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Posted: 10/15/2001 8:43:12 AM EDT

I had to send my laptop in for repairs, and the HD was replaced so I lost my collection of 800 MP3's(I had the important suff backed up, but not them)

My tastes run a bit on the unusual side, so I need a service that has a whole lot of users os I can find that hard to find stuff.

any ideas?

Posted: 10/15/2001 8:44:40 AM EDT

[#1]

[url]www.audiogalaxy.com[/url] has worked the best for me so far.

I am not crazy about the web-based interface however...

Posted: 10/15/2001 8:45:06 AM EDT

[#2]

Morpheus aka Kaaza is the best I've found. It's almost identical to Napster. Everything works great and all you have to do is download it for free.
[url]http://download.cnet.com/downloads/0-1896420-108-76172.html?bt.48575.185[/url]

Posted: 10/15/2001 8:46:12 AM EDT

[#3]

I really like limewire. I don't miss napster at all.

Posted: 10/15/2001 8:46:28 AM EDT

[#4]

Try [url]www.limewire.com[/url] It's part of the Gnutella network. and it works great for me.

Posted: 10/15/2001 8:48:30 AM EDT

[#5]

Morpheus from www.musiccity.com is awesome, and it supports formats other than WAV, such as VIDEO (:

Lot of file sharing of some cool flicks (:

(:

Posted: 10/15/2001 8:49:15 AM EDT

[#6]

Definetly Morpheus. I had switched to that even before napster got neutered.

Posted: 10/15/2001 8:51:33 AM EDT

[#7]

I guess I should add that limewire can support ANY type of file. You want a .zip? fine. Wav? AIF, MPG, anything you want. And you can do about 5 searches at the same time. I don't know what I'd do without it.

Posted: 10/15/2001 8:52:27 AM EDT

[#8]

I would have to say LimeWire.

It's more than just music though.

Video, Software, Pictures.

Alot of stuff to search. All FREE!!

Madmortigan

Posted: 10/15/2001 8:52:52 AM EDT

[#9]

Cypher, i had Kazaa for a long time, but then it just did not update it anymore and i went to the site and the english version wasn´t awailable, so i downloaded the Morpheus, looks the same program and works now.

Posted: 10/15/2001 8:53:27 AM EDT

[#10]

Try any of the Gnutella clients. I have found everything I needed, and the Gnutella network also allows trade of pretty much any type of file.

[url]http://gnutella.wego.com/[/url]

Av.

Posted: 10/15/2001 8:58:46 AM EDT

[#11]

I like Internet Relay Chat. Try #mp3oldies and #mp3jazzhouse on Dalnet. There are a lot of other channels too that I'm not familiar with.

Posted: 10/15/2001 9:10:06 AM EDT

[#12]

thanks guys, I just download morpheus and it rules.. all the hard to find stuff I have wanted is there!

Posted: 10/15/2001 9:40:35 AM EDT

[#13]

Limewire and Gnotella run nice.....vid files too.

Posted: 10/15/2001 9:41:39 AM EDT

[#14]

Originally Posted By Armed Scientist:
Definetly Morpheus. I had switched to that even before napster got neutered.

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Another vote for Morpheus

Posted: 10/15/2001 9:54:53 AM EDT

[#15]

Aimster

Posted: 10/15/2001 11:17:13 AM EDT

[#16]

Try Best Buy,they have CDs on sale this week[;)]

Posted: 10/15/2001 11:31:33 AM EDT

[#17]

[url]www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?id=44515[/url]

Posted: 10/15/2001 12:09:03 PM EDT

[#18]

800 mp3's and the time it took to acquire them didn't make them "important" enough to back up?

Those recomending KaZaa are not telling you that with it all mp3's are sub 128Kbps.

If you seek a higher bit rate and thus better quality KaZaa is to be avoided.

I also found it to be difficult to tailor it's settings,and it installs spyware even if you elect to leave it off at install.

Try WinMX.

Posted: 10/15/2001 12:10:55 PM EDT

[#19]

[url]www.winmx.com[/url]

Posted: 10/15/2001 12:16:08 PM EDT

[#20]

Quoted:
Try Best Buy,they have CDs on sale this week[;)]

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Best Buy is for victim disarmament. Just thought I'd let you know.

Posted: 10/15/2001 2:01:39 PM EDT

[#21]

Quoted:
800 mp3's and the time it took to acquire them didn't make them "important" enough to back up?

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yep

Lesson learned

Posted: 10/15/2001 4:13:24 PM EDT

[#22]

... Bearshare.com

... I have over 2200 songs in Mp3 format!

Posted: 10/15/2001 4:23:01 PM EDT

[#23]

Aimster is okay.

[url]www.aimster.com[/url]

Posted: 10/15/2001 4:26:49 PM EDT

[#24]

Morpheus gets my vote.. I was a loyal Napster fan until the end, then I went to Bearshare but it got too slow.. Morpheus is the way to go...I can download alot of songs within a matter of days or hours...

Posted: 10/15/2001 4:33:47 PM EDT

[#25]

www.kazaa.com

Its not like napster, its about 10 times better!!!! Im 16 too, so this is my area. Im one of those "music stealing bastards", and I tried and tested them all, and this ones the best.

Posted: 10/15/2001 4:48:58 PM EDT

[#26]

[b]

Quoted:
... Bearshare.com

... I have over 2200 songs in Mp3 format!

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[/b]

More spyware and questionable performance/results.

Posted: 10/15/2001 4:59:20 PM EDT

[#27]

Molitas,
Besides the obvious, what does spyware do?

Posted: 10/15/2001 5:10:48 PM EDT

[#28]

There are different purposes.
Generally it is to track your internet surfing habits or purchasing choices.

Posted: 10/15/2001 5:19:21 PM EDT

[#29]

Quoted:
There are different purposes.
Generally it is to track your internet surfing habits or purchasing choices.

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... I've been lucky, never recieved anything but clean files, filters haven't even found any spyware. The majority of my music came from Napster.
The nice thing about Bearshare is the if your host "pulls the plug" you can resume downloads without affecting the file.

... no worries

Posted: 10/15/2001 5:27:37 PM EDT

[#30]

Morpheus rules! I tried Audiogalaxy and Aimster and had no luck at all with either of them. Then the gang here at AR15.com came through for me as usual and told me about Morpheus. It's way better then Napster ever was. Anything you want is there...audio, video, text....anything. And if your host knocks your download off, it will resume the identical file from another host. I highly recommend it.

Posted: 10/15/2001 5:28:53 PM EDT

[#31]

audiogalaxy

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