- What do you guys use besides Kazaa Lite K++, WinMX, and SoulSeek?
- Posted by Ivan Boy on November 23rd, 2003
Lately, when I try to download music from popular artists, I get fake
or damaged files, and if I get the actual song I'm looking for, it
sounds really crappy... What do you guys do to avoid this? Do you use
any other programs to download music?
Thanks,
Ivanolo.
- Posted by Ionizer on November 23rd, 2003
"Ivan Boy" <ivanolo@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:256eaa6b.0311230830.2b70b25e@posting.google.c om...
XNews: http://xnews.newsguy.com/ I don't think I've ever downloaded an
actual fake from the bins.
You can verify the authenticity of some music files available via Kazaa
here, though: http://www.verifieddownloads.com/
Regards,
Ian.
- Posted by ^^artnada^^ on November 23rd, 2003
Ionizer wrote:
|| "Ivan Boy" <ivanolo@yahoo.com> wrote in message
|| news:256eaa6b.0311230830.2b70b25e@posting.google.c om...
||| Lately, when I try to download music from popular artists, I get fake
||| or damaged files, and if I get the actual song I'm looking for, it
||| sounds really crappy... What do you guys do to avoid this? Do you use
||| any other programs to download music?
||
|| XNews: http://xnews.newsguy.com/ I don't think I've ever downloaded an
|| actual fake from the bins.
||
|| You can verify the authenticity of some music files available via Kazaa
|| here, though: http://www.verifieddownloads.com/
||
|| Regards,
|| Ian.
Newsgroups...everytime. Best source out there 
- Posted by Brian Pipa on November 24th, 2003
Bittorrent (Azureus client) and suprnova.org works nicely.
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- Posted by Ivan Boy on November 24th, 2003
Well, thanks guys! I'll give those suggestions a try. I can't believe
I didn't find some of those before... Guess I was using the wrong
terms. :P
- Posted by Rayd8tor on November 24th, 2003
"^^artnada^^" <no_need_to@know.com> wrote in message news:<oB9wb.9209$hJ6.77995068@news-text.cableinet.net>...
How does it work with the newsgroups? I've used them alot, but not for
downloading music. What newsgroup is the best for finding a good
selection of files, and how do you go about finding the particular
song or title that your looking for?
Thanks,
Rayd8tor
- Posted by Ionizer on November 24th, 2003
"Rayd8tor" <rayd8tor@satx.rr.com> wrote in message
news:3d93edc8.0311241212.1e5cc02b@posting.google.c om...
You can do a search of the binaries newsgroups here:
http://www.bincrawler.com/default.aspx The best place to start looking for
mp3 files is within the "alt.binaries.sounds.mp3..." hierarchy. The main
group has a ton of stuff, as does the "...complete_cd" group.
Regards,
Ian.
- Posted by somewhere@anywhere.com on November 25th, 2003
On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 17:52:53 -0500, "Ionizer" <frito_lay_co@hotmail.com>
wrote:
These are the ones I monitor:
alt.binaries.cd-image
alt.binaries.cd.image
alt.binaries.mp3.audiobooks.highspeed
alt.binaries.mp3.audiobooks
alt.binaries.mp3.bootlegs
alt.binaries.sound.mp3
alt.binaries.sounds.1940s.mp3
alt.binaries.sounds.1950s.mp3
alt.binaries.sounds.1960s
alt.binaries.sounds.audiobooks.repost
alt.binaries.sounds.audiobooks
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.1950s
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.1960s
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.2000s
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.alternative-rock
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.audiobooks
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.books
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.bootlegs
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.christian
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.classic-rock
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.comedy
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.complete_cd
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.full_albums
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.gothic-industrial
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.heavy-metal
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.metal.full-albums
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.rock.full-album
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.spoken-word
alt.binaries.sounds.spoken-word
Newbin Pro is one of the best binaries agents.
http://www.newsbin.com/
It's one of the VERY few begware programs I've ever actually paid for. Well
worth the money.
Oh, and Sam's Club has 200 gig drives cheap :-)
- Posted by Brian Pipa on November 25th, 2003
Ionizer wrote:
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- Posted by Rayd8tor on November 26th, 2003
ivanolo@yahoo.com (Ivan Boy) wrote in message news:<256eaa6b.0311240033.61ecccd7@posting.google. com>...
I went looking in newsgroups for the songs and such, but it seems like
alot of the files posted are either incomplete or are really difficult
to locate. the www.bincrawler.com site is helpful, but when I would go
to the newsgroup that was supposed to have the file, it would not be
in the group. Am I doing something wrong here?
- Posted by Don M. on November 26th, 2003
"Rayd8tor" <rayd8tor@satx.rr.com> wrote in message
news:3d93edc8.0311252010.228b7450@posting.google.c om...
Check date posted. Your news server probably retains files for a shorter
period of time.
Don
- Posted by Ionizer on November 26th, 2003
"Rayd8tor" <rayd8tor@satx.rr.com> wrote in message
news:3d93edc8.0311252010.228b7450@posting.google.c om...
As Don M. indicates, you're at the mercy of your news server's retention.
In my case, Rogers Cable, it's three days at the most. So the binaries
groups aren't always as handy as Kazaa, where you can search for any song on
a whim and download it. I generally find myself browsing the bins rather
than searching them for something specific. It's amazing how often I'll
just stumble across stuff that I didn't even know I wanted.
Regards,
Ian.
- Posted by Rayd8tor on November 26th, 2003
"Ionizer" <frito_lay_co@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<bq1q59$1u0npf$1@ID-120824.news.uni-berlin.de>...
That makes complete sense. I'm with Roadrunner and don't know for sure
how long they keep the files, but I doubt it's for very long. On the
same subject, I see a lot of files in the bins that have weird
extensions that I don't recognize. Do you know of any site dedicated
to the newsgroups that has info on what programs are needed for what
sorts of files. I'm fine with the typical .zip,.mp3,.jpeg and such,
but there are alot more out there and not sure how or what i'm
supposed to use in order to decode the files and put them back
together into a usable file. Thanks!!!
- Posted by Ionizer on November 26th, 2003
"Rayd8tor" <rayd8tor@satx.rr.com> wrote in message
news:3d93edc8.0311261059.5aeda61d@posting.google.c om...
Larger files like movies and software are often posted in .rar format, which
you'll need WinRar or similar to unpack. When you're downloading a series
of rar files, or even just a bunch of mp3 files from the same CD, it's
helpful to download them into their own seperate folder just to keep things
organized. A handy site for explaining which file extensions need what:
http://filext.com/index.php
Regards,
Ian.
- Posted by Brian Pipa on November 26th, 2003
Rayd8tor wrote:
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- Posted by Rayd8tor on December 1st, 2003
Brian Pipa <see-my-website-for-email@filenabber.com> wrote in message news:<hs7xb.22025$dl.1417000@twister.southeast.rr. com>...
Thanks guys. I checked out the sites you suggested and got a lot of
good stuff off the groups this past weekend.
