following the reaper wrote:
Just use DC++ foolish mortals.....
I don't see how anyone can use that program. I did once for a pretty long time mostly for lack of alternatives, and it's just too much work. You have to babysitt the program.
You connect to a hub wich has a couple of thousand users (compared to just under a million users on Donkeyserver No2), get spammed by alot of messages about how you have to add some stupid signature to your username + about 50 nazi rules authored by the hubs nazi owner.
You do a search for an album only to get 5 or 6 scattered songs in different bitrate shared by idiots with 56k modems. There actually are a couple of hundred songs that fit your search-criteria, but very few people have slots open.
You start downloading a couple of songs only to discover that the download speed is about 950 byte/sec, so you stop the downloads and do another search in hope of finding a faster source. You find a few of them, but everyone you try to download from disconnects about a minute after you've started your download.
By this time you have been kicked off the hub for some reason (too many searches, WAV-files, VOB-files, child pornography (??), the name of a folder in your MP3 directory happens to include the word "temp", EXE-files...) and banned for 24 hours.
Seriously... why needs all of this?
Rare stuff.