file sharing for mac- please help.

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ok so everyone is sailing past downloading 100000 million mb of music etc every day, i dont know how to because i have a mac. as ifar as i know kazaa soulseek etc arent avilable for macs. ed told me of something but i couldnt remember the name.
so what can i do? i tried getting limewire or something but that didnt seem to work
while we're at it, why is fruityloops available on mac? what fesh nonsens is this?

― ambrose (ambrose), Friday, 7 March 2003 17:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Neo is a Kazaa "shadow client" for OS X, and Direct Connect finally got around to making a Mac cient.

And I'm sure you mean "why is fruityloops NOT available on mac" because if it was available on Mac I'd be a much happier person.

― Nick Mirov (nick), Friday, 7 March 2003 17:38 (twenty-three years ago)

try carracho as well for file sharing.

― marcg (marcg), Friday, 7 March 2003 17:39 (twenty-three years ago)

I use Neo (great if you want popular stuff, not so good otherwise) and Acquisition (generally pretty crap) and Limewire (very clunky Java interface but OK).

None of them are much good though. Maybe they work a lot better if you have broadband. Neo is perhaps the best if you can put in the time building up lists of hosts (it would work well if, say, you could get everyone on ILM to install kazaa and then publish their IP addresses). Or anyone at all on ILM to do this. Anyone prepared to?

Apparently there is some UNIX hack into Soulseek that kind of works on Macs if you are running OSX but I am afeared of it.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 7 March 2003 17:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Direct Connect is fantastic for file sharing. Acquisition is alright nowadays, but the gnutella network it uses is kinda flaky as far as reliability goes. If you would rather use a client-server app, rather than p2p, check out http://www.haxial.com/products/kdx/

― Bobby D Gray (bedhead), Friday, 7 March 2003 18:25 (twenty-three years ago)

trying to get onto DC connect but as of now i still don't have a username/password. CRAP

― nathalie (nathalie), Friday, 7 March 2003 18:42 (twenty-three years ago)

I find some stuff with LimeWire, but rarely, and it's almost impossible to find indie/rare stuff, which is the only reason I download anymore.

Carracho can be great, if you can find an MP3 server that's up and trading. Maybe a Carracho server for ILM users would be in order? I'd donate as many MP3s as I could upload, but I don't know how to run a Carracho on this machine (wireless network with roomies).

― miloauckerman, Saturday, 8 March 2003 00:20 (twenty-three years ago)

And I'm sure you mean "why is fruityloops NOT available on mac" because if it was available on Mac I'd be a much happier person.

Dude, I hear you. But try Reason, 'cause once you get it figured out a bit (and it really doesn't take more than an hour or two) I reckon it's WAY better.

― OCP (OCP), Saturday, 8 March 2003 07:06 (twenty-three years ago)

aaaaa i wasnt specific enough. i onyl have mac os 9. not x. all this stuff is mac osx...any hope for me at all

― ambrose (ambrose), Saturday, 8 March 2003 13:30 (twenty-three years ago)

No, I think you should just hang yourself now.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 8 March 2003 13:36 (twenty-three years ago)

iSwipe is kind of alright and available for MacOS 9. The MacOS X Soulseek thing has stopped working for me completely.

― Graham (graham), Saturday, 8 March 2003 13:46 (twenty-three years ago)

seven months pass...

Bumped!

OS X Mac Users. What are you using currently?

― kinski (kinski), Saturday, 25 October 2003 13:14 (twenty-two years ago)

i tried many p2p options such as direct connect, KDX, etc. and none of them worked very good (but then i think they can be a pain too on the PC). i gave myself headaches trying to run neo or souleseek. also, poisoned messed with my firewall and created 1 GB logfiles in a matter of days. carracho could be good, but it seems like all the decent servers aren't free anymore. filesharing should have nothing to do with paypal.

in the best of world, a close network of friends serving all their files is to me the best p2p solution. OS X is highly convenient in that way - just keep your files in the "sites" folder of your home directory, turn on personal web sharing in the sharing system preference, and enjoy!

i sometimes use limewire (also on OS 9) if i only want a song, but i agree it doesn't always bring good results.

― anahata, Sunday, 26 October 2003 17:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Acquisition, still. mlMac worked for a bit as a Kazaa and Soulseek backdoor but now never lets me download anything.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 26 October 2003 18:07 (twenty-two years ago)

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 26 October 2003 18:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm using the nicotine slsk client and it works great.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Sunday, 26 October 2003 18:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I just moved mlMac to a different folder, which made it download the latest daemon (whatever that is) and now it's working again, for Kazaa files, at least. You have to try downloading about ten versions of the thing you're looking for each one that actually starts transferring right away, though.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 26 October 2003 19:19 (twenty-two years ago)

*Would like to ask Chris B what the hell he is talking about, but knows that he will get some indecipherable mentalist ramblings about "unstable trees" as a consequence*

Don't really understand what you are on about either, N. Just move it to a different HD folder?

― adaml (adaml), Sunday, 26 October 2003 22:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah - it seems to confuse it and think it needs to install the 'daemon' again (there's probably a way to to this from the menu, I haven't looked). Alternatively, just reinstall the whole thing.

Anyway, it's been working great this evening with Fasttrack (=Kazaa) files - the edonkey protocol seems to be knackered (there's a note about this in the FAQs) and Soulseek results are v.sketchy.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 26 October 2003 22:36 (twenty-two years ago)

(the new folder I moved it to was actually the Applications one, where it should have been all along - it had been sitting in my Downloads folder and I was doing some tidying up. Maybe that's what made the difference - who knows?)

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 26 October 2003 22:37 (twenty-two years ago)

You mac users get Logic exclusively and Reason, so don't be complaining about no FruityLoops. Bastards.

― Andrew (enneff), Sunday, 26 October 2003 22:40 (twenty-two years ago)

But Logic and Reason make terrible breakfast cereals.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 26 October 2003 22:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm getting some joy after a friend that knows sent me the following:

get it from:

http://abyssoft.com/news/

remove all other versions of it.

when you run it, it should say 'i need to get
mlnet ok?' say yes.."

― adaml (adaml), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 17:02 (twenty-two years ago)

does it work well? tell us your stories

― s1utsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 00:33 (twenty-two years ago)

is music available through bittorrent? I have just discovered this piece of brilliant software and it appears to work fine on my mac at work. different type of file sharing of course but good if there were a decent tracker for good music.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 00:35 (twenty-two years ago)

does it work well? tell us your stories

Well, it's kind of frustrating, but I have probably downloaded about 30-40% of what I want, which may be about average for Soulseek, I wouldn't know. I'm pleased with it.

― adaml (adaml), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 01:24 (twenty-two years ago)

bittorrent RULES.

check out sharingthegroove.org

Lots of great live stuff being traded.

― don weiner, Wednesday, 29 October 2003 13:19 (twenty-two years ago)

i got limewire working on mac osx. its lame and slow, and half the stuff never seems to download.

― ambrose (ambrose), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 14:13 (twenty-two years ago)

hmmm. i'm rather fond of limewire - i find it fairly reliable in fact (for certain things obviously)

― jed (jed_e_3), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 14:51 (twenty-two years ago)

arrghh after a couple of good dls on mlmac the thing is doing me no favours

'specially the soulseek stuff for obvious (and FRUSTRATING) reasons

― s1utsky (slutsky), Thursday, 30 October 2003 00:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I tried a bunch of them and had the best luck with Acquisition. I liked it so much I paid the shareware fee for it.

― Sean (Sean), Thursday, 30 October 2003 01:25 (twenty-two years ago)

DirectConnect has been treating me well for a while now. Tried mlMac recently but couldn't get it working. Acquisition sounds promising— I'll check it out tonight.

― Nick Mirov (nick), Thursday, 30 October 2003 02:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Poisoned is working out for me well tonight, if a bit slow - it searches all the major engines (direct conect, fastrack, etc) using an OS X app

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Thursday, 30 October 2003 03:12 (twenty-two years ago)

actually I've been having a better time with mlMac... gonna stick with it for a little while (though I am tempted to try acquistion!)

john, mlmac searches all the major engines too and that includes soulseek, which is kinda good, though there's no way of telling what your place in line is (or whether there is a line, or whether the user has gone off-line)

which is too bad

― s1utsky (slutsky), Thursday, 30 October 2003 04:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I have Poisoned, Acquisition, Soulseek X (????), Limewire, Carracho, and mlMac, but I can only find the good stuff with mlMac.

― adaml (adaml), Thursday, 30 October 2003 07:29 (twenty-two years ago)

do I ever want slskx to work good. do I ever!

― s1utsky (slutsky), Friday, 31 October 2003 20:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Me too, me too! :(

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 31 October 2003 20:59 (twenty-two years ago)

let's have a good cry about it!

― s1utsky (slutsky), Friday, 31 October 2003 21:06 (twenty-two years ago)

i can't get mlmac to do anything for me - things are listed but "not available" - am i doing something wrong?

― jed (jed_e_3), Friday, 31 October 2003 21:35 (twenty-two years ago)

See my pal's advice above. Worked for me.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 31 October 2003 21:41 (twenty-two years ago)

hmm - i got mlmac working but now im a bit worried its doing strange things - in the process of downloading 2 mp3's of about 100meg each my available capacitly on my harddrive went down from about 7.5 gig to less that 5 gig! theres something downloading at 30k/per sec that doesnt show up in the download window (one thing currently downloading at around 4k but my total downloads showing at between 30 and 40 k) i dont think i trust this thing!

― jed (jed_e_3), Saturday, 1 November 2003 18:40 (twenty-two years ago)

mlmac has been great until today- It just won't connecr to the "daemon". is anyone else having this problem?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 November 2003 23:43 (twenty-two years ago)

"connect"

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 November 2003 23:43 (twenty-two years ago)

And anyone who can explain this Direct Connect business to me gets a shiny penny and a pat on the head.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 7 November 2003 23:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Re: Acquisition, I've heard some people have trouble with the developer. Anyone used AcqLite, and if so, is it any good?

So far, reading this thread, mlMac seems to be the best bet in terms of access to rarer stuff, but I'm getting that it's buggy. Fair to say?

No shiny pennies or pats on the head for me, sadly -- all my head seems to do with all this stuff is spin.

― David A. (Davant), Saturday, 8 November 2003 00:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Have had trouble with the developer...

― David A. (Davant), Saturday, 8 November 2003 00:54 (twenty-two years ago)

There is a slsk client that does work (no chatrooms, but it seems to share & lets you download) in Classic:

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macos/20985

but! if you're running it in OS X, make sure to press command-I on the application icon and check the box that says "Open in the classic environment".

― locus solus, Saturday, 8 November 2003 01:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I tried it, and it won't connect.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Saturday, 8 November 2003 18:37 (twenty-two years ago)

It works, but no chat and no rooms, so mlMac still beats it by miles. (mlMac works every one in a milllion times wih slsk.)

― bnw (bnw), Saturday, 8 November 2003 19:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh the hell with chatrooms - Slsk for OS 9 works fffffine. :-)

― nathalie (nathalie), Saturday, 8 November 2003 19:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought the whole point of soulseek was leeching off your friends. Otherwise you can't really find the good stuff.

― bnw (bnw), Saturday, 8 November 2003 19:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Is anyone else fed up with this? Now the Liars album is out and I can't get that either. I hate the internet!!

*sulk*

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 20 November 2003 05:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I wasn't joking about Direct Connect - how does it work? Do you need to ask people and stuff? I can't seem to search anyone's goodies...

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 20 November 2003 05:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I am frustrated as hell.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Thursday, 20 November 2003 06:15 (twenty-two years ago)

We know. But why are you choosing to announce it on this thread?

*rimshot*

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 20 November 2003 06:16 (twenty-two years ago)

oh I'm singing it all over this land!

― s1utsky (slutsky), Thursday, 20 November 2003 06:22 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

so m1Mac is the way to go? (I want to d/l country and western standards and Morrissey rarities.)

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 9 January 2004 02:32 (twenty-two years ago)

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