Feb 06, 2002 01:00 AM
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(Updated Feb 06, 2002 01:00 AM)
You'll find it here, but you'll have to look a little deeper to get what you really want.
AudioGalaxy has an extremely huge database of music shared by its users. Definitely better than any other network, Gnutella excused. This colossal database however, is not without problems. Its also a huge mess, as is evident when you get your results. The artist column may have the album name, track name, movie name, or the genre, or even the producer of that song, and this is the case with all the fields! If you're into arguably rare music, then you'll need a good amount of time on hand, not to mention patience, to skim and comb thru the maddeningly absurd results that it shows up, everytime. And as if the artist - title - album - genre mixups aren't driving you up the wall already, we have IDIOTS in this world who can't rename their files after making copies, so you're face to face with results like ''Copy of Madonna''. I wish it ended there, but NO! These things are in all languages! Kopie von Madonna, Copie de Madonna, the list goes on! And it STILL doesn't stop there. We have different versions of the files, most of the popular ones being under 112k/bits, which is the lowest limit for acceptable CD Quality. And length, oh. What on earth are you people doing with 1 and 2 minute long pieces of songs? All these low quality and incomplete songs get downloaded more often because for some reason they're more popular, and its an endless loop, that can't be broken unless we users wake up and smell the carcass!
To find your file, simply use a little common sense. Search for what you want, for eg. ''Madonna Nothing Really Matters''. When you get high availability results, right click on the song title, and open in a new window. When you're presented with a choice between queuing the most popular version and limiting the result to a particular bitrate, ignore both and ''click here for an exact version''. You will be offered a list of all the available different versions of the song (with the same filename). Look closely, make sure what you're going to queue is at least 128k/bit, and of a decent length, like 3 min for a popular song, 6 to 8 min for techno/trance type stuff etc. Look a the timings of all the songs, and queue the longest length. Choose the item, and click Search. Sit back and relax with piece of mind as you get your music. Remember to share the good copy, to ensure that everyone else who doesn't go thru all this pain doesn't unsuspectingly end up wasting our efforts by queueing the most popular song, which wont be what you just got, and takes us back to square one.
And now its 1am and I'm really sleepy. I hope you guys got the idea. Just my two cents to try and make this world a better place...
