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[icarus]

Hmm. I'm looking for music for John's programs in Out Of Bounds (shhh! I know I swore off writing fanfic till after Sanskrit's complete for the quarter -- I can still play a little).

It looks like Ares isn't working any more, or at least it's not working on the school computer. Are there are P2P programs you'd recommend?

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[mad_maudlin]

Iv'e used LimeWire, though it's a bit twitchy sometimes, and it does constantly bug you to upgrade to the pay version. (Though a friend of mine used the free version to illegally download the pay version, so maybe you can get around it... :-))

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Though a friend of mine used the free version to illegally download the pay version

Oh, ha! That's just... delightfully evil.

Icarus

[sileas.livejournal.com]

I use a variant of Emule. It doesn't slow down my network and it has old TV-series and ebooks that are hard to find on bittorrent. It can download pretty slowly though. Depends on the sources you get. It's easier to have 5 or more things to download. More chance of something actually downloading. ;)
There are also a couple of good websites with Emule links and they're pretty reliable. Could be a bit of a hassle configuring everything.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Oh, well, anything that's slow on a high speed connection would be impossible on my dial-up. Bittorrents are completely out for me because they take 39 hours to download.

I'm just looking for music files, everything else is too slow.

Icarus

[sileas.livejournal.com]

Downloading individual music files on Emule is very fast. :D It's just difficult for larger files to download at a constant speed. Bittorrent has a much higher internet traffic than Emule. I find individual songs on Emule a lot; I can never find just one song on Bittorrent (they usually release the whole album). Otherwise there are a couple of interesting communities on Internet that offer music files via up-file, yousendit and other such services. I only look at http://community.livejournal.com/audiography/ sometimes but I'm sure searching yousendit as interest or share or music might turn up other interesting things. ;)

[dancing-moon.livejournal.com]

DC++ demands a large harddrive to get to the good stuff and is a bit finnicky to set up, but I've found it to be the best. Free software and a lots of hubs with specific themes

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Well, certain software I'm loading on the external drive, but because of slow download times I only download music. A 350 meg avi file takes 40 hours to download on my dialup, you see. *misses Ares*

Icarus

[dancing-moon.livejournal.com]

Ah, then I actually think DC could work for you. The external harddrive is good, just make sure you don't have any private stuff on it and share it all.
You download from one user at a time, and there's a lot of music hubs

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Oh! That sounds good. *perks up*

[dancing-moon.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the problem is usually for people who have small drives because most big hubs (=places where a lot of users are, thus more potential material) demand you have at least so-and-so much gigabyte.
But I like it better than bittorrent because everything except the hottest releases (like, uh, HP movie on DVD a few days after it got ripped) goes much quicker and smoother. Try and see http://www.dcpp.net/

But when they write that it's easy interface, that's not completely true >_> I found it tricky in the beginning, but I probably knew a lot less about computers than you do now. It worked fine at mom's ADSL connection