From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 11 20:25:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mlug.missouri.edu (mlug.missouri.edu [128.206.94.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4DBC37B403 for ; Thu, 11 Oct 2001 20:25:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (mogmios@localhost) by mlug.missouri.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21) with ESMTP id WAA25789; Thu, 11 Oct 2001 22:25:32 -0500 Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 22:25:32 -0500 (CDT) From: Michael To: kplug-list@kernel-panic.org, "David S. Jackson" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, ale@ale.org Subject: Re: gnutella tips? In-Reply-To: <20011010132543.A1941@sylvester.dsj.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've come to find gnutella almost useless for anything I'm in a hurry for. I mainly use it to randomly browse and add anything that seems interesting and will actually download to my collection. Even Usenet is less frustrating in general. FreeNet seems the most promissing but since it has no built-in search mechanism you have to browse the index sites for what you are looking for. When I move somewhere with cable/dsl access again I'll make my sizable collection available on FreeNet if they fix it to handle so many files by then. (I've recently learned FreeNet can't yet handle 100gig influxes of data. *sighs*) Your best bet might be IRC. Find some people with common interest and share to your hearts content. *shrugs* (I spend a lot of time gathering files off the Net so there is my experience.) *^*^*^* Michael McGlothlin http://www.nomadphones.org On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, David S. Jackson wrote: > Hi, > > I was looking for some advice on the best ways to use gnutella to > get good MP3s. > > 1) Searching for what you want is easy, but actually *getting* it > is hard, since people have uploads blocked, firewalled, or they > simply log off by the time you finally connect to them. How do > you actually get abc.mp3, once you've found it? > > 2) Are there programs that will keep a *hotlist* of what you're > looking for that week and manage to merge partial downloads? > > 3) Lots of files out on Gnutella et al are partial recordings or > are of dubious quality. Is there a way to spot bad mp3s before > you download them? (Obviously, if a file is 576K in size, it's > probably bad, I know. But other tips?) > > 4) Right now, I'm using gnapster, lopster, gnut, teknap for > d/ling; mp3info, id3ed, mp3rename, mp3check, and Sonize to keep > them somewhat organized. Any further ideas? > > I'll have more questions later. But I'd appreciate any help you > could pass along for now on these questions. Thanks! > > -- > David S. Jackson dsj@dsj.net > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > I met my latest girl friend in a department store. > She was looking at clothes, and I was putting Slinkys > on the escalators. -- Steven Wright > > -- > http://www.kernel-panic.org > list archives http://www.ultraviolet.org > To unsubscribe, send a message to the address shown in the list-unsubscribe > header of this message. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message