I will develop a new Filesharing prog!

[BuzzB2K]

Originally posted by Teclis
GIVE ME SOME COFFEE

This might be a Good Time for an Upgrade...

[zuppi]

I would like to see my favorite feature in AudioGalaxy: Find Users by Favorite Artists they listed in their profiles. I learned of many artists/genres that way that I had never explored before.

[TankGirl]

Hi zuppi and welcome to Napsterites!

The profile pages you mention are a good example of the socially intelligent features that AudioGalaxy managed to develop before Hilary Rosen gave her kiss of death to the service.

Finding good collectors whose interests match yours is often the best way to find good music. Decentralized p2p has much to learn from AG.

- tg

[Teclis]

thats what I ment with a strong community!like ag! we will try to implement that...........

[JackSpratts]

hi blury_ & zuppi and welcome to the boards at nu. thanks for joining.

- js.

[zuppi]

I'm happy to be part of this community. Tank Girl, I remember your well thought out posts from back in Napster forum days. (I never posted there, but I lurked and learned!)

[Dawn]

Originally posted by TankGirl
Hi zuppi and welcome to Napsterites!

The profile pages you mention are a good example of the socially intelligent features that AudioGalaxy managed to develop before Hilary Rosen gave her kiss of death to the service.

Finding good collectors whose interests match yours is often the best way to find good music. Decentralized p2p has much to learn from AG.

- tg

Zuppi, what she's really saying is Gemini Rules. Don't let her fool you.



Welcome btw

[SA_Dave]

twinspan : you should be using clean iMesh if those are the features you want from an FT client. Although, it does use a lot more memory than KazaaLite.

[twinspan]

Originally posted by SA_Dave
twinspan : you should be using clean iMesh if those are the features you want from an FT client. Although, it does use a lot more memory than KazaaLite.

which features? saved searches?

if so, great! i already got clean iMesh; but haven't tried it out much as when I ran it & clean Grokster 1.5.1 side by side, Grokster came up with more results and instantly found a source to download from, whereas iM kept saying 'searching'.

i'll try out iM some more. altho Dr. Damn has just come out with clean Grokster 1.6...

[SA_Dave]

Originally posted by twinspan
which features? saved searches?

Yup, that's what I meant! There's an option to automatically save search strings, which it does by default, as well as advanced search options. For example you could save a search titled 'HQ movies' which searches for movie files > 500Mb, and apply this to any search string. Quite nifty! Sorry for being a bit vague before.

Originally posted by twinspan
...as when I ran it & clean Grokster 1.5.1 side by side, Grokster came up with more results and instantly found a source to download from, whereas iM kept saying 'searching'.

I've noticed this too! This is due to the similar nature of FT clients (it's always advised not to install 2 @ once, but I did anyway.) When I experienced this, I could only search with iM & not with KL. I suspect that's because I opened iM first & I suspect you opened Grokster first, am I right? If you run them seperately there's no problem though!

I think these features are really good ... auto-source being even better since auto-resume just targets the original destination again (and that user might have logged off, etc); auto-source will look for a new destination and pickup where it left off (if possible)

[twinspan]

Originally posted by SA_Dave
I suspect that's because I opened iM first & I suspect you opened Grokster first, am I right?

Nope.

I opened iM, then opened G. Searched on iM, then on G. Clicked 'download' on iM and waited. And waited. Then clicked 'download' on G. Source found instantly and download commenced. Shut down iM.

Also tested iM completely alone ('queued' for ages). Shut it down, transferred the DAT to G's folder, started G and it found a source for download straight away.

Hmmm... maybe I could just do all my searching in iM and then let G take over the downloads...

[Teclis]

back from the underground....alpha coulbe ready soon

[blury_]

what's the news on this program now???

[NoVA]

Hey Teclis -
I think an important feature is to make sure the P2P network is ENTIRELY decentralized - like Blubster, where you connect directly to users, and not like WinMX, with which you must access the central server in order to plug in to the decentralized network (WinMX is not decentralized for safety, but for scalability). This way it can't be shut down (WinMX can!!!!!!!).

[TankGirl]

Originally posted by NoVA
Hey Teclis -
I think an important feature is to make sure the P2P network is ENTIRELY decentralized - like Blubster, where you connect directly to users, and not like WinMX, with which you must access the central server in order to plug in to the decentralized network (WinMX is not decentralized for safety, but for scalability). This way it can't be shut down (WinMX can!!!!!!!).

That's definitely an important point. Make it decentralized and if possible, provide several alternative ways to invite people into the network.

Welcome aboard NoVa, enjoy your stay at Napsterites!

- tg

[NoVA]

Thanks!

I'm really excited cause i finally got Napster to run on OpenNap servers and although some networks are better, it just reminds me of old times, when you could type anything in on Napster, no matter how rare, and find it on a T3 with a ping of 15 and download it in 30 seconds.. ahh.. those were the days. Of course it doesn't work that way anymore, but its still cool!

[Kris404]

Hello everybody

Hi teclis,


I would just like one more feature added with regard to eliminating fake or deliberately 'contaminated' files (presumably by the record companies themselves).

Lately, I have been downloading some files that are either mono or start to skip at the end or contain complete silence. Though previewing the file at the start of the download could help in the first and third scenario, it doesnt when the file has been tampered with at the end or in the middle.

So there could be some kinda MD5 checksums of search results that could be verified against a 'trusted' list or by eliminating the 'bad seeds' by means of rating/poll or something else.

It could be very difficult to implement especially in a de-centralized network, but that would be a cool forward-looking feature.

Regards,
Krish

[JackSpratts]

Originally posted by Kris404
Hello everybody

hi krish! welcome to nu

- js.

[RIAAEnemy#1]

Hey guys I am new here too, GREAT site you have here

Features I would like to get added:

*Good tight-nit community(decentralized hot list,pm,chat,forum)
*File resume/pause
*When a user signs off, find another user with the same file to dl from
*exciting interface(not important but pleasing)
*File Preview on ALL video/audio files
*ability to import download files from uninstalled versions of program
*56k user friendly
*media reccomendations(I would LOVE that)
*media reviews(another one i would love)
*simple ease of use
*ability to join more than one uuser to download a file from
*ability to report a virus
*ability to boot user sharing viruses

that is all I can currently think of