I use Limewire and I don't think it's all that great. I have cable Internet and whenever I use Limewire, it's kinda slow, plus it doesn't seem to have a lot of underground or independent music on it or entire albums. I also use Hotline, I don't know if that's open source, but a friend of mine got me the software off the Internet and I've found a bunch of full album download sites that support a wide variety of genres.
I liked it enough to pay for. It was what I went to after Morpheus went spyware. I now use WinMX (which went from being the best Napster client to some problems to a good own network) but if that got sued out of existence, I'd go back.
It's gnutella, with all the advantages (as near impossible to close down as you can get) and disadvantages (not currently as popular as some of the commercial p2p networks) that implies.
I confess to the disapproving comment ... but even if I did approve, I wouldn't do it, just cos my laptop is crap at playing music in any case and I'm not so into music that I would want to download stuff - I'm happy with putting the radio on if I want background music, or playing something from our collection if I want a particular style of music.
Someone in our household does do this kind of thing - and though I don't approve, I also don't make other people's moral choices for them.
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Date: 2003-02-16 09:28 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-02-16 09:50 am (UTC)I've either already bought - on vinyl - virtually all of the music I've downloaded, or it's not available eg people's home remixes.
limewire...not so much
Date: 2003-02-16 11:23 am (UTC)Re: limewire...not so much
Date: 2003-02-16 01:01 pm (UTC)It's gnutella, with all the advantages (as near impossible to close down as you can get) and disadvantages (not currently as popular as some of the commercial p2p networks) that implies.
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Date: 2003-02-16 11:17 pm (UTC)Someone in our household does do this kind of thing - and though I don't approve, I also don't make other people's moral choices for them.