[kenshin]

Hi. I am a new Mac User. What P2P program can I use to download songs, shows, etc.? What's the best for Macs?

[codywalton]

NEO

http://expert.cc.purdue.edu/~mthole/neo/index.html

Its a shadow client for KaZaa. Basically that means the user host lists arent updated automatically, you have to manually download them. But once you do it works great, and has a very mac-like interface.

I wouldn't suggest using it on anything 56k or lower...but it works great on broadband.

[iRebound]

i don't like neo...it's a hassel to find stuff to download.

i think direct connect is way better and easier to find stuff to download.

[cpac]

Acquisition works well for me, although others sometimes have difficulty. It's a limewire client that doesn't suck like the official limewire client.

[iRebound]

oh yea, also try acquisition

[iRebound]

Originally posted by cpac:
Acquisition works well for me, although others sometimes have difficulty. It's a limewire client that doesn't suck like the official limewire client.

others have difficulty is because they don't wait long enough for all the servers to connect

[codywalton]

i have never ever been able to connect to anything with acquisition. Neo works great for me all the time.

neo rocks.

[Neo.cmg]

MLDonkey is the best out there. I've found everything on it, and download speeds are great for us broadband users. Acquisition is good if you're looking for music, Neo isn't that great, but it does work.

Neo.cmg

[tomb]

anyone know what happened to hotline?

[Hozie]

Another vote for acquisition... I've been able to connect to 90% of the hosts I tried...

[Mediaman_12]

Originally posted by tomb:
anyone know what happened to hotline?

It got took over by an evil corparation, then got infested by windowz pricks.

[Patcarla]

Originally posted by kenshin:
Hi. I am a new Mac User. What P2P program can I use to download songs, shows, etc.? What's the best for Macs?

I use Acquisition for softwares and mp3s and Direct Connect for everything else.

[asd]

Acquisition is awesome. I only use it to get MP3's, but it works great and has a nice interface.

[Polopo43]

carracho
www.carracho.com
(mac only hotline-like)
www.tracker-tracker.com for the trackers

AND
X-nap
http://xnap.sourceforge.net/

Enjoy !

[tomb]

that essence of evil was microsoft, wasn't it?

[tomb]

anyone know if there is another p2p as good as hotline WAS for file ttransfer?

[wataru]

XNap is great for music.

[barbarian]

Direct Connect is great if you find a server that contains the type of music you are interested.

XNap is good but slow.

Everything else is still... well not so hot.

Wimpus is sort of interesting, but it cuts off too many songs (only 10 percent of the songs come in clean)...

[dtriska]

BitTorrent for TV shows.

[dfiler]

Another vote for Aquisition... The interface is continually being refined despite being way better than the competition.

I liked it so much, I actually paid for it.

[Phranken9]

Originally posted by tomb:
anyone know if there is another p2p as good as hotline WAS for file ttransfer?

I like KDX, check it out at
http://www.haxial.com/products/kdx/index2.html

[BTP]

I am surprised no one mentioned Limewire.

I am not that Jim wasn't though:
http://macupdate.com/info.php/id/10712

Jim is a P2P that uses GiFT and works really well for me

[Anomalous]

I also use XNap.

[Angus_D]

eDonkey is ok.

[Liudger]

I use hotline (although not the app). The client i use is called heidrun (Only Mac!) get it here

Fot my 80 Mbit Hotline server I use a programme called shxd. Very powerfull app that uses almost no cpu time. People get great speeds indeed. 1 MB/s is no exception. Use heidrun to get to this server shxd.ath.cx for the latest release of shxd.


If you want new movies I would use mldonkey with apple's X11 interface
go to this forum for more info.

For music I would use direct connect. Great speed but interface is terrible.