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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: diamondgeezer on March 30, 2004, 01:38:17 pm

Title: Kazaa Alternatives
Post by: diamondgeezer on March 30, 2004, 01:38:17 pm: Hokey dokey, the 'perfectly legal' file I'm chasing isn't available on Klite, so everyone throw names of alternative p2ps at me :)
Title: Kazaa Alternatives
Post by: Fineus on March 30, 2004, 01:39:07 pm: Morpheus. E-Mule.

Uh.. etc.
Title: Kazaa Alternatives
Post by: Thorn on March 30, 2004, 01:41:46 pm: WinMX...
uh..
mIRC :p
Title: Kazaa Alternatives
Post by: diamondgeezer on March 30, 2004, 01:44:32 pm: Well yes, those are the usual suspects. But P2P aps are springing up all over the place now, each claiming to be better than the last :)
Title: Kazaa Alternatives
Post by: Carl on March 30, 2004, 01:44:41 pm: iMesh!
Title: Kazaa Alternatives
Post by: kasperl on March 30, 2004, 01:44:54 pm: PM to me with the filename....

uh, DirectConnect
Title: Kazaa Alternatives
Post by: Zarax on March 30, 2004, 01:45:03 pm: Your favourite software or movie shop? :p
Title: Kazaa Alternatives
Post by: diamondgeezer on March 30, 2004, 01:56:44 pm: Strangely, Kazaa yielded the required MPerr... legal file after I threatened it with eMule and WinMX

[EDIT] I say, someone calling himself 'palkssays' is downloading pron off me. Good for him
Title: Kazaa Alternatives
Post by: Zarax on March 30, 2004, 01:58:27 pm: Ever heard about intelligent software? :p
Title: Kazaa Alternatives
Post by: kasperl on March 30, 2004, 02:06:21 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Zarax
Ever heard about intelligent software? :p

an oxymoron if i ever heard one.....
Title: Kazaa Alternatives
Post by: diamondgeezer on March 30, 2004, 02:07:45 pm: Specially with the MS link in his sig

Anyway, next question - how would I go about capturing or otherwise ripping a WAV or whatever from a streaming Real thingy?
Title: Kazaa Alternatives
Post by: Stunaep on March 30, 2004, 02:08:19 pm: I've found E-Mule to be the best for d/l-ing large files. A lot of rare stuff it has, and d/l's really quickly
Title: Kazaa Alternatives
Post by: kasperl on March 30, 2004, 02:16:33 pm: Quote
Originally posted by diamondgeezer
Specially with the MS link in his sig

Anyway, next question - how would I go about capturing or otherwise ripping a WAV or whatever from a streaming Real thingy?

Real Audio has been invented by the devil, and on one of his headache days.

Bottom line: sure like hell not legally, and illegally, please, please PM when you find out.

off course, hooking a cable from your sound output to you mic port and recording with the sound recorder of windows is an option......
Title: Kazaa Alternatives
Post by: Zarax on March 30, 2004, 02:25:57 pm: Hmm... let's see what i can say without getting illegal...
Take a look into the Nimo codec pack, you will find tools for both QT and RM (after installing rename the latter as .avi)...
You will still need something like VirtualDUB to encode the thing...
Title: Kazaa Alternatives
Post by: Shrike on March 30, 2004, 02:47:50 pm: The torrents must flow!
Title: Kazaa Alternatives
Post by: diamondgeezer on March 30, 2004, 02:49:33 pm: I so can't work BT, much as I'd like to be able to
Title: Kazaa Alternatives
Post by: Fineus on March 30, 2004, 03:11:04 pm: Oh it works, but it's a little hit and miss as to whether you can find what you need, and whether you'll be able to pick up a decent transfer rate after that.
Title: Kazaa Alternatives
Post by: Zarax on March 30, 2004, 03:18:55 pm: Nothing can beat winmx if you get the right open nap servers...
Title: Kazaa Alternatives
Post by: 01010 on March 30, 2004, 03:19:22 pm: Soulseek has been brilliant for me.
Title: Kazaa Alternatives
Post by: Shrike on March 30, 2004, 04:29:04 pm: Quote
Originally posted by diamondgeezer
I so can't work BT, much as I'd like to be able to
Are you on dialup?
Title: Kazaa Alternatives
Post by: diamondgeezer on March 30, 2004, 04:42:34 pm: You insult my honour, sir
Title: Kazaa Alternatives
Post by: Fineus on March 30, 2004, 04:51:10 pm: That's a yes.
Title: Kazaa Alternatives
Post by: ZylonBane on March 30, 2004, 05:54:47 pm: Quote
Originally posted by kasperl
off course, hooking a cable from your sound output to you mic port and recording with the sound recorder of windows is an option......
And an incredibly stupid option, if you have a soundcard made in the last decade or so. Just open up the volume control panel and set your recording input to the Wave Out device (or whatever variation on the name your sound card calls it).
Title: Kazaa Alternatives
Post by: Omniscaper on March 30, 2004, 07:28:28 pm: overnet.com
Title: Kazaa Alternatives
Post by: Bobboau on March 30, 2004, 07:32:37 pm: overnet
Title: Kazaa Alternatives
Post by: Windrunner on March 31, 2004, 01:19:59 am: Have you tried limewire
Title: Kazaa Alternatives
Post by: Nico on March 31, 2004, 01:29:39 am: Quote
Originally posted by Kalfireth
Oh it works, but it's a little hit and miss as to whether you can find what you need, and whether you'll be able to pick up a decent transfer rate after that.

pb is, anything that is more than a year old is basically impossible to find.
Title: Kazaa Alternatives
Post by: beatspete on March 31, 2004, 04:34:08 am: Winmx is a bit pants I find. Its much easier to find what I want on Klite, and winmx downloads generally take ages to complete.

Personally I recon napster was the best. It was simple and effective to use, didnt spend any time arsing about with multiple download sources (which generally dont do much). I thought its manual approach to selecting and monitering your downloads was much better, that doesnt seem to be the way things are going these days. WinXP syndrome.
Title: Kazaa Alternatives
Post by: Zarax on March 31, 2004, 04:37:39 am: If you do not use the winmx standard servers it's much like the old napster.
By using the open nap server you have to do most things manually, and if you are lucky you'll find the fiber networks, where you can bring some real work even for a T1... I experienced downloads up to 300kbps using them (yes, i've got a T1 :p)...