From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 15 15:59:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 62A1D37B405 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 15:59:02 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 79472 invoked by uid 100); 15 Mar 2002 23:58:50 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15506.35514.234616.234646@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 17:58:50 -0600 To: Brian T.Schellenberger Cc: phil.murphy@shaw.ca, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Downloading mp3 files (Really: how to find packages) In-Reply-To: <20020315132040.A31FABA05@i8k.babbleon.org> References: <20020315051116.25844.qmail@web11303.mail.yahoo.com> <20020315132040.A31FABA05@i8k.babbleon.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: "Mike Meyer" X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.48 (Python 2.2 on freebsd4) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In <20020315132040.A31FABA05@i8k.babbleon.org>, Brian T.Schellenberger typed: > On Friday 15 March 2002 12:11 am, you wrote: > | I now have my sound card configured, and xmms loaded. I want to install > | something similar to Morpheus, Napster,... to use in FBSD 4.5. I have > | searched the ports page and google, but mainly come up with mp3 > | players, converters, etc. Could someone please point me in the right > | direction? What sources of mp3 files do you use, or what program do you > | use to search for, and download, them? > Well, speaking personally, I don't. If I was going to use MP3s I'd rip them > off my CDs. If I didn't have CDs to rip them from, then clearly I don't > actually have the rights to that music, so I wouldn't download it. On the other hand, if you just have them on vinyl, then getting them over the internet might be the easiest way to get mp3s of them - especially if you no longer have a record player. > ls -d /usr/ports/*/*nap* for various napstar-like ports ; and ls -d > /usr/ports/*morph* for various morpheous-like ports. > > You'll find both "napster" and "morpheous" ports there, though the FreeBSD > morpheous port is in the graphics section, which makes me suspect it's a > differnet morpheous entirely. morpheous doesn't appear to be a file sharing tool. Personally, I use gnut, in net/gnut, which access the gnutella network. There's also audio/agbrowser, which is an audiogalaxy browser. It requires the KDE libraries, so I haven't given it a try, but I hear good things about audio galaxy in general. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message