Napster: Upgrade now, old version will be shut down...
Posted on 28/06/01 12:41 by Robin van Lieshout                             
Napster: Upgrade now, old version will be shut down...

As we reported a few days ago, you were able to download more music with the new napster beta 10.3. Well it seems like this is not completely true. Many users are saying that with new versions available, you are able to share fewer and fewer files. A comment from a napster user: "Napster allowed me to share about 160 of the nearly 700 MP3 files in my shared folders. Napster (version) 10.3 allowed me to share zero files, not more files".

A new move from napster is to shut down all users who use old versions of Napster. They were saying that they would do this late Wednesday night. I just tryed to log in with beta 9.6 and it still works. But I guess they will shut me down in just a matter of time.

Napster is funneling people to a new version of the software that includes technology supposedly able to identify a song accurately using a digital representation of its sound. When it released the software last Friday night, the company touted it as a way to release many previously blocked songs back into its network.

CNET News.com readers, however, report that almost no songs are getting through the network with the new software. A quick look at the Napster network gave access to about 1,600 songs--fewer than some MP3 lovers have on their own hard drives.

According to consulting firm Webnoize, which has tracked Napster usage over the past few months, the average Napster user was sharing just 1.5 files by Wednesday morning, as compared to about 220 files in February.

Also webnoise sees that the number of files keep dropping. The comment from Napster is that the filtering system has some bugs, and they are working on that. I think they must introduce the new subsciption based service very soon. Else Napster will become the latest dotcom failure

Source: C|net

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By Guest, Thu 28 Jun 2001 12:58
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Napster is dead it whas fun as long as it lasted..
By Guest, Thu 28 Jun 2001 14:41
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With version 2.0 Beta 10.2 I cannot login anymore ! " * Napster version 2.0 beta 10.3 for Windows has arrived! Using this new * version of the application will allow Napster to continue complying with the * court's injunction while also improving the Napster experience. * * In order to comply with the court order, we'll soon be disabling previous * versions of the Napster application -- so download Beta 10.3 now at * http://www.napster.com/download/ * You must upgrade your client at http://www.napster.com * Disconnected from Server! Thu Jun 28 14:36:47 2001 * Currently not connected to Server, no need to disconnect! Thu Jun 28 14:36:47 2001" Napster is truely DEAD !!! cry
By Guest, Thu 28 Jun 2001 14:54
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Downloaded new version now ! I am sharing now exactly 0 songs !!! puke With the old version about 20, even if I try to share about 900 songs ! I hate them, really ... But it isn´t their fault, the company which I should say thx to, is RIAA ! Damm ****heads ! Smilie Oh yes, here more stats: 1402 users online, sharing 1831 songs, 8 GB ! Impressive ! They destroyed our music sharing program ! I hope Napster comes back soon, bcz it is one of the best sharing programs ! Even if I have to pay some $ for the usage ! But right now, Napster is UNUSABLE ! Cya ! N.B. WebMaster @ Free CDR Recording Software
By Guest, Thu 28 Jun 2001 15:06
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The King is death..... Long live the King.... :4 Indeed it was fun.. but lets move to a new King now. devil
By the111, Thu 28 Jun 2001 16:08
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yes... arise new king! http://www.audiognome.com audiognome rox!!! :7
By arnesr, Thu 28 Jun 2001 17:01
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http://www.zeropaid.com/edonkey/ Highly rated, beats Napster, Bearshare, audionome and all the others! Log on now and share your files to make it even better
By Guest, Thu 28 Jun 2001 23:17
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audiogalaxy www.audiogalaxy.com check it out

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