Question About Music Downloads....

[partagus]

Hello everyone,

I was thinking about installing limewire on my computer for the purpose of downloading some music. Is this a good music download site? Has anyone used it? What else are people using and what would you reccomend? I used to have Kazaa but I didn't like it. Thanks for the info.

 

[hiasdamoon]

Limewire is a virus/spamware haven.

 

[megamania500]

I haven't had any problems with Limewire at all. If your downloading zip files and other stuff like that, then you may have problems. If you just stick to mp3 files for music, you should have no problems with Limewire. Others have problems with viruses and such with Limewire, I suspect they are downloading all types of files like exe, mov and zip files. In Limewire, do a search and along with what your looking for, you will see different crap pop up also, and they are always exe, mov, and zip files. Thats a red flag right there. If you are trying to download, say, the movie "Borat", and a mov file is named "Borat", but its only 2,000KBs, you know its not the actual movie, because a full length movie will be around 700,000KBs. Or if you do a search for a song and you have files that come up that are exe and zip that say they are the song, but are just 22KBs in size, you know a typical song is about 3,500KBs big, so those hits are both the wrong type of file (not mp3) and wrong size. Its common sense NOT to download those files. Its easy to spot the BS while using Limewire. Just use common sense and you will have no problems.
But Limewire doesn't get as many hits during searches as other P2P software. Bearshare was great, but just today I found out they sold out, so don't bother with them unless you want to pay $.99 a song (which is ok, also).

 

[NickyE3]

+1 for ^

I only use Limewire Pro
Learn how to use Torrents bro - they are MUCH better and safer for your comp

 

[kish]

I like morpheus 4.9. (don't get the newer version because it will not work because of some legal bs) When i sample my dl's it lets me know if theres any attatchments, then I can just cancel the dl so that helps. I think picking up viruses is inevitable with every p2p site no matter what precautions you take. Just have ta stay aware when you pick them up and flush em out.

 

[hyp1]

for music soulseek is where its at

http://www.slsknet.org/download.html
(be sure to download client version 156b towards the bottom of the page,to connect)

absolutely no spyware,or bullshit ads

 

[NickyE3]

albumbase is another good site
you have to register, but it asks for your cell# to received text messages - i didnt fill out my number and it has worked great.

all it does is search mediaupload.com and other file sharing/uploading sites

 

[Powerbuilder333]

I use Limewire without problems. Not as good as Kazaa Lite was.
When I get more hard drive space I'll look into Bit Torrent.

 

[partagus]

Thanks for the info. I am using limewire right now and it is ok. I may switch to torrent. Thanks again