Peer 2 Peer

[Assassin]

Well i always used Ares for music related stuff. But recently i can't get it to work...its says 'connecting' but never actually connects. Dunno why that is. and the fucking 'ares vista' version which isn't free.

[ChaosK]

I use Limewire pro and have no problems with viruses...but I only use it for music and when a song I know is 3min long and shouldn't be more than 5-6mb at most, and I see one that's 20, I'm not gonna download it...

[Buffalobiian]

I use Limewire pro and have no problems with viruses...but I only use it for music and when a song I know is 3min long and shouldn't be more than 5-6mb at most, and I see one that's 20, I'm not gonna download it...

Limewire is fine for music. It's only when you start searching for movies and 18+ stuff that it starts to get messy.

Music isn't immune though. Generally, I find that infected files are much smaller than what they should be.

Take ChaosK's example, I could be looking for a song (or since it's an example, a movie), and you'll find something like this:

The Dark Knight - 700MB
tHeDarkKnIgHt - 568K
DarkKnight Sex scenes - 568K
Dark Knight movie 568K
Batwoman Panty shots 568K

I think the thing is smaller files attract the noobs:

"Haha, there's all these people downloading the big file when I can get it for less than 1MB. Stupid people...."

[NM]

There are torrent sites around where you can get music. Just need to do a bit of searching but the general ones like mininova you'll be able to find the music you're looking for. And you can always google "Album/Artist name".torrent or something to that effect and bring up even more results. And then there are the torrent sites where its strictly music torrents (but you need to be invited and hold a proper share ratio to get/stay in).

I'd recommend torrents over Limewire anytime.

[The Heretic Azazel]

For music specifically, I like using Soulseek. It's a very low resource program, and doesn't work off seeds/peers, you establish a connection and download one file at a time from each user. When you get fast speeds from someone who also has a lot of files you want, it's easy to add them and expand your library in a hurry.

[Killa-Eyez]

...you establish a connection and download one file at a time from each user. When you get fast speeds from someone who also has a lot of files you want, it's easy to add them and expand your library in a hurry.

Kinda sounds like DC++. I remember using Kazaa Lite Dark Resurrection alot in the old days. I miss Audio Galaxy. I now use LimeWire Pro if I'm just searching for a particular song, and use µTorrent for the bigger files, whole music albums, anime's, movies etc.