UPDATE;I was typing since JimH and Doof posted,my post has to be "see" as after the first Doof one
Well.i will try to put what i think in an allmost good english..........
First keep in mind that JRiver is not only a jukebox,and they are not in the easyer situation concerning p2p.They make bread from it selling they jukebox, but they have other projects making supporting p2p ,even only in an open\free forum is not the best behaviour they can have.
If you know it,or you accept it or you go to any other places.
But since few months,there is no wise balance on Interact-and not only concerning p2p,but at the general level.The forum as today is not the one i found when buying MJ 7.2 one year ago.
We are now in a situation akin to a town with half the population prostitutes,the other half having sex with them few times a week and the local health-center saying they do not want to ear about sexual diseases.
I would like the next pool to be:"do you have any music coming from a p2p on your computer" yes no
Do you want to bet about the result? A 80-95% of yes INCLUDING part of Jrivers staff.
Do all of this raison enought to have posts 'what is the best P2p',
"where can i find 60' Rock$roll",the answer is NO
There is other places with this kind of stuff.If someone really wants a p2p\MJ user forum or chat,you can open home page free,even have a good forum at no cost or very small price.
But i would like the word p2p not provocating the same reaction than the word AIDS 10 years ago on Interact.
I would like to be able to post a link 'here is a link with review of all existing p2p'
or: 'there is a new trojan in some Kazaa files. Here a link to a free program to scan your drives.'
When Audiogalaxy was shut down,i was downloading from it.I posted:'Audiogalaxy shut down,do not try to use it anymore'.Only this .My post was deleted after 4 minutes.
It was a stupid thing to do.It was an info,like Yahoo! shut down Email services'.But because it was a AIDS\p2p , it was deleted.
If JRiver does not want a post to start to 'blow-up' about some topics,there is still the 'close the post' solution.Like it the info stays for other members.
Concerning the posts about some users having problem with MJ and Bearshare[?].
To close the post saying'it not a place to speak about p2p 'is a VERY STUPID answer.
This people do not speak about a p2p.They speak about a program who makes problems to MJ.
MJ need to have a look.Maybe there is a still unknow bug in MJ.This is the occasion to fix it.Maybe MJ has a problem with the p2p fonctions.I mean on a general level,there is more than Napster,p2p is a protocol that many 'no music files' softwares use.
It can be that MJ has not any problem with the p2p protocol and that the problem is only with this music files p2p,and they do not see a work-around to solve the problem.
If the only answer is to close the post,in this case i have an answer as much as stupid:"do not use MJ,buy another one".
As a power xx p2p user i never had any conflic MJ\p2p software.
If yes ,i would post.If post closed,ok.But to me using p2p is more importantthan to use MJ,and i am not the only one like it.I would stop to use MJ
It is funny that posts like "how can i rip streaming music to my hard drive" is not a problem on Interact.
The answer you get is this one: "Use TotalRecorder.But you can do it with MJ using Mixer[?] go to...open.... set ...to ... and here you are ,you rip a stream,thank you MJ!
But as far as i know most of the streams are not to be rip.Can be an artist putting some full songs to listen to.But this artist does not want this songs to be rip,just to be stream.In my opinion,it is a very fair deal that an artist put some full songs to stream.
To rip the songs is even more unfair than to use a p2p.Unlike many,this artist\label gives you something,and you betray them .
The other case is if you pay to stream music like with some services.You know you pay to get stream,not rip.You buy this service because you want it,you say "yes" to the agrement and 2 minutes latter you do not respect it by ripping the stream!!!!!!!!
And not only you can post about it without problem,but you can made something illegal using MJ............
I really like MJ,even more Interact and i like JimH.
But i really feel the 3 of them have to think about another way to deal with some issues
Now,let me tell you about using p2p not to share music.
I did a test with a friend who is in a town 40 kilometers from Tel-Aviv.
I sent him a picture.So you know the way=email,upload the picture to server=open email,download from the server.Even with both sides on ADSL,not that fast.
I changed the name of the picture to 'zevmau'[his name is Maurice]
Both of us running Imesh=search=download at 75 kp\s .Much easy and fast than with email