I'd like to add my two cents to this as well, I think AudioGalaxy absolutely rocks. I downloaded it probably two weeks ago and I am hooked.
Some of the features I have found:
Ensures files you download get completed, even if the guy you are downloading it from gets disconnected.
Organized by song rather than by user; ie, when you search for a song, it will return one match for each actual song, not one match for each person that has that song.
Automatically finds the closest person to you to download from.
You can set up a "Queue" of files you want to download, and it will download them as it finds them. (Great for dial-up users who don't have time to download 800 mp3's at once.) Also good because even nobody has the song on RIGHT NOW, it will keep looking for it as long as you have your AudioGalaxy Satellite running.
It will indicate which songs you already have downloaded.
If you have your AudioGalaxy Satellite running at home, you can visit audiogalaxy.com from work/school, etc, and tell it to download songs to your home computer.
Ability to search by artist, to see all their songs.
Ability to buy the CD if applicable.
Apparently AudioGalaxy also hosts some mp3's of its own, although I have yet to run into them myself.
That is all I can think of off the top of my head. That said, I still sometimes use Napster because occasionally AudioGalaxy's search won't yield a song I want due to its "intelligent" searching.
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Some of the features I have found:
That is all I can think of off the top of my head. That said, I still sometimes use Napster because occasionally AudioGalaxy's search won't yield a song I want due to its "intelligent" searching.
PS. If you download it, also check out http://mp3-under.net/user-contrib.html to download an updated (and open-source!) interface that is skinnable.
- Spud_dawg