Posted by Kevin on 12/30/05 01:21

thank you for the response and the information......very very helpful......
:)

"Technobarbarian" <Technobarbarian-ztopzpam@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:87ednZd1l7rGGynenZ2dnUVZ_vudnZ2d@giganews.com...
>
> "Kevin" <qcfs@sasktel.net> wrote in message
> news:11r90c2gosbvddd@corp.supernews.com...
> > how in the world to you retrieve the mp3 music files from newgroups?
>
> There are better programs out there, such as the shareware Newsbin
Pro,
> but this one is free and a good starting point: http://www.shemes.com/
Lots
> of information here on how it's done.
>
> Chances are the usenet service that comes with your ISP account has
a
> very short retention period for binary news groups and some of the ISP
> servers don't carry binary groups. On my server it's around 48 hours for
> binary groups, while text groups will have 30 to 60 days retention. There
> are any number of premium usenet servers that have retention periods of 30
> to 70 days on binary groups starting at around $7 a month and topping out
at
> $25 for unlimited access on a top of the heap server.
>
> Alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.complete_cd is a good starting point, but
> there are quite a few binary groups for MP3s and most of them are more
> specialized.
>
> If you have broadband service your next two questions are where you
> store everything and how to organize it. Part of the answer is:
> www.musicbrainz.org , MP3Tag, Media Monkey and there are reasons why big
> hard drives are selling so well. My ISP just bumped up my speed. With a
> premium server I can download binary files at 6Mbps.
>
> TB
>
>

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