Gnutella newbee

[giantsaholic]

Hello all.
Doing file sharing for a long time, never used gnutella clients though. I'm wondering... 2-3 years ago, using Napster, I got to find looaads of rare and live and demo and boot stuff of my favourite bands. Now, using different P2P, I just can't seem to find that anymore. Is it me, or is it just the way it is?
Thanks everybody for your suggestions.
Kim

[mark7]

Gnutella is the largest P2P network. If you cannot find it here then it is probably not online

[bar_mar_mar]

Heh that's not true at all. Gnutella is not the largest; even if it were, connecting to the largest network is not always the best way to find rare files.

Try searching with KaZaA, Blubster, Filetopia, SongSpy, etc.

[Matthew T]

I think it is the best network.

[vsprincess]

I NEVER POSTED THAT!!!

[~Brittney]

FileTopia is a great new system.
Only problem: Damn bad GUI and no search results + hard for newbies to use (Hell it took so long for me to understand what it was about!)

[Eva T]

Hello!

Yes the stats you provided is accurate but a bit missleading.

It is true that for Music Swapping AudioGalagy was the king of File Sharing Programs.I used to use it alot by accessing their network trough Mac Satellite.Personally I really miss AG and used it almost every day and everytime I had downloaded something from that network that I could not find on Gnutella I would put it in my Shared Directory so that it was available trough Gnutella too.Lets hope that many of AG users choose Gnutella to put all their files on.It sure would be a great injection on Gnutella!.But I suspect that most of them will select FastTrack since it also has a centralized index and I think that they preferr such solutions.But if the RIAA gets to them then they will probably come to Gnutella.

Most of the files on AG was duplicate files so the number of exclusive files was not that many(after all 10 billion songs have not been made during the entire human history so it is not possible).The Swedish developer behind FastTrack estimated that in average there where 30 copys of each file on AG which give the result 333 million individual files available.And also on AG the files where indexed on a centralized server which mean that always the number of files available would be constant or increase as new files where made available trough its users(but ofcourse not always available and you would be put in a Satellite Que).On Gnutella the content indexed constantly changes and also you are always connected to a specific segment of the network(the horizon).So it is hard to estimate the number of files available.

But I think that that is part of the charm of Gnutella you never know what will come up on your next search!But ofcourse at times it will give you alot of work finding the file you are after.No Satellite Ques on Gnutella!

[johncoolgun]

List the top 10 network that have the most users in order.

[jordanm]

You could typically search the entire network with Napster since it was centralized. But those types of networks are easier to shut down. You can't search all Gntuella nodes at once since that would progressively generate too much traffic.

[anonymous24242424]

Thanks Joakim, I need that...
I got most of my music that way.
Heja Sverige!!