What Is The Best File Sharing Software For Mac?

[aaron901]

I'm using Carracho at the moment but its too hard to find a particular program using it. is there a better client that works like iMesh?

[Tim Dorr Veteran]

He's my famous quote from irc:

timdorr: I think the best filesharing utility for the Mac is Virtual PC

I think the only thing that comes close at this point is Aquistion, Caraccho, and Hotline. There's also a Kazaa shadow client called Neo. it's a shadow client because it doesn't actually connect to the network, it just scans known Kazaa hosts for downloads... :)

[azazel-]

I kinda dig KDX. I've found quite a few little gems on there, as well as the chatroom function is pretty nice.

[wtmcgee]

i wonder if they'll ever actually release kazaa for mac?

also, direct connect is due out by the end of the month. :D

[akuma1]

if you know how to navigate newsgroups, you can find anything you want.

It beats neo/limewire/aquisition/gIFTBox/etc. hands down.

:D

[cerbero]

if you know how to navigate newsgroups, you can find anything you want.

It beats neo/limewire/aquisition/gIFTBox/etc. hands down.

:D

Most ISPs block binary groups though, right?

[akuma1]

Most ISPs block binary groups though, right?

That's a good question.

I don't know the answer. I do know that none of the ISP's that I've ever had have had blocked newsfeeds. I've been able to get to pretty much any binary group I can think of.

I can't speak for the other ISP's out there, though.

It takes a while to figure out how to actually get things from newsgroups, and you have to be very patient, but you can get a lot of good stuff.

Over the past 6 months or so:

I've d/l about 20 gigs of mp3's (at 192k) from newsgroups.

I've only been able to (successfully) d/l around a gig from programs like LimeWire/Neo/gIFTBox/aquisition.

I always try the p2p programs when a new one comes out, but it's just a lot easier for me to get things off newsgroups. It's usually faster also.

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[brn2prgrm]

I'd say the best file sharing app for Mac is Limewire, the only drawback IMO is that it's all java so it tends to be a little slow. I did manage to get my hands on the new upcoming optimized java vm from Apple and I did notice some what of an increase in speed but reorganizing search results is still a bit laggy. Neo is my second pick. If you sit down and download a lot of hosts from the master list and scan a few subnets overnight you'll be able to index a lot of hosts and produce some good results. Finally, if you feel you're the lucky type of person then try out Drumbeat X, it produces a lot of search results but only one in a million actually download. Neither of these are anything close to a kazaa client or other clients for the PC but they don't do that bad of a job. If you try any of these out and have questions feel free to give me a holler!

[Chad]

I always used Carracho as my non-music app. You get in one or two good servers and your set.

But sometimes I used iMesh through VPC. Which was easily better than any other program for mac. Aquasition is good, but not AS good.

[Gator]

Like a lot of people I use Carracho for non-music stuff and either Aquisition or VPC for music.

[cerbero]

Those of you who use Carracho.. Do you have access to private servers, or do you try and find a good one on Tracker-Tracker or such? I can never find any good servers that way, so I've never actually downloaded anything using Carracho :)

(please note I didn't ask for specific servers.. i know the board rules... :D)

[Chad]

Those of you who use Carracho.. Do you have access to private servers, or do you try and find a good one on Tracker-Tracker or such? I can never find any good servers that way, so I've never actually downloaded anything using Carracho :)

(please note I didn't ask for specific servers.. i know the board rules... :D)

Two of the servers I used were public, but you needed a username and pass. The other one was a private one, meaning you couldnt see it using tracker.

All i did was upload a movie or two, or a request at each one, and I got accounts. I dl the movies from imesh through VPC. Getting started with carracho is hard, but once you get an account and dl a couple things, you can upload to other servers and get accounts there.

[wtmcgee]

there's a good discussion aboout this going on @ macslash.org

[Wickedkitten Veteran]

I still swear by igetter

[bararum]

Soulseek (slsk.org go for the faq to find the versionull need) is pretty good there's a linux client for that which i hear can run on osx. Lotta music files..

[Tim Dorr Veteran]

Soulseek (slsk.org go for the faq to find the versionull need) is pretty good there's a linux client for that which i hear can run on osx. Lotta music files..

someone's almost done with an OSX client actually...since I have checked in a while, lemme see if it's out...nope, but hopefully, her'll have it done soon :)