----- On 6/3/2003 7:22 PM, T. Hackett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >>>>OK. Limewire is a crashing piece of crap. > >Amen: slow, slow, sl-o-w and an interface that looks like Aqua meets >Windows 3.1. Yecchh. > >>>> Any suggestions on a better >>>>alternative? > >Someone on the list a few days back turned me on to Drumbeat and I've >been using it since this weekend; 'bout the best results I've gotten >since Audiogalaxy. Got almost a gig's worth of tunes and am finding >virtually everything I'm searching for. I may even pony up the $35 >registration at the end of my 15-day free trial. Maybe. > http://drumbeat.info/download.shtml
I sure miss the good old days, Napster, then Audiogalaxy. It's a constant hassle for file sharing, anymore. Guess there's some new, maybe good stuff for OSX, but I'm not ready for it, yet. Absolutely hate Limewire. Had some success with Mactella a few years ago, then nothing. I generally run iSwipe and Drumbeat together. Drumbeat is a huge memory cludge and handles files quite poorly, i.e., it will blindly overwrite files, and will not continue a download. But it nicely queues files for download. iSwipe is a nice broad base file sharing app, (tho I've never managed to share a single file with it). It's got a better than average search engine, queues Hotline nicely, manages Gnutella better than anything else I've ever tried, and searches several other platforms. It handles files very well, but has some bugs that bother some configurations, I guess. Some folks have alot of trouble with it. My system is handling it well, these days. It won't queue napster files, so I run it with Napster off. Have recently tried 2get at <http://sourceforge.jp/projects/twoget/> for napster stuff. Have had mixed results, but good enough to keep trying. It's not the memory monster Drumbeat is, and handles files better. But I still get more downloads from Drumbeat. Support is poor only because I don't speak Japanese. But they do a lot, I mean a lot of updates. And I like the way they allow you to handle the network servers. They get a great server list and you can pretty responsively choose. Lotsa pluses and minuses around, Too many minuses. -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
