Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 13:13:19 +0200 From: Hanno Liem <freebsd@dark4ce.com> To: "David S. Jackson" <dsj@sylvester.dsj.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, kplug-list@kernel-panic.org, ale@ale.org Subject: Re: gnutella tips? Message-ID: <20011015131319.D48004@dark4ce.com> In-Reply-To: <20011010132543.A1941@sylvester.dsj.net>; from dsj@sylvester.dsj.net on Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 01:25:43PM -0400 References: <20011010132543.A1941@sylvester.dsj.net>
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<soapbox> Gnutella is braindead. Use something with the FastTrack protocol: Kazaa or Morpheus (I use Morpheus)... it is infinitely better than Napster or Gnutella has ever been, imho. The decentralized setup is nice, but what makes it really cool is the fact that FastTrack breaks files down into parts which are then downloaded simultanously from multiple sources. Concurrent downloading rocks... when downloading a file where my throughput to a certain host is 1.2 K/sec I generally have 5-10 concurrent downloads of -sequential parts- of that file from a slew of other hosts. Still too slow? Add more download sites... Often the final bottleneck becomes _your_ bandwidth. As it should be. </soapbox> grtz, Han (who doesn't know any *NIX implementations for FastTrack) On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 01:25:43PM -0400, 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 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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