Napster Alternative CuteMX (better than Gnutella)

[Buuri]

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Great!

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[Wombat]

I really like Gnutella. Also, I read from After Dawn (one of my AvantGo channels) that CuteMX was going to shut down after Napster was issued the injunction. No word yet on whether or not they will stay up now that the injunction is overturned.

Also, Gnutella is nice because it's a distributed system, and thus harder (but contrary to popular believe, not impossible) to take down.


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[McRhea]

Hey guys, what about Gnotella?

Here's the link...

<a href="http://gnotella.nerdherd.net/">Gnotella</a>

I've not installed either one of the programs listed, but I was just wondering if this is the same as Gnutella... A link on Gnutella's site sent me to Gnotella... weird.

(This is an Edit) Hmm... this site didn't like my giving the link to the index.html... so just click on that pic you see, and it'll take you right in.

[This message has been edited by McRhea (edited 31 July 2000).]

[ahartman]

Just read that CuteMX is off the market for MP3 trading until the Napster thing is decided...
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200...e.1005.thed.ni

[Himself]

Just tried Gnotella. Useless and buggy, spent an hour monkeying with it and I have 0 files for my time, I counted them twice to be sure.

[Pneumatic]

Gnutella and Gnotella are variations of the same program. Check out http://gnutella.wego.com/go/wego.pag...97&action=view
(long link) for the different variations.
From what I gather they all work on the same engine, just have different features and options. I've not had much luck with them as of late. I can get on but when I try to search it takes forever and usually doesn't bear much fruit. My latest discovery (since CuteMX seems to be defunct) is "Napigator". It is a list of servers that you can tap into using the Napster program. You just open Napigator, chose a server from the list (there are a bunch), and double click it. It opens Napster and connects on its own to the server you have chosen. I was in the Napster program, running through Napigator, getting music like crazy without ever getting onto Napsters server.
It is a LOT faster and mor effective than Gnutella. So when they shut down Napster there are still ways to use it. Get it at http://www.napigator.com/ They explain it a lot better than I can. I just know that it works.

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[Sicna]

Just try Scour Exchange

Works like a charm. Used it all night long to find songs for my mother in law.

Even hard to find songs! And since Napster doesn't seem to be working right (all files seems to be down), it's the best I ever used.

Usually you get like 13 TERAbytes of mp3s, mpeg etc.

Go try it www.scour.com

Sicna

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[Pneumatic]

I tried it out and you're right, Scour rocks. I think I will keep them both around (Scour and Napigator). Between the 2 of them there probably isn't a song made that you can't find! I love technology.

[skeoch]

i think napigator is good but i havent seen scour yet isnt that just for films?

[Chris B]

Nope.... Scour is for video, audio and pics. And I have to agree... It kicks ass

Personally I gave up on gnutella. Just couldn´t seem to get the damn thing working whatsoever

[Pneumatic]

WOW! I didn't even realize there were movies to be downloaded! I downloaded "The Patriot" and "Big Momma's House"! You know why? Because I can! That is VERY cool. It is kinda funny though. I started downloading "The X-Men" and I previewed it as it was downloading. It looked like someone had trained a video camera on the screen at a theater. Not the highest quality but it was still watchable (I guess if you were a shut in or didn't want to spend the money, of course if you have a connection that is capapble of downloading a whole movie in less than 8.6 years you are already spending some money). Anyway I see that my "Top Gun" download is almost done, so gotta go!

[Himself]

How do you view those files? I found divx, but these avi files don't work with it.

[Gurm]

Well, if they're DIVX encoded AVI's then you need the DIVX codec (available from http://divx.dtw.cc). If they're .dat or .vob, you need to rename them as mpeg files or burn them to a videocd.

If they're .mov files then of course you need Quicktime.

If they're .rm files you're just better off not downloading them.

- Gurm

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[Himself]

Thanks, but I already have divx installed, I was wondering whether these people are using modified versions of divx. ASF divx files work fine, just avi files won't go, do the avi files have to be 100% complete before you view them? I know some are using modified clients and trying to access my computer outside of the scour exchange program's ports, zonealarm come in handy there. I'd use the web interface but that doesn't work.

Basically, as usual it's a pain in the ass, takes too long, not because of my connection either, files never complete, most people are so stupid as to offer incomplete files to begin with (their download dir and upload dirs are the same), the quality sucks, the idiots add their marks to each frame, etc. It's not worth my time. If I were to pay myself by the hour I'd have been able to buy the DVD several times over.

Great service for mp3s though, the woman can get all the dance mixes she likes.. Even there, there are some boneheads who rip audio tracks in burst mode, which means skips are common. Bah! Looks like they reinvented LPs.

[Gurm]

1. You need the "modified" version of DIVX available from the site I listed above. No other version of the DIVX codec will work for those .AVI's at the present time.

2. Yes, the AVI's need to be 100% complete, since header and format information is apparently stored at the end of the file.

- Gurm

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