Advantages: Simple, efficient with a nice site to boot Disadvantages: Less control, hard to listen mid-download
What does the word galaxy mean to you? To most people, it means a huge area of space occupied by stars and other heavenly bodies held together by strong gravitational forces. To a select few (mostly women), it represents the height of pleasure – a large bar of chocolate to be bought from the nearest shop as often as possible!
What has all this got to do with Audiogalaxy? Well I'll tell you – precisely nothing! But it was a good way to ... ...but well – that would just be stupid – the only similarity is that it's huge! Anyway, I'm waffling rubbish here, so I'll get on with it shall I? (crowd breathes sigh of relief)
- What? Who? Why?
Ever since Napster started showing signs of gangrene a while back, I've been on the look for a viable alternative. I've been through quite a few programs, the most well known being Gnutella. However, none of them worked all that well (if at ...
Excelle 05.05.2001
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Advantages: nothing (anymore/at the moment) Disadvantages: it’s dead :o(
At first sight everything seems to be as usual: If you get to the front page of audiogalaxy.com, one of the most popular file sharing pages for mp3-files on the internet so far, you can still download the so-called, “Satellite”, this tiny program which I have spent so many happy hours with. This file sharing program that gave us the possibility of sharing an unlimited number of mp3-files with other users.
You can still search for songs ... ...of the page and you still get a large amount of search results. But something seems to be different. Some time ago, Audiogalaxy already started to use a filter that prevented the download of certain songs. That’s exactly what happened to Napster before it was finally closed.
But some days ago it was in nearly each case possible to outwit the filter by slightly changing the artist name or the song title for copyrighted songs. For example, if ...
Thiesy 02.07.2002
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Advantages: Comprehensive catalogue, easy to use, best since Napster Disadvantages: Not 100% uptime (but hey what does have it!)
Ever since Napster started threatening to fold/get rid of copyrighted material and bar people for trading it, I have been in search of a replacement for Napster. I have been dissatisfied with the likes of Aimster and Bearshare, and had my reservations about Audiogalaxy, although these reservations rapidly disappeared once I had tried it out.
The first difference between the Old King Napster and the new young pretender to his throne was the interface. ... ...only piece of software you have to download for Audiogalaxy is the Audiogalaxy Satellite which interprets the instructions sent from the webpage, since Audiogalaxy is essentially web-based. The download is also smaller and being web based there is less to download than was the case with Napster.
The log-in process is very easy, and Satellite saves your preferences and your details are then kept safely, and you won’t require your password or ...
Morgenhund 06.05.2001
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Advantages: Free, Fast, Ability to Resume, All songs available Disadvantages: None
Finally I have found a really beneficent program for download mp3's. First of all I had Napster. Remember when Napster was out it was famous. Now due to the court cases and copyright theft act Napster is lacking its program. Try looking for mp3's surely you wont be able to find them. So I came to ciao to read opinions on finding a better mp3 program than Napster. I came over all sorts of programs from KaZaA to Gnuttella. So I tried them all out which ... ...quit a a lot of memory and I found that the download time took longer than Napster.
So I came over Audio Galaxy. I was astonished it came out to be the best one yet. So I shall explain to all you members of ciao what exactly audio galaxy is and what it does.
///~What is Audio Galaxy?~\\\
As you may already know. Audio Galaxy is similar to Napster. You have the ability to share files and download files.
Not only downloading music, you can also ...
fromthedarkside 24.06.2001
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Advantages: Music Sweet Music Disadvantages: Slows up your connection, possible security risk
Audiogalaxy saved my life. Well maybe it’s pushing the point a bit but hey. You see I love music, “music was my first love and it will be my last music of the future and music of the past, To live without my music would be impossible do, In this world of troubles my music pulls me through” (there I go quoting dodgy John Miles lyrics from the 70’s doing my credibility no good at all), however being a family type I have more ... ...electricity bills. The only time I ever got to spend money on CD’s was my birthday and then I ended up blowing it on something dodgy and regretting it until my next birthday only to do it all around again. Well now it’s my birthday every day!! My sanity and normality have been restored and I can get pretty much any music I want. Woohooo. Audiogalaxy is, I suppose, a Napster clone. The idea is very similar, you simply download a nifty ...
DiazX 14.08.2001
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Advantages: FREE music! Easy downloads, easily resumed Disadvantages: Download speed of songs at 56k
Is this the best site on the Net? Well, if you've got even a passing interest in music it certainly ranks up there.
Napster is dead and buried (at last - I was never a big fan!) and Audiogalaxy is now the king of free music downloads.
Any band, artist or song - you'll find it all here. FOR FREE!!! Easy-on-the-eye web pages, easy download options - this site is exactly what the Net is all about.
Dance, rock, pop, R&B, soul, hip-hop, country, classical, ... ...your PC and burned onto a CD-R.
Sorry Mr Record Label boss, but never again is my hard-earned £15 going into your greedy pockets. I bought my last CD a couple of months ago - and Audiogalaxy means you never have to splash the cash again!
If you lose your connection or log off you can automatically resume your downloads next time you go onto the Net thanks to the discreet icon on your toolbar. It even runs in the background so you can download songs ...
ISmokeMarlboro 18.07.2001 (19.07.2001)
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Advantages: I love the list facility and the automatic downloading Disadvantages: Needs to be more flexible
Oh how we all wept when Napster shut – except I didn’t. Napster was plagued with usability problems, unresumable downloads, never having access to all of the shared music (Napster has/had over 100 servers and you could only see files on the server you were connected to) and the one that always bugged me – Forcing the user to remember what songs they want, what songs they have successfully got from that list and what songs simply ... ...that list can easily be a hundred songs long.
* Lesson 1: Getting Started *
First things first you need to pop over to www.audiogalaxy.com and download their ‘satellite’. This is Audiogalaxy’s client program that connects to their server. Once you’ve got the satellite you use the program to create your Audiogalaxy user account and then you can log on and start downloading. Except for ages I couldn’t. My first problem ...
yhwman 17.07.2001 (18.07.2001)
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Advantages: resumed downloads, free, large selection, user integration and involvement Disadvantages: impossible to use internet at the same time, no pause button, at first only one song at a time, no d/l prioritisation
After a ruling by US courts it seems that Napster, the internet music-swapping sensation, has finally had its day. The company has been ordered to ensure that all copyrighted music is no longer available for download via the service; fairly tough to do without killing it off altogether, I would imagine. As with all popular fads, Napster has attracted its fair share of imitations which are now becoming increasingly popular themselves, especially with ... ...original. One such imitator is Audio Galaxy (http://www.audiogalaxy.com), a similar peer2peer system which enables the swapping of mp3 files of all descriptions via the internet.
Surprisingly it seems that in this case the imitator has bettered the imitated; I for one certainly find Audio Galaxy by far the more attractive option. I was never a big fan of Napster, it must be said - slow downloads, pants reliability and lack of songs - but the advantages ...
mg_45 11.03.2001 (20.03.2001)
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Advantages: Huge catalogue of music, great coomunity site, useful to musicians looking to expose themselves to the music world Disadvantages: Hard to connect at busy times
Audiogalaxy at www.audiogalaxy.com is one of the newer breads of music sharing sites. When Napster was made to change many people went searching for new places that resembled the brilliant site that it was. Those that turned to Audiogalaxy, I think, gained the most. Audiogalaxy is a very good choice for MP3 downloads. It has taken the best of Napster and improved on its weaker sides.
But it is not just a file-sharing site; it is like a community ... ...themselves by posting their music, images and info on the site for free. Any Audiogalaxy member can sample this music and comments can be sent to the musicians themselves. This is absolutely brilliant for people starting off and trying to get recognised in the music industry. Another great thing for musicians is the fact that Audiogalaxy will offer 25mb of web space to do all this.
People who are just music lovers can have a great time at Audiogalaxy. ...
ncostall 27.09.2001
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Advantages: Focusses on music, innovative file searches, fast and resumable downloads Disadvantages: Strange file naming scheme, service is very busy in evenings
With the Napster file sharing network now so heavily restricted, many have been on the search for an alternative. And there has been no shortage of alternatives either. Audiogalaxy is one of these, and in my opinion it is one of the best. Let me expand on that.
Audiogalaxy distinguishes itself from the competition in a number of ways. Whilst most other networks allow you to share any type of file, Audiogalaxy - as the name suggests - only allows ... ...disadvantage at first, but in fact it means that it can specialise in this area particularly well. The other difference is that rather than just allow the user to search the files of those other users that are currently online, you can actually search files who’s users are offline. This gives you a much greater choice of files, which is particularly handy when trying to find more obscure files. If you try to download a file when its owner is offline, ...
Stalin 11.10.2001
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Advantages: Resumes downloads automatically,vast choice of music available,free. Disadvantages: Slows your computer down if you do to many at once.
Nowadays most of you will have found the advantages of downloading MP3’s. As oppose to actually shelling out for them it is a very easy and convenient way of getting hold of the latest CD’s.
There are various programs that most of you will have heard of or used, Napster and it’s rocky road to disaster thanks to copyright problems and Morpheus with it’s old fashioned search and its hit and miss full track problems.
However ... ...use AudioGalaxy.
This particular music grabber is very different if you are used to the above and their clones, but it is far easier to use and much more reliable than the others too.
So let me explain to you exactly what you will get from www.audiogalaxy.com
GETTING STARTED
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Broksababie 28.03.2002
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Advantages: Fast, free, reliable Disadvantages: Not as good choice as Napster, no spoof songs!
Introduction ~~~~~~
Napster is now effectively dead as the only Mp3’s left on it are ones that are copyright-free, but now Audiogalaxy – what started as a Napster clone has become the new must download for those wanting free Mp3’s. How it works ~~~~~
To use Audiogalaxy you must download the Audiogalaxy satellite which takes no more than a few minutes to download. Once installed Audiogalaxy automatically puts a shortcut to Audiogalaxy ... ...want to get an Mp3 you simply go to the Audiogalaxy website and search for your song from there. Once you’ve searched it the results will pop up and you click the Mp3 you want and it starts downloading.
One brilliant thing about Audiogalaxy that makes it so much better when compared to Napster is how you can half of an mp3 one day for example and then get the other half another day. You don’t have to get the whole Mp3 at once, which ...
Disillusioned 17.06.2001 (21.07.2001)
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Advantages: Easy to use, Low ram and disk profile, Mac compatible!! Disadvantages: Sometimes can be a pain to log on to, sometimes slow and MP3's can be dodgy
...networks, and I also saw Audiogalaxy.com for the PC. It looked like the best, and it was -ALMOST- enough to make me want to go and trade in my iMac, but after a few weeks checking, I saw that a version of Audiogalaxy's Satellite software had been released for the Mac. So, what does the Satellite do? You organise -WHAT- you want to download online, via the website. Then, you fire up Satellite, and it will sit and grab your files for ya! The Satellite ... ...is my gameplan: * Audiogalaxy.com the logical successor to Napster * Limewire and * OpenNap servers * Hotline and Carracho Finally, my complete opinion on audiogalaxy and MacSatellite is it's invaluable if you suffer from MP3 addiction. If you have read my op, grab the software and trade your MP3's today. Those record company @£!$@%@'s can't keep up their act for long... WE WILL WIN IN THE END! Thanks for reading, definitely try this thing out, you'll ...
bigbtommy 01.09.2001
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Advantages: FREE, and they've got virtually everything. Disadvantages: I can't think of any.
Unlimited mp3s from literally every era, from waltzing to wicked, or simply boogie to dance.
Audio Galaxy is an excellent site where you can acquire almost any song you want to in mp3 format, and once you've got them it's pretty easy to burn them onto a standard cd or even convert via wave to an audio tape cassette. In fact the site is so good that up till now there is only one song I've not been able to get, but that's only a minor hindrance as ... ...the requested song on a file list, which when someone has it and is on line, it will automatically download to me.
The idea behind Audio Galaxy is a simple share system where by downloading a small executable you are given a free connection to the AG Satellite. This little baby just sits in your system tray and waits for you to pick the tunes, which is really easy, then it proceeds to download them to your hard drive behind the scenes each time ...
Trev1000 20.04.2001
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Advantages: Very fast and reliable Disadvantages: None that I can think of
...an account at the website audiogalaxy.com here you will choose a user name etc and when you launch to the net with the software running you will automatically be logged in even without visiting the site, cool huh? The site will also you to set up a folder on your hard drive where downloads should be stored to, remember where this is or you will not know where your music is going! You can also set up more than one folder if you wish.
Once you have ... ...search engine what songs or artists you are looking for, the search engine will come back with 1,000’s of songs and artists etc depending on what you search for.
When the search comes back there are several things to consider when choosing which version to download on to your PC? They are as follows: ~
Availability ~
This is depicted by a little block of bars and will be shaded in green for availability, the more green that appears the more reliable ...
Squidget 16.05.2001
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