WinMX 3.1 is out.
http://www.winmx.com

Does this version allow you to see people using WinMX 2.6? The beta version of WinMX 3.0 only allowed you to see people who had the beta installed and was using it. Someone please clarify I don't want to install it cause if you do you lose your database of incomplete downloads. Thanks in advance!!

Cheers
AgentMil

How is the newly designed interface of 3.x? The previous one completely sucked and took lots of cpu cycles to calculate/draw the stupid fancy looking 3d windowing system. It took lots of time to move the window around and the redraws of the windows were usually incorrect and overlapping. The sharing was perfect, but I haven't seen a worse interface. Darn, I don't even need an interface it could even be text based. Oh, what a nightmare it was.:mad:

fancy 3d windowing system? what fancy 3d windowing system? are you talking about your standard Microsoft Windows 1 or 2 line shadow effect on the buttons and windows, which every window and button IN Windows uses.

if anything, i'd call that a basic 3d windowing system.

p.s. the design is fine.

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Yes I was talking about 2.6. The application actually has two windows 1) The one you write the search string(the on on top in xy plane) 2) The one that search results appear. The one at the top looks kind of at a higher level (in z direction, that's why I said 3D). To redraw them every time you move the window kills even my 1.4 Ghz Athlon. And most of the redraws put those two windows on top of each other so that you can't access the search results because window 1 blocks window 2. So you move it around again. Oh how excruciating.
Alp

that's funny, cause it doesnt kill my 533ghz Athlon K-6. It does flickers a tid bit when i resize the window, but thats it. It's still speedy and isn't slow to react or anything.

MPC Support!


Bye

I downloaded it and am running it now.
It no longer has 2 separate window system which is great. It's simple and efficient without unneccesarry windowing complexity. NapMX 2.1 did its job perfectly. I'm connected to almost 20 networks, which is quite unbelievable. Maybe the NapMX server list is updated but so far with WinMX 2.6 and corresponding NapMX I could connect to 6 OpenNap networks (out of so many). However I don't see separate ogg support Could it share files with WinMX 2.x users? I guess yes! I saw someone sharing a file with WinMX version 2.6.
Lovely.

i'm thinkin the napmx server list (napigator server list) is out of date myself, cause i can only connect to about 6 servers max as well.

dave

they forgot .ogg ...

and a linux version?? how about that???

You can share Ogg. I presume people just search for .ogg as its true there is no search option for them directly


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Ruairi

Sorry people, rc55 is right. If I had noticed this discussion sooner (busy with finals atm), I would have stopped it earlier. No discussion of sharing copyrighted material, how or where to get it, etc. If I see anything like this it will be edited out on sight. Continuing to do this will lead to account removal. Sorry, but this board isn't about piracy and I can't afford to let discussions slowly drift in that direction either.

As far as I'm concerned, WinMX is interesting for the ability to share non-copyrighted music in an easy and organized manner. That's it.

The ability to download the same file from multiple sources simultaneously is a huge new feature for WinMX. Morpheus has supported this feature in the past but WinMX's implementation is superior. I think WinMX's popularity will grow significantly with this new release.

E-donkey is a good prog too... its very efficient, as far as i can see.

www.edonkey2000.com

btw wanted to say this:
this prog has a cool feature: it can also download from parts. this means, if a user has the middle part of a file, another has the last part, and another has the first, but noone has it all, the donkey wil download the parts and put them togheter.
Also, the donkey will recognize files which are the same, even if they have been renamed!!! so, sometimes u see in Kazaa a file which fits what u are searching for, but it has only 1 user, and another file, same size, same name, but [1] attached, you can't use them optimal - donwloading the same file from those 2 users, because Kazaa doesnt recognize they are the same. that donkey does!!!

hehe and of course: its only intended to donwload legal stuff. of course.

How often does ppl have the last part of a file?? or the middle part?

hhm... perhaps if they use E-donkey....

that's actually quite likely - when doing segmented / multi-source downloading, almost all programs get the beginning of the file from one user, the middle from another one, the end from a third... you get the idea. Kazaa/Morpheus (at least earlier versions) do that as well.. maybe winmx too..

I know....

But the way you wrote it sounded like someone would have only the last part of a file...

btw.: kazaa uses small pieces at a time... not half a file.

IF you use multi-source downloading, you WILL have multiple parts. With winMX you even have alot unfinished files (or, that happened with the older versions, i dunno 'bout the new one). E-donkey whould even be able to use these files for sharing, by reporting them as part of the larger file!!!
It detects corrupted files too
yes, when talking about efficiency E-donkey wins, imho!
but amount of users is important, too - thats why i also still use Kazaa. WinMX - doesnt fill any gap for me...
Thereby, I use Linux AND windows both - in fact, for most use Linux is better for me (faster, more stable). And E-donkey works also under Linux.

kazaa has spyware/adware in it..
use kazaa lite instead.

Nah, I have got ogg from winmx. Just select "any non-mp3 file" from the drop down list. To share ogg, just add the file extension to the sharing list.

There isn't alot out there yet.

I miss the "connect all" option for the open nap networks. I havn't played alot with it yet but I had to connect them one at a time, which took quite awhile.

The multi-user download thing worked very well. On one d/l, I was up over 200Kb/sec.

Winmx rules IMHO:cool:

In the open nap screen,highlight one server,hold shift and click the bottom server then connect,hey presto they all attempt to connect.

I don't understand KAZAA,
I only get to download mp3's or wavs when searching for audio,
and the highest quality is 128kbit/s, which for me is crap!
Is this true, or am I doing something wrong?

And, the damn program is showing alot of unnessesary information about one file.
I always have to scroll horisontally to get the information I want, like downloadspeed, and accessability.

What I like about WINMX:
Almost always good searchresults (quantitywise).
It shows bitrate of the mp3 all way up to 320kbits/s. It shows whether you can download the file rightaway, or have to be qeued.

They forgot OGG! Oh my dear!!
Who cares, they forgot vqf also! He He

About kazaa:
yes, in older versions there's the 128 limit...

Download kazaa lite!!!
it's kazaa without limit, without spyware, without adware.

He guys, me again.
Remember before, i said e-donkey is good. wel, it is, but I just donwloaded winMX and my god - this prog is by far the fastest I ever had... Most of the time with kazaa or e-donkey i got 3-8 kb/sec, now i sometimes get 13 kb/sec!!! for me, thats amazing. winMX rulez!! try it yourself, it was amazing for me. pitty there is no Linux version...

J

Kazaa and the old Morpheus were messed up with the 128 kbps MP3 limit. I have since used Grokster it always goes to 320 kbps in the quality combo box.

I am still not impressed with WinMX in the complexity of operations and horribly slow loaded and logon is you have a large library of shared files.

he guys, and esp. Jan, Id like to get rid of Kazaa, those new ads are annoying - with sound etc, and they'll must cost me bandwith, but can i install kazaa lite, without losing all my kazaa downloads (halfway LotR, I am, so i dont want to lose that with my 5kb/sec connection).
how can i Migrate???

you can transfer your downloads somehow.
A friend of mine did it the other day.
I don't remember how though but I'll ask him if nobody anwers in the meantime.

tanx in advance... I've downloaded kazaa lite, and as soon as i know i can migrate, i'll do it...

Its very simple.
just move all your .dat files from 'C:/Program Files/KaZaA/My Shared folders' to 'C:/Program Files/KaZaA Lite/My Shared Folder' and the next time you connect to KaZaA Lite your partial downloads will be there

that's what I thought.
I wasn't sure if you should move the db also though.