Posted by Technobarbarian on 11/16/39 11:39

"Dave D" <dave_d@dave_d.com> wrote in message
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> "Technobarbarian" <Technobarbarian-ztopzpam@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>> Obviously. Much like Kazaa WinMX is dead, but the corpse keeps
>> flailing around and probably will for some time to come. It's sad to
>> watch, particularly with all the fans that can't let it die in peace.
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> Works very well for me, thanks.

Oh yeah, the body continues to twitch, but it "works" in a very limited
fashion. At one time WinMX was my primary downloading application. Those
days are long gone.
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>>Right now: Shareaza, eMule plus and uTorrent are the best available. Next
>>week, who knows? Evolution marches on. Getting all attached and drippy
>>about any one program is ridiculous. Hell, getting all attached to p2p
>>doesn't make much sense either. For music files binary usenet groups and a
>>good binary harvester are often a better choice.
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> Binary newsgroups better than WinMX for music? In what way exactly? Usenet
> offers a pathetic range of material compared to WinMX. For people who want
> the latest album from current bands, binary NGs might work well enough and
> offer fast downloads. However, for anyone wanting older, deleted or rare
> material, WinMX is unbeatable.

And my experience with any p2p application, including WinMX, is
exactly the opposite. With p2p you can spend hours searching for the
rare--if you already know what it is you want--and you'll mostly come up
empty. With usenet I look at what's available and grab what I want. It takes
me minutes and once it's selected it's 99.9999% certain that I'll get it--at
6Mbps. Here's a hint for you: don't limit yourself to one binary group.
There are binary groups for just about any era or genre. Classical Asian
music, for example, is almost unheard of on p2p; I can get it by the bucket
load from usenet. By shifting through usenet I've discovered all sorts of
stuff, whose existance I never would have even imagined from working with a
p2p search screen. They both have their place, but I only use p2p for music
if I want something out of American pop, past or present, that I don't have
and that wasn't posted to usenet in the last two months--in other words:
very rarely. My experience it that the quality of the files I get from
usenet is also generally better.

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