I found a new napster client a few days ago, Lopster, and it is
fantastic, way better than Gnapster. I have two gigs of new MP3s
this week. :) Screen shot of its download panel in action:
http://impressive.net/people/gerald/2001/03/24/lopster.png
I found the current release version (0.9.8) to be a little unstable
(would crash once in a while), so I downloaded and compiled the
current development version from CVS, and it's much better.
More info:
http://lopster.sourceforge.net/
http://lopster.sourceforge.net/main.php3?section=whatis
> What is Lopster?
>
> Well, Lopster is a Napster Client developed in C using the GTK user
> interface. Napster is a protocol for sharing MP3 files between users.
> With Napster, the files stay on the client machine, never passing
> through the server. The server provides the ability to search for
> particular files and initiate a direct transfer between the clients.
> In addition, chat forums similar to IRC are available
>
> For which Operating System is Lopster?
>
> Lopster is developed on Linux and is mainly tested on a i586/Linux
> machine with kernel 2.3.51 and GTK 1.2.8
>
> It runs at least on the following platforms:
> * Linux
> * Solaris
> * IRIX
> * OpenBSD
> * FreeBSD
> * HP-UX
> * AIX
http://lopster.sourceforge.net/main.php3?section=features
| Features of the now available version (0.9.8)
|
| * Up-/download support
|
| * Firewalled up-/download support
| * DCC file transfer support
| * Bandwidth limitation of transfers
| * ability to suspend+resume downloads
| * Resume and autoresume support
|
| Search support (with advanced opennap features)
| * Search on Napster
| * Search in Library
| * Search in Hotlist
| * Search in Search Results
|
| Hotlist support
| * Notification when hotlist users are on
|
| Browse support
| * including the direct browse introduced with v2.0 Beta 8
|
| Filesharing support
| * including generic media files
| * tree view of library
|
| Chat support:
| * public messaging
| * private messaging
| * private messaging in separate window
| * ignore support (including public messages and emotes)
| * opennap channel operator extension support
| * Ability to set up friend users and enemy users
| * Automatic AFK message on incoming messages
| * colors scheme support
| * highlightet text for special words and friend users
| * support of colors in incoming and outgoing messages
|
| Generic features:
| * autoconnect to server and channels
| * autoreconnect on disconnect
| * logfiles for public, private and server messages and transfers
| * supports almost all admin commands
| * support of all additional opennap commands
| * TAB completion of commands and users
--
Gerald Oskoboiny <
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http://impressive.net/people/gerald/