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First Napster 2.0 Review
prostoalex writes "Matthew Fordahl from Associated Press is trying out Napster 2.0, which, according to the review, has some serious stability issues. At least for Fordahl the software 'repeatedly crashed during installation and brought down the entire computer with it.' They also have this picture of this Samsung Napster-branded digital music player."
>>Hint: A CD with 15 tracks = 15$! Shouldn't
>>this be CHEAPER than the real CDs? It is worse
>>on quality, no artwork etc etc etc...
Napster, like iTunes, offers a $9.99 for the entire album.
The $10 a month for unlimited downloads and listening (so as long as you keep subscribing) isn't too terrible either.
I've tried Gnutella many times, and every time have been disappointed. Besides the fact that it's relatively clunky, it's usually hard to find things and even harder to get a real download going.
KaZaA is okay, but the music is usually low quality, and I definitely wouldn't trust downloading any sort of executable file over it.
For music I use WinMX. It reminds me a lot of the old Napster - you can find just about anything on it. Sometimes you have to wait in line for the download, but such is life.
For just about anything, though, bittorrent is where it's at. Find a good hub and you can get whatever you want, usually pretty darn quickly. Of course, the problem is finding that hub, since A) A lot of the good ones don't want every Joe Schmoe knowing about them and B) A lot of the time the good public ones require something ridiculous like 50GB shared and 10 slots open. Once you find a nice one, though, you're set forever with whatever you need.
-- Dr. Eldarion --
Zinf (formerly Freeamp) has some pretty nice album management, similar to iTunes.
http://www.zinf.org
Yeah, Zinf Is Not Freeamp. I can't stand that program.
I just use XMMS, but I'll probably switch to Rhythmbox when it gets a little better.