Ever
since Napster's downfall, Web users have been
searching for alternatives. One of the most popular
is AudioGalaxy Satellite, which similarly lets
you download music tracks. You can search for
artists, tracks, and albums.
This program uses a Web-based interface along
with a "satellite" application on your
PC to handle uploads and downloads. The benefit
of the satellite applet is that AudioGalaxy can
schedule downloads to happen in the background.
The service tells you all the songs available,
even if the owner is not online at the time. When
the file becomes available, AudioGalaxy will download
it as long as you leave the satellite application
running.
The downside of AudioGalaxy Satellite is that
the system might have grown too big too fast:
Pages refresh slowly and sometimes not at all.
However, the program has a lot of useful features
to address this: You can stop downloads in midstream
and resume them at a later time. And you can make
requests for programs that aren't currently available,
so that once a person comes online with that file,
you can automatically download it from them. Finally,
because the program is Web-based, it consumes
little by the way of CPU power or memory, so you
can always keep it open--and check throughout
the day to see if the program you're looking for
is available.
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AudioGalaxy
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