@tristan Audio Galaxy was extremely accessible, probably the most accessible file sharing software I ever used, but then it became rhapsody, which was not accessible or free. @jaybird110127 @FreakyFwoof
@technocounselor Napster was also hugely accessible, and just worked. @tristan @jaybird110127
@FreakyFwoof Yeah, that was my first exposure to file sharing, then when it got shut down I switched to audio Galaxy @tristan @jaybird110127
@technocounselor @FreakyFwoof @tristan @jaybird110127 Audio galaxy was the best. That in WinMX.
@Orinks Oh yeah! @FreakyFwoof @tristan @jaybird110127
@technocounselor @Orinks @FreakyFwoof @tristan One trick I remember from the Gnutella/Shareaza days: There were lots of malicious peers which would respond to your search query with seemingly *exactly* the thing you searched for. Whatever they were offering was not, in fact, what you wanted, but was no doubt nothing any responsible person would want. So the trick was to use search filters, which worked locally on collected search results. So if you wanted to search for a copy of the Onj track called "Dinner Soon Come," for example (no, I never did pirate any Onj tracks or even try to do so), you might search for "dinner come." Then when results started coming in, you'd add a search filter for results containing the word "soon." Just like that, instantly, all of the malicious gobbledygook results would disappear. The reason was that filtering was done locally, so there was no way the malicious peers could possibly know what local filter you used. So if you always left a crucial word out of the searches you submitted, then filtered for that crucial word locally, you were sure to weed out all of that nonsense.