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Any good Mac OS X P2P apps out there?

Hieronymus

03:28 / 07.05.03

I just finished loading this lousy piece of #$@! Cocoa-native version of Soulseek in an effort to find a decent reservoir of tunes and man does it suck.

Does anyone know any good X native peer to peer programs? I had a Kazaa program called Neo for a while but the host selection is pretty poor.

iconoplast

03:36 / 07.05.03

limewire is pretty much it, as far as I know - what I've always used, and the only app I've ever heard of. Didn't even know there were alternatives, even if they sucked.

John Brown

04:49 / 07.05.03

Depending on what you're looking for, you could try Direct Connect or Acquisition.

The former's interface leaves more than a little to be desired, but I find more that I'm looking for. The latter is another Gnutella client with a nice interface and iTunes integration, but I find less of what I'm looking for.

Red Cross Iodized Salt

05:00 / 07.05.03

Acquisition is just another Guntella client (like Limewire, except its written in Cocoa instead of Java) but it runs pretty smoothly, interfaces well with iTunes and gets better connections then most.

Direct Connect gets a wider range or files, but its hell trying to coax a full download out of it.

There's also a Java version of Soulseek (which will run in OS X) in the works. Its still in pre-alpha, but it looks promising. Hopefully they'll update soon.

A slightly dated guide (it lists Audiogalaxy) to P2P clients for OS X is available here.

I find that the only real way I can find anything I actually want is to run Kazaa lite, Soulseek and WinMX on a Windows box...

Red Cross Iodized Salt

05:03 / 07.05.03

If I could just remember that UBB tags don't work here I'd be able to post faster

thechad895

18:35 / 28.03.04

its called poisned it connects to the kazaa and other networks
its at http://www.gottsilla.net/poisoned.php

Hieronymus

18:49 / 28.03.04

Yep. Poisoned is yummy, though it seems to have really bad flake out problems with its interface sometimes. At least in my experience.

lekvar

22:37 / 29.03.04

I've used both iSwipe and eDonkey. eDonkey was the more stable of the two, but I seem to recall it being a little more difficult to set up, as I had to download a separate GUI. It tapped a good range of networks, though.

matsya

23:31 / 29.03.04

Go with acquisition. I've been using it for a while, running OSX, and it's all good. Nice interface an' all. Customisable and userfriendly too.

m.

Tom Coates

10:54 / 31.03.04

I'll add another vote for Acquisition. It's high-quality, free, does song previews and integrates with Amazon and iTunes. It's also stable and - increasingly - there's a bloody good selection on Gnutella if you look hard enough.

mynci

00:58 / 08.04.04

try this guide for getting the nicotine soulseek client to run under apple's x11 distribution. it's pretty fiddly to set up, but the instructions are fairly straightforward, so as long as you don't mind a bit of messing around in terminal. oh, and if you don't have panther it involves some BIG downloads (developer tools etc) so don't even think about it without broadband. it's definitely worth the not inconsiderable effort though.

poisoned is okay but i can never find anything i want on it. and, of course, there's always bittorrent... azureus is nice.

Red Cross Iodized Salt

03:52 / 08.04.04

That Nicotine install is a headache. I had to delete Fink and reinstall before I could make any headway with it, and even then I got stumped again at step two of the manual install (there's something wrong with the command supplied on that guide and I couldn't get it to run any further). Will have to try again tomorrow with a clear head and an O'Reilly Unix guide open beside me...

Yotsuba & Benjamin!

15:17 / 08.04.04

That Nicotine install, once you get it going, is the absolute bee's knees and my official choice for MAC P2P CLIENT IN 2004.

Red Cross Iodized Salt

23:43 / 08.04.04

Ah, found out what I was doing wrong. Was using tcsh instead of bash. Seem to be installing now...

Keith, like a scientist

13:33 / 30.04.04

How about Mac OS 9 (shudder)? I'm running OS X at home, but still forced to use OS 9 at work (argh, crap, crash!). I'm desperate to find something today and would love to install a good P2P for OS 9.

nedrichards is confused

10:49 / 01.05.04

Just tried Nicotine and it's good, I'll give it a go for a while and see if it grows on me. For those without slight computer knowledge go for Acquasition every time, it's newbie scale easy and really well integrated with the whole OS X 'experience'. It's also updated regularly with protocol improvements and UI tweaks that don't always add features so much as usability improvements. In short, it's really cool and well worth giving him money (although you don't have to).

nedrichards is confused

10:51 / 01.05.04

Oh and Nicotine warning, a two button mouse would be useful as the Ui depends on the ability to night click (and X11 didn't seem to trap my ctrl+click).

moofman

01:45 / 03.05.04

Use command/apple + click to get the menus and etc., shift click to select blocks of files, and control-click to select more than one individual file

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