Getting music files

[Kerrbear]

HI I'm a new member here and I am running Red Hat 8 Linux. I'm a newbie to linux and am wondering if there is a program that is similar to Kazaa, made for Linux computers. I would like to download music but cannot seem to find a program that is capable of doing this.. Thank you very much and if you have any advice just let me know!

[Calum]

mozilla is capable of downloading music if you know where to find it.

to answer your question though, there are a couple. there's xmule (which you can get using apt, see void's apt instructions) and there's also gtk-gnutella which acts as a client for both the bearshare and gnutella networks. There does exist a zazaa client too, but i can't get it to work and you are going to have a problem finding it online since kazaa deny all knowledge now. the filename is "kza-0.401" you might want to download this file, or look at this page, and you might want these instructions. That's about it off the internet. if i were you i would stick to gtk-gnutella.

[Copperhead]

Kazaalite works flawlessly through WINE. The first thing you will have to do is get WINE from here:

http://www.winehq.org/?page=download

Follow the installation instructions, and then get a Kazalite *.exe installation file from somewhere. I am using Kazaalite 1.7.2, but I know that newer versions have been released. If you want to see how to run different versions of Kazaa/Kazaalite with WINE, you can check out this page:

http://frankscorner.org/

I am using KLite v 1.7.2, so I will give you a blueprint to follow of how I got it to work.

Install WINE, setting up a 'fake_windows' directory on your Linux drive.

Just for the sake of testing WINE, I made a small Win98 partition, so I could could grab all of the *.dll files I would need. *.dlls are M$ propreitary, and WINE cannot ship some of them. If you don't have windows 98, you can search google for DLLs.

I copied all of my DLLs from the Win98 drive to the fake_windows drive:

# cp $WINDOWS_PARTITION_MOUNTED_DRIVE/windows/system/*.dll \
~/.wine/fake_windows/Windows/System

Then, I installed kazaa through wine:

# /opt/wine/bin/wine kazaalite_v1_7_2.exe

That will launch wine, and run the installer, which looks just like InstallShield on Window$.

After it installs, I run this command when I want to run Kazaa:

# /opt/wine/bin/wine ~/.wine/fake_windows/NAME_OF_DIRECTORY_WHERE_KAZAA_WAS_INSTALLED/Kazaa.exe -dll comctl32,shlwapi,shdocvw=n

It works great. It just takes a little poking around with to get it going. WINE can run a rack of other windows programs as well. Take at look at http://frankscorner.org and have a look.

[dishawjp]

Hi Kerry!

Glad to see that you took my advice and joined this list! One thing you may need to play back the .mp3 files once you download them is a plugin to XMMS. The filename is xmms-mp3-1.2.7-21.p.fr1.i386.rpm. I downloaded it for you and you can stop by my office to pick up the disk when you want.

Great to see you here!

Jim Dishaw

[Calum]

oh yes, you will need that with red hat. for those who are not within travelling distance of jim's office, you can install it using apt and synaptic (as i am sure most people here know, but i like everything to be properly footnoted), or else you can download it from the xmms.org website.