Frostwire anyone???

HomerMcvie · #1 11-20-2011, 08:40 PM

Kazaa.....Limewire....Frostwire.....?

Who can give me the lowdown on what happened to these sharing services? I used Kazaa, until it was shut down...then Limewire....then Frostwire. I'm still occasionally able to find a song or two on FW, but it seems to be finished now, too, for the most part. Once in a while I'll find a song, but it's RARE to, now....

Can someone tell me, did something take it's place?

Where do y'all DL your free music?

Macfanforever · #2 11-20-2011, 10:11 PM

I wouldn't touch those with a digital 10 foot pole.I dont want to get fines up my rear-end.I notice youtube is getting tunes posted on it.They are not keeping up with the sound deletion or dumping the links.This is the first time I heard of Frostwire.

Dodfather · #3 11-21-2011, 04:02 AM

I hated Limewire. It was slow, unreliable and crammed with viruses. I know several people who lost really good computers to it. Good riddance!

I don't download free music much. If I want the odd tune I'll usually convert the youtube video using vidtomp3 or something similar.

MacFan92 · #4 11-21-2011, 11:12 AM

If I want a song I use mediafire. I just go to google, type in the artist name, song name, and the word mediafire, and then it usually shows up. If it's not there, then I try 4shared using the same process. And if I still can't find it I usually just give up and buy it on iTunes. I don't trust other websites. Last year when I was first getting into Fleetwoo Mac and Stevie Nicks I tried downloading the Bella Donna album off of some random website and it gave me laptop a virus, which cost me $200 to get removed.

HomerMcvie · #5 11-21-2011, 01:30 PM

Thanks guys!

Limewire was virus filled. I too, caught several viruses. I finally learned how to figure out, from glancing at their download info, which titles were legitimate, and which ones not.

Frostwire pretty much took the place of Limewire, with more virus protection. Frostwire still fires up fine, but 95% of the time, BOGUS files are all that's available. It's just like there are no legitimate people on there anymore.

Alan, can you give me a link, to that converter?

Dodfather · #6 11-21-2011, 01:54 PM

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Originally Posted by HomerMcvie

Frostwire pretty much took the place of Limewire, with more virus protection. Frostwire still fires up fine, but 95% of the time, BOGUS files are all that's available. It's just like there are no legitimate people on there anymore.

Alan, can you give me a link, to that converter?

Yup - that was the problem with limewire too.

I use www.vidtomp3.com