So i have used iMesh for a couple years and it really worked well. Lately though it's been flooded with corrupted mp3's (intentionally distributed by RIAA methinks) and it's tough to download any halfway popular song without 3 or 4 tries to find one that is real. The bad news I suspect may be that because the imesh/kazaa network is/was one of the most popular, many peoples collections may now contain a bunch of those garbage songs and even on other networks it will be a problem. Pretty wiley plan by those damn RIAA peoples.

I have direct connect and eDonkey also which are nice for larger downloads, but not as convenient for songs.

What do you all use and like?




IBJustGoBuyItYouCheapBastage

IBWTLW

I buy CDs. Better than dealing with spyware and corrupted tunes... oh and it's legal too :p

K-Lite is the best running. It is also plagued with the RIAA crap now though. I have actually got more mp3s from trading with people over band boards than I ever did with the p2p stuff.


C.L.

OMG, I hate corrupted mp3's so much..

some songs have taken me 9 different tries to find a good one.

Some I get lucky and it's good out the bat, is it the RIAA? So annoying.

I use "Shareaza". it connects to gnutella 1 & 2, and e-mule/e-donkey. no spyware, and a pretty good interface.

these days, it's almost exclusively usenet (newsgroups) or retail purchases for me. I have winmx and .torrent loaded but don't use them often. I just don't get onesy-twosies that often. I want the whole cd most of the time, and I usually pay for it.

Sorry all I have to say is when I first skimmed the thread title I saw:

"Best Beer2Beer sharing program" ... and was like ooh and huh??

:lol:

I saw this on /. the other day:

http://www.ratajik.com/stationripper/

very very cool have about 6gb of music I have to wade through from the past 2 days of downloading...

FYI: its a shoutcast streamripper...as long as you find a 128+kbps stream the quality aint so bad

Originally posted by Mencius01
Sorry all I have to say is when I first skimmed the thread title I saw:

"Best Beer2Beer sharing program" ... and was like ooh and huh??

:lol:


!!!!!one!!!!!1111!!!!!thirty-six!!!

http://freethemes.forthnet.gr/images/shots/wallpaper/cash-640x480.jpg
and my local library

HA! I'm glad my P2P of choice doesn't even make the list. It's good to fly under the radar! :banana:

Originally posted by Dr. WOT
HA! I'm glad my P2P of choice doesn't even make the list. It's good to fly under the radar! :banana:

What is it? Tell me!!!!!!one!!!!!!!!won!!11

i'm trying out eMule....i don't know if it's the same as eDonkey.

No!!!2!! :disco:

I use XFactor (Mac). ;)

IRC + www.packetnews.com

I have access to a few 0day FTPs, but I rarely d/l mp3s anymore unless it's something I really want.

if I'm looking for something and it's not on those sites, I'll just find someone who has it and have them rip it for me

If you're having problems with corrupted mp3's, there's a program called MP3 Shield (http://download.com.com/3000-2166-10260763.html)that will automatically detect corrupted mp3's as you are downloading them. I've been using it for a while now and it works flawlessly with Kazaa Lite.

A good way to avoid corrupted mp3's is to see how many sources are sharing the same file. The more that are sharing, the more likely you will download a part of the corrupted file from one of the sources. I always try to pick files that only 2 or 3 people share.

I use Limewire...I was lucky to get 1kb/sec with Shareaza, no idea what the problem was.

lime wire, i think its the best. but the do not share option doesnt work so i just move my stuff to a different folder

soulseek is the best for music, hands down!

DC++

Why Trizzle dont Ares?

Why Trizzle no Soulseek?

-Damien

It's not p2p, but usenet is teh rocking!

:alien:

SOULSEEK!

Why Trizzle don't hire a lawyer and wait for the RIAA and MPAA to send a friendly letter?

:D

I got an email from one of the movie companies one time... i quit sharing movies :) I wanna say it was Paramount but that doesn't seem right, i can't remember which one it was now though.

Originally posted by Trizzle
I got an email from one of the movie companies one time... i quit sharing movies :) I wanna say it was Paramount but that doesn't seem right, i can't remember which one it was now though.

Originally posted by semabe
Why Trizzle don't hire a lawyer and wait for the RIAA and MPAA to send a friendly letter?

:D

One down, one to go.....

(Just kidding. Maybe.)

Originally posted by AFSilverstar
SOULSEEK!

shut up people. under the radar...

iTunes..bitch! :cool:

i don't d/l music anymore, not much, and i don't listen to much 'mainstream music' (i listen to techno mostly) and i buy that stuff for some reason...

i use kazaa lite for PORN and that is it

Originally posted by 3ztt
shut up people. under the radar...

:confused:

Okay, I realize this is old but I figured it deserved a bump to see what people use for P2P other than torrent clients. Ares is basically dead, Limewire is garbage... anybody?

newznet for 200-500 kbs downloads. But it's not exactly p2p