Best Peer2Peer File sharing program? Which do you use?

[Trizzle]

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?




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[TimStevens]

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

[Colonel Lingus]

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.

[This Ink Is Used]

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.

[Nightwing]

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

[ColinL]

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.

[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??

[WRX300]

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

[cavymeister]

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??

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

[m750]

and my local library

[Dr. WOT]

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

[BAM]

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!

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

[bunot]

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

[Dr. WOT]

No!!!2!!

[MattDell]

I use XFactor (Mac).

[mexicanpizza]

IRC + www.packetnews.com

[ImprezaRSinCT]

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

[Attila_Tha_Hun]

If you're having problems with corrupted mp3's, there's a program called MP3 Shieldthat 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.

[BeeGee]

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

[sleek]

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

[Christoff]

soulseek is the best for music, hands down!

[supertikkigod]

DC++

[huckedup16]

Why Trizzle dont Ares?

[Damien]

Why Trizzle no Soulseek?

-Damien

[Hagbard]

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