looks of it http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/20428.html

 

[Testin da Cable]

aye saw it
oh well end of an era or something

 

[Wij]

Yup. Absolutely bummed by the music industry

/me fires up Limewire...

 

[old.Kurt_Angle]

I only ever used it for old tunes anyway.

 

[old.^S0LIDUS^]

WinMix is much better

 

[Will]

People have started using gnutella instead.
/me checks Bearshare

 

[old.Kez]

Kazaa / Musiccity (One and the same?) are clearly far superior to the wankness that is WinMX (with its utterly gash client) - gnutella I've not actually really used since the original gnutella client (when there was one) ...
musiccity has er, 239471 GB on it at current, music and videos mostly. rah.

 

[old.Davehart]

Well, old napster user its time to move to another galaxy.

www.AudioGalaxy.com possibley? thats pretty good.

 

[old.^S0LIDUS^]

I disagree with Kez.

 

[Embattle]

I use www.limewire.com

 

[old.Kez]

limewire is one of the better gnutella clients from what I understand?
I'd consider using it if I wasn't so happy using morpheus

(incidently, I care very little who disagrees with me over WinMX, the fact is, its got fuckall on it that i want, whereas morpheus has huge numbers of what I want, guess which I went for)

:/

 

[Will]

Bearshare is pretty good too.

http://www.bearshare.com

 

[Wij]

i downloaded morpheus today and couldn't find fuck all :/

 

[*Exor*]

WinMX is appalling.

 

[old.Kez]

WinMX wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't for:

• The gash client
• The idea of connecting to multiple servers (networks)* when having it all stored on one central virtual server would work much better (p2p, morpheus like)

Having to connect to many different networks to be able to have a good range of [whatever] is just inefficient and is quite annoying. However morpheus does it (I've not really bothered looking into how it shares the p2p protocol whatnots) - I like it.

* networks being opennap, ogg vorbis, et al.

 

[Testin da Cable]

what do you think of Ogg Vorbis btw?
More accurately I mean the player and the format of the audiofile
not the filesharing network.

 

[Wij]

You've completely lost me

 

[Testin da Cable]

damn, I thought I put you in my handbag =P

 

[old.Kez]

I've not actually looked at either the format or player, is it worth my while?

(if it encodes better than mp3 etc, then I'll be abusing it for cd ripping)

 

[Testin da Cable]

aye better quality, yet smaller than mp3.
iirc winamp already can play them, and they have their own player. also the algorithm is non-properiatory. It's still beta tho, both the encoder and the player, so not optimal yet.

 

[Will]

But the joy of p2p is that there is no central server to be sued/shut down like Napster.

 

[Wij]

They'll demand ISPs block ports next

 

[stu]

Unfortunately Gnutella doesn't scale very well, so the more users that get on there, the slower and slower it will get. Someone who did a lot more research than me (wish I could find the article) worked out that if Gnutella got as big as Napster did in its heyday, a simple song search would generate almost 1.5GB of traffic. Nice.

I'll see if I can find the original article, it made for very interesting reading.

 

[Wij]

we'll just take yer word for it thx

 

[old.Morpheus]

Originally posted by Wij
i downloaded morpheus today and couldn't find fuck all :/

And I woke up today with half my brain missing. You fucking bastard.

 

[Wij]

/me plays with Morpeus a bit more...