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  • 61 of 61 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Excelle

    4 Stars My god, it's full of stars 05/05/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Simple, efficient with a nice site to boot

    Disadvantages 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 start my opinion anyway. I suppose you could draw comparisons, but well – that would just be stupid – the only similarity is that it's ... more
  • 51 of 51 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Thiesy

    2 Stars Bye bye Audiogalaxy 02/07/2002
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages nothing (anymore/at the moment)

    Disadvantages 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 or artists by using the search bar at the top of the page and you still get a large amount of search results. But something seems to be different ... more
  • 34 of 34 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 7 Morgenhund

    Member since 26/07/2000

    Reviews written: 574

    5 Stars Why have Napster when you can have Audiogalaxy 06/05/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Comprehensive catalogue, easy to use, best since Napster

    Disadvantages 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. Whereas Napster was entirely reliant on it own software, the only piece of software you have to download for Audiogalaxy is the Audiogalaxy ... more
  • 32 of 32 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    fromthedarkside

    5 Stars The Galaxy Of Audio 24/06/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Free, Fast, Ability to Resume, All songs available

    Disadvantages 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 did not seem to compete at all. They took up quit a a lot of memory and I found that the download time took longer than Napster. So I came over ... more
  • 38 of 38 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    DiazX

    5 Stars Lost in Music 14/08/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Music Sweet Music

    Disadvantages 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 important things to spend money on like food, clothes and electricity bills. The only time I ever got to spend money on CD’s was my birthday ... more
  • 28 of 28 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    ISmokeMarlboro

    5 Stars Now That's What I Call Free Music 18/07/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages FREE music! Easy downloads, easily resumed

    Disadvantages 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, spoken word, comedy...it's all there waiting to be downloaded to your PC and burned onto a CD-R. Sorry Mr Record Label boss, but never again is ... more
  • 29 of 29 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    yhwman

    4 Stars This is the hand that bends ears - I 17/07/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages I love the list facility and the automatic downloading

    Disadvantages 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 failed. I guess that’s only a problem for me because that list can easily be a hundred songs long. * Lesson 1: Getting Started * First things ... more
  • 25 of 25 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    mg_45

    5 Stars Better than Napster 11/03/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages resumed downloads, free, large selection, user integration and involvement

    Disadvantages 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 the threat of destruction looming over the head of the original. One such imitator is Audio Galaxy (http://www.audiogalaxy.com), a similar ... more
  • 28 of 28 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    ncostall

    5 Stars An Audio Lovers Home, Galactic in Every Sense 27/09/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Huge catalogue of music, great coomunity site, useful to musicians looking to expose themselves to the music world

    Disadvantages 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 for music lovers. Musicians have the chance to expose themselves by posting their music, images and info on the site for free. Any Audiogalaxy member ... more
  • 25 of 25 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Stalin

    4 Stars Beats Napster hands down 11/10/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Focusses on music, innovative file searches, fast and resumable downloads

    Disadvantages 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 the sharing of audio files. This may seem like a disadvantage at first, but in fact it means that it can specialise in this area particularly well ... more
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