Glad you can, because I can't find anything-actually, correction- I can find files (open window in browser and searches the audiogalaxy site) and the songs are all blocked!! What;s the point? Trashed it and back to LimeWire.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Foreign stuff and techno are not blocked so it's good for that. Because on limewire, it's hard to get a good connection to another country, but AG gets good connections for you and makes it resumable.
Awsome! Now if only the DivX player for mac gets fixed so that sound works... man, my powerbook would be my own portable movie player (since I can hook it up to the TV, but the Apple DVD player wont work when hooked up).
I don't know if this stuff has been discussed since this thread - but I've now migrated over to OpenAG X 1.1.1, and, honestly, it's pretty great. At least up to par with AG's satellite, but without scary spyware stuff, I think. . .
Sputnix is still fine, and the pro features look alright, but OpenAG X went from aggrivating to very pleasing.
Wow, is this sad or what!? How many different protocols/apps are there! All we want is our damn music, and occasion warez/movies/other. iSwipe is a kickass concept. In fact, using it a few months ago I was blown away. It found stuff on every protocol, LOTS of stuff on OpenNap. The way it intelligently operates on its and repeats the search is WOW. This is what we are looking for. Unfortunately, the particular drawback this app has, is... it doesn't WORK. At all. No files successfully downloaded, hours spent. Anyone else try iSwipe? This could be the killer app for sharing! Especially if it someday morphs into MORE than just mere downloading and leeching like Pitbull, but a full fledged interface to EVERY protocol. Imagine, no more shitty Carracho or Hotline clients to deal with, and since lots of these have instant messenging built in, it's like Fire. Hey, I know this is weird, but I'm tired, and just got this idea. Imagine, iSwipe is the Fire of downloading. What if this company (this seems to be all they do) allied with Fire to make -one- App!
Ever since Napster died, I haven't been able to find a good client with reliable downloads and a HUGE selection, with the right mix of indie/techno mixes, and the latest pop. The numbers look great, but I haven't had any success with anything other than Napster for music. Search by bitrate is always a must, anything less than 320 is jarring, and I wish people would switch to dang MP3Pro or MP4 or something.
My PC friends tell me about Morpheus all the time though? <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />
LimeWire in my experience on an iMac 500 was *barf bag* bad. Couldn't find anything, or finish dl's. Once again, perhaps these new protocols aren't as good as Napster? (ouch!)
If you can't stand anything lower than a 320 bit rate on your mp3's, then I don't think you're going to find very much.
Seriously, if you can't stand anything less than 320 bits, you should scrap the idea of listening to anything digital and go all-vinyl. Personally, I'm fine with 192, but I'll go lower for stuff I can't find at that rate that I really want (don't worry folks, I still buy a lot of music). 128 is just aweful, though. Terrible.
AG's available music is huge, and you can search by bit rate. It doesn't have a lot of the mainstream stuff, but on the whole, I think it has way more than any other standard.
Macsatellite gets the job done, but it's not great. They seem spiteful towards the AG community - sending in false share information and not letting anyone DL files from you. Plus, it takes forever to index your files and login, which is confusing considering that it just sends false info anyway. It can totally bog down my system, too. Unfortunately, it is the only OS 9 client.
Eh Morph is old news, a washed up has been. The latest version really really sucks. The up and commer, which is exactly like Morph was in the good old days is Grokster. It'll find anything and everything you will ever need.
A friend of mine downloads 3-4 feature movies off of it in a day. I got Lotr, Saving Private Ryan, In the Bedroom all in the 30min-4hour range. Its awsome.
What's iSwipe? *mock gasp* It's what should be bought be a bigger company or something. This thing will make an impact, once it actually downloads stuff. And yes, I was trying from Dartmouth's T3++, so I dunno why it doesn't seem to work. So, anyone else tried iSwipe?
iSwipe seems to do alright for me. I especially like the search and DL by album option. Anybody know if you can configure that to only DL at a particular bit rate?
any of you guys ever use windows? morpheus is shit, they got kicked out of the fast track network and they're just a gnutella client now, we already have a few of those ... you want to file share? get yourself os x and
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Glad you can, because I can't find anything-actually, correction- I can find files (open window in browser and searches the audiogalaxy site) and the songs are all blocked!! What;s the point? Trashed it and back to LimeWire.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Foreign stuff and techno are not blocked so it's good for that. Because on limewire, it's hard to get a good connection to another country, but AG gets good connections for you and makes it resumable.
Sputnix is still fine, and the pro features look alright, but OpenAG X went from aggrivating to very pleasing.
Ever since Napster died, I haven't been able to find a good client with reliable downloads and a HUGE selection, with the right mix of indie/techno mixes, and the latest pop. The numbers look great, but I haven't had any success with anything other than Napster for music. Search by bitrate is always a must, anything less than 320 is jarring, and I wish people would switch to dang MP3Pro or MP4 or something.
My PC friends tell me about Morpheus all the time though? <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />
LimeWire in my experience on an iMac 500 was *barf bag* bad. Couldn't find anything, or finish dl's. Once again, perhaps these new protocols aren't as good as Napster? (ouch!)
Seriously, if you can't stand anything less than 320 bits, you should scrap the idea of listening to anything digital and go all-vinyl. Personally, I'm fine with 192, but I'll go lower for stuff I can't find at that rate that I really want (don't worry folks, I still buy a lot of music). 128 is just aweful, though. Terrible.
AG's available music is huge, and you can search by bit rate. It doesn't have a lot of the mainstream stuff, but on the whole, I think it has way more than any other standard.
<strong>Thanks for the info everyone. What do you think about iSwipe?</strong><hr></blockquote>
What's iSwipe?
A friend of mine downloads 3-4 feature movies off of it in a day. I got Lotr, Saving Private Ryan, In the Bedroom all in the 30min-4hour range. Its awsome.
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What's iSwipe? *mock gasp* It's what should be bought be a bigger company or something. This thing will make an impact, once it actually downloads stuff. And yes, I was trying from Dartmouth's T3++, so I dunno why it doesn't seem to work. So, anyone else tried iSwipe?
Iv gotten alot of FFU episodes, 2 movies Alot of genesis / phil collins Music videos and mp3s off of it...
-Owl
1 carracho
2 direct connect
3 edonkey
in that order.
bow down to os x and all its terminal p2p glory