25th February 2003, 08:57
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kazaa whores
before this starts, may i point out that i am using kazaa lite, the latest version - i'll have no spyware thankyou.
[rant] so, i tried to download a song i had heard in daredevil (the song happens to be by a band called Evanescene), and it is a very good song - no problems there. So, i load up kazaa, search for it and find it! wow, fantastic, it was labelled at 320kbps...pity kazaa only supports 128kbps really isn't it. i downloaded it anyway (about 3Mb, about the right size for a 128 mp3 of about 3mins 30secs long)...to find out that it was 80kbps,m with a sample rate of 22kHz, distorted like fuck, really bad background noise, practically unlistenable - i'd bet it was transcoded. THANKS! so i download another version (labelled as 128kbps, closer to 4Mb, looking good!)...but this one isn't any good (the song actually pauses for up to 3 seconds at 4 places). WHY CAN'T PEOPLE RIP AT DECENT QUALITIES? (by decent, i'll do with 128 off kazaa). and why can't they label things correctly?? ALL of my music (although it's ogg) has the correct titles, and i am more than happy to share. (i now have the song, due to the ever-reliable IRC) |
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25th February 2003, 12:29
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Major Dude
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laugh my fucking ass OFF
none of my music is encoded at anything less than 320K (I rip all my music at rates above 800k and I download (at the college) nothing less than 320k) 
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25th February 2003, 12:32
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...why? 320k is overkill, 256 at highest, 160 will do
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25th February 2003, 23:02
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Freedom of speech is the basic freedom of humanity. When you've lost that, you've lost everything. 1\/\/4y 34|<$p4y 1gp4y 33714y, 0d4y 0uy4y? | Roses are #FF0000; Violets are #0000FF; chown -R ${YOU} ~/base The DMCA. It really is that bad. : Count for your life. |
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9th March 2003, 07:48
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Major Dude
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the best rip is about 192, and if u going to download music, then use winmx, kazaa is only good for very big files that lost of people have
Yes my spelling sucks, I know that and it can't be changed |
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9th March 2003, 11:34
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Transcoding is a big problem, but i cant really justify complaining about it when its free... |
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9th March 2003, 15:17
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Major Dude
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u have a good point it is free. but people should at lest be nice enough to give out some good free stuff. Then the world will be a much happyer place.
. But with kazaa u never know what u will get, so use a diffrent program to be able to download with more secuitry.
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9th March 2003, 17:05
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It's been said before - if you want audio quality, then you buy the CD.
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9th March 2003, 22:47
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Major Dude
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yes that is true, but then what about all the programs that loss money b/c no one is downloading them. And who can bet free, instead of $15
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10th March 2003, 09:26
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10th March 2003, 12:01
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Is it just me, or are Evanescense nothing special?
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10th March 2003, 13:11
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i have only heard "bring me to life"...and i like it.
but i'll be sticking with my real music for now
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11th March 2003, 11:29
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a mp3Pro at 80kbit does 'sound' like a good mp3 at 128kbit, but since it is more compressed, it lacks some richness in sound according to audiophiles. more info: http://www.mp3pro.com/ |
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11th March 2003, 12:11
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! oh god, wait...let me get my breath and make me stop shaking so i can answer... firstly mp3pro is really bad secondly, 80kbps mp3pro does NOT sound remotley as good as 128kbps mp3. whilst mp3pro may sound better at lower bitrates, this sounded especially poor, especially on some decent speakers, with a decent soundcard. it was 22khz, if not, then the distortiopn was part of the song on the cd, and not on a different rip from a different cd i obtained later. please, use a decent file format, at a decent bitrate, and a sample rate of 44kHz. I am no audiophile, but i know bad quality sound when i hear it. this is why i use ogg vorbis. which is MUCH BETTER than mp3pro AND mp3 AND wma. |
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11th March 2003, 13:06
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This may be totally irrellavent to your comments, but i suggest you switch to DirectConnect, or its sibling, DC++ (faster, more reliable than DC). First of all it contains more data available than Kazaa (4 petabytes), secondly it has a multi-hub network, inwhich i have never had a problem (but you can to a multi-hub search). There are "user-friendly" hubs where you must label everything correctly, not be sharing incomplete files, and be sharing at least 10GB, depending on the hub.
Best of all, theres no child porn 
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11th March 2003, 18:16
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well I'm not using mp3pro... but i have tried it =) cant say i liked it very much... mp3pro doesn't sound totaly crappy if you have a mp3pro decoder,,, (not included in winamp3)
but if the file you got was a mp3pro, you wouldn't know unless you have a mp3pro decoder installed... and yes... all this is irrelevant... mp3pro sucks, and is not free... |
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11th March 2003, 18:41
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Re: kazaa whores
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Every advance in knowledge brings us closer to the mystery of our own being.... |
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11th March 2003, 19:48
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yeah.. we all love that, dont we? or how about movies, why do ppl rename everything to something that has nothing to do with that it is?
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11th March 2003, 20:22
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i dont have the bandwidth to dl games
(but i am downloading a 2 cd movie...which i know is the movie (thanks avipreview)). mArt - must have something to do with them having too much bandwidth and a hatred for all prople
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11th March 2003, 21:22
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this is what i'm saying, in Direct Connect, i haven't had one download that didnt turn out to be what i wanted (and i've downloaded about 20gb from it) where as on kazaa, it happened very often. Unfortunately, DC is sh*t for getting songs. It mostly only has isos and movies, no self-extracting exes for games (only isos) and barely any songs.
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11th March 2003, 21:38
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Major Dude
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i'm telling everyone go use winmx, its got lots of people, easy to find files, u know that they are really called. its faster and with Napmx u can add other servers that can double or triple the files to be found.
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12th March 2003, 00:07
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With direct connect or DC++, there are no 56k'ers. And everyone must (usually) share a minimum from 5-30gb of data. Imagine that, about 4 petabytes of data, from tons of users, downloading at your modems full speed? Sorry 56k'ers, but this is for broadband!
i tried winmx and i hated it, i could never find the file i wanted. With DC++/DC, i found a very rare game on ISO (combat mission) on the first try! I wouldnt suggest standard DC, it takes up too much system resources. To get DC++, go here: http://dcplusplus.sourceforge.net |
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12th March 2003, 01:34
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Major Dude
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if u used winmx and did not find the file on the winmx server, thats y there is napmx, b/c people make there own severs and with those u can find anything, i have been able to
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12th March 2003, 03:56
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Meh. I don't care, it is free... the only thing I have to bitch about right now is that
ATMO, I WENT TO YOUR SITE AND CAN'T FIND ANY MORE OF YOUR MUSIC, YOU BASTARD!!!   I want more!
just as feathery as ever |
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12th March 2003, 04:04
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Major Dude
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damn raven u really want some from ATMO!
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12th March 2003, 04:09
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Little Winged One
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Oh yes baby.
just as feathery as ever |
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12th March 2003, 04:15
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Major Dude
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ur an odd one, just like dlink always says
and go winmx, use winmx, its better then kazaa, not spy ware, use winmx Yes my spelling sucks, I know that and it can't be changed |
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12th March 2003, 04:18
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My sites currently hosted with brinkster, and only have 16mb of bandwith per day to play with, so hosting them there isnt an option. |
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12th March 2003, 04:19
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Little Winged One
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Yeah k one question is winmx FREE or no? If NO, there's my answer.
 And I am a damned odd one, and proud of it. Pick of the fucked up litter. 
just as feathery as ever |
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12th March 2003, 04:20
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Hmm... Where can I get some more of your muzak then, Atmo? You've gottanutha loyal here!
just as feathery as ever |
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12th March 2003, 04:29
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Give me a few days, i should be on a better server then and i'll upload some more. If all else fails i'll upload my stuff to http://www.iuma.com |
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12th March 2003, 13:45
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i used to know of a site that gave 500mb free, unlimited transfer, no ads. But then they died (gee i wonder why
). Anyways the best one i know of rite now is www.web1000.com, 50mb free no ads, no online website making crap like geocities or tripod either. They allow everything there, even p0rn!
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12th March 2003, 20:28
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Freedom of speech is the basic freedom of humanity. When you've lost that, you've lost everything. 1\/\/4y 34|<$p4y 1gp4y 33714y, 0d4y 0uy4y? | Roses are #FF0000; Violets are #0000FF; chown -R ${YOU} ~/base The DMCA. It really is that bad. : Count for your life. |
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14th March 2003, 22:06
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Re: Re: kazaa whores
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Black and White is scripted like heck, but it's the first Bullfrog game in full 3D with translucency and characters that aren't sprites! |
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14th March 2003, 22:11
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Atmo, didn't I ask this before and get ignored? |
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14th March 2003, 22:18
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ok, i only read the first page....
um, Kazaa isnt a music thing, its just a "file sharing" thing. What it realy is is a way to get those programs you cant afford... ie 3dstudio, maya, photoshop... etcetc, And you are just grabbing shit of other peeps boxes, so even thinking that you can get anything reliable is insane. If you want music files, just search the web, there are tons of sites with all kinds of bootleg, free, or promotional files. Even Live365 is doing some crazy shit now(you have to be hosting a station tho..) Anys, bitching about kazaa is a simple waste of time imo. I mean, you are reaching into someone elses hard drive... what you expect? |
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14th March 2003, 22:27
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i expect people who leech off me to have the common decency to label and tag all of their stuff correctly. i do it myself (hell. i even retag all the porn i download, to give more accurate descriptions). yes, it's my harddrive, i don;t see the point of fucking labels up, it's just a waste of time, and is done ON PURPOSE.
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14th March 2003, 23:19
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binary_hero, you are aware that it is now a virtual requirement of Kazaa 2 to get at least 1GB uploads before you can start getting priority in downloads? I think those idiots are trying to get 1GB uploaded by looking for uncool stuff (with no queues) and retagging it to cool stuff to bump up their upload:download ratio.
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