Alternatives to Napster

[emcron]

What are the good alternatives to napsters? I cant download anything now.

[daveleau]

Second most popular is gnutella I believe. Why not use Napster?

Dave

[Gomer]

My guess is his college or university shut it down. I think Napigator works around that by utilizing other servers. Dunno.

Try www.napigator.com (http://www.napigator.com)

[greenlion]

Scour Exchange. Not as popular and doesn't have the number of users as Napster, but better.

[emcron]

No I live at home, the problem is that when ever I try downloading from napster I get transfer errors on every single attempt to download a song. This didnt happen before.

[jad1097]

Scour Exchange (http://www.scour.com)


Newsgroups are better though. Higher bitrates and full songs and albums. Look for newsgroups with mp3, sounds or music in the name. Such as alt.binaries.mp3 or alt.binaries.sounds.mp3 etc...

[OuTpaTienT]

Newgroups all the way! In my humble little collection of mp3s (approx 1,400) about 80% of them have come from the newsgroups, 10-15% I ripped myself, and the remaining have come from Napster or other sources.

[orkboss]

Give us some links cause, well I'm lazy. I get fed up with searching for things over the net.

[Government007]

I heard you could use mIRC and get into a chatroom with an f-serve. I think you have to type a trigger and it allws you to download certain files.

[bhess]

I like newsgroups also. Try alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.complete cd too.

While on the subject, I had a napster-type program before I lost everything. I can't remember what it was though. The thing I liked about it was when you typed something in to search, it added it to a dropdown menu. That way if you looked later it was there, no typing it in again.
Anyone remember what it was so I can get it again?

[OuTpaTienT]

Don't think this is a complete list, but it's most of the mp3 newsgroups availible:

alt.binaries.sounds.mp3
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.1940s
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.1950s
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.1960s
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.1970s
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.1980s
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.1990s
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.2000s
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.alternative-rock
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.beatles
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.black-gospel
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.blues
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.bootlegs
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.brazilian
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.classic-rock
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.comedy
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.d
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.dance
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.dancehall
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.french
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.french.d
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.gothic-industrial
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.heavy-metal
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.holland
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.hymns
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.indian.bhangra
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.indian.movies
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.indian.movies.old
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.indian.pop
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.indian.remixes
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.indian.requests
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.indie
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.jay-denebeim.taking-a-****
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.jazz
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.kcuf
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.latin
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.m
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.metal.full-albums
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.minneapolis
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.newcleus
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.ninja.music
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.pop
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.prog
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.rap-hiphop
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.rap-hiphop.full-albums
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.rap-hiphop.mixtapes
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.reggae
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.requests
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.rock
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.rock.full-album
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.singing-cowboy
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.sound-effects
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.southern-gospel
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.speeches
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.spoken-word
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.taral-hicks
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.themes
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.tramaine-hawkins
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.video-games
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.zappa