Kazaa for OSX!!!

[AHDuke99]

It's really here this time, no spam, no false sites. This is it. I can use the FastTrack network on my mac. It's hard to install but it's worth it.

Instructions on gottsilla.net/forums

[coolsoldier]

Has anybody actually gotten this to work?

[Huked on Fonick]

where do u dowload it from? link please

[AHDuke99]

yea, i actually got help from some guys at spymac. it's great one you get it running. It took me about a day.

[AHDuke99]

Originally posted by coolsoldier
Has anybody actually gotten this to work?

You don't download it. You make it. Go to gottsilla.net/forums. Click on Sticky: Compiling giFT. Follow the instructions. Then when you get it running, go to sticky: Installing fastTrack plug-in. Follow them. If anyone has a question you can ask me at AHDuke99@aol.com Good Luck.

[Huked on Fonick]

dont u need to download the daemon and a gui client whats it supposed to run on thin air, and those couple lines of code cant do all.... i see it in ur picture it says GIFT.....i cant make that window by running those terminal cammonds u gave me...

Edit below:

From http://www.gottsilla.net/forums

2. "cd" to the your giFT directory (the one with the sources you downloaded from cvs)


yea THATS what i need... now where do i download that?? I cant "Make that" i am not that skilled!!!!

[IndyGopher]

hmm.. looks promising, but on my first run-through I seem to have a problem with the debian package thing, dselect, actually installing any files. I can select the packages, but when I go to install them it says there are no new packages, etc. also, the
./autogen.sh CPPFLAGS=-I/sw/include LDFLAGS=-L/sw/lib --enable-gnutella
line results in an error partway through saying that (surprise) the libtool package that didn't install isn't there.

I will look at it a little more seriously sometime this weekend. it certainly seems promising.

[mkaake]

what do you guys mainly use kazaa for anyways?

matt

[sparkleytone]

thats not kazaa...its giFT. its basically a clone of the fasttrack network, but you still can't access the kazaa networks. kazaa has blocked out all open source implementations of their network.

this is essentially the same as giFTbox

[edesignuk]

OMG! What a huge pain in the arse! As much as I'd love to be able to access all the stuff on KaZaA from my Mac, I'll stick with the 'real' thing on my PC. This looks like way to much hassle.

[edesignuk]

Originally posted by mkaake
what do you guys mainly use kazaa for anyways?

matt
Use your imagination...:rolleyes:

[maradong]

i don t see why you should give yourself such a pain. first of all the fasttrack network is full of fakes. secondly, mldonky has integrated it already, and all you have to do to get mldonkey to run are 3 commands in the terminal...
am i wrong?

[tpjunkie]

i got it installed, compiled and ready to set up...but when i get to that step: type: "giFT setup" i get errors about missing protocol files... poop!

er wait, it seems to be working now

[AHDuke99]

Originally posted by Huked on Fonick
dont u need to download the daemon and a gui client whats it supposed to run on thin air, and those couple lines of code cant do all.... i see it in ur picture it says GIFT.....i cant make that window by running those terminal cammonds u gave me...

Edit below:

From http://www.gottsilla.net/forums

2. "cd" to the your giFT directory (the one with the sources you downloaded from cvs)


yea THATS what i need... now where do i download that?? I cant "Make that" i am not that skilled!!!!


there's an invisible file that is .tc something. it's in your home folder. it causes that error. remove it and it should work. also make sure you install fink through the termminal. http://fink.sourceforge.net/download/index.php

[AHDuke99]

Originally posted by sparkleytone
thats not kazaa...its giFT. its basically a clone of the fasttrack network, but you still can't access the kazaa networks. kazaa has blocked out all open source implementations of their network.

this is essentially the same as giFTbox

This is the fasttrack network. After you make giFT you install the FastTrack plug-in for Fasttrack. Since when does giFT have 4,000,000 users anyway. I've been getting tons of results using Poisoned(the GUI) and FastTrack.

[mkaake]

Originally posted by edesignuk
Use your imagination...:rolleyes:

thanks for the heads up on that one. i can, but i was more wondering if you guys use it to get music for free or trade programs or what.

matt

[tpjunkie]

it keeps not being able to find the @$%ing openFT protocol file after i've finished setting it up and attempt to run giFT for the first time in the terminal? whats going on?

[edesignuk]

Originally posted by mkaake
thanks for the heads up on that one. i can, but i was more wondering if you guys use it to get music for free or trade programs or what.

matt
Personally, I use it for anything, and everything...especially when I don't want to (sssshhhh) pay for it! ;) :p

[tpjunkie]

well i finally got it all working, but now i think the campus resnet has all the ports blocked!

[Sweetfeld28]

It sounds to me like a complicated program. Let me know when they come out with an all-in-one package of it, and i will use it. Till then i will stick with Acquosition and LimeWire.

[FattyMembrane]

i've been using the giftbox betas periodically and downloaded the new one when i heard about the fasttrack plugin. i followed the gotsilla instructions for building giFT and the fasttrack plugin, but gift would never launch (some problem with the config file) and the fasttrack plugin would never compile (something about a missing mac option in the makefile). does anyone who has compiled it have a link to a binary (pm or otherwise)? it should be a file called FastTrack.so located somewhere on your computer.

[bennetsaysargh]

can someone post the file on a server somewhere? (by file i mean the app and the plug-in or whatever)

[MrMacMan]

Originally posted by sparkleytone
thats not kazaa...its giFT. its basically a clone of the fasttrack network, but you still can't access the kazaa networks. kazaa has blocked out all open source implementations of their network.

this is essentially the same as giFTbox

did you listen this connects to openFT, the giFT network AND fasttrack with the plugin.

[visor]

looking at the instructions...

and thinking about kazzaa
and remembering not finding anything for the mac on it,
seeing slow speeds on the pc, and my limited HD space on the ibook
I don't fancy to set it up.

maybe once they hav an installer for it, but for the time beeing - i might as well port edonkey to macosx.

[mrjamin]

Originally posted by mkaake
what do you guys mainly use kazaa for anyways?

matt

I use it for downloading bootlegs. I have quite an impressive collection of obscure radiohead tracks and even more obscure REM ones (like "Smiling Furry Monsters" featuring Sesame Street)

My MP3s (http://benlancaster.co.uk/mp3z.htm)

[crassusad44]

if these guys are so smart, why did they not make an installer or an .app file with all the plug-ins included?

KaZzA is not worth this much hassle anyway...

[visor]

Originally posted by crassusad44
if these guys are so smart, why did they not make an installer or an .app file with all the plug-ins included?

KaZzA is not worth this much hassle anyway...

I think they are just writing 'gift' for linux, and run it under darwin.

the 'poisoned' is the actual osx frontend.

An interesting idea would be running poisoned on a mac, controlling the 'gift' daemon on some linux server, silintly serving in some closet, featureing no monitor etc.
As I have such a server... interesting ;)

[Wardofsky]

I use either Acquisition or Neo.
LimeWire and Kazaa netorks respectively.
Already compiled.

[scem0]

Originally posted by mkaake
what do you guys mainly use kazaa for anyways?

matt

mostly 'illegal' stuff.... http://www.my-smileys.de/devil3.gif

and the occasional legal download of a home video or something.http://www.my-smileys.de/kniep.gif

http://www.my-smileys.de/signs/77430bbce83afc89881430e177cabb9b.png

[Kethoticus]

I sense much XP in you,
XP leads to Blue Screen.
Blue Screen leads to downtime,
downtime leads to suffering.
XP is the path to the darkside.

Good God man! I... I may have already started down the dark path! I've already given in to XP... and I've had the blue screen... and then had the down time... and had much suffering... AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nah.

Had blue screens in OS X too, so I'm okay. Wait... unless OS X is XP in disguise?!?

NNNOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!

What is thy bidding oh Gateslord?

[MrMacMan]

Originally posted by Kethoticus
Good God man! I... I may have already started down the dark path! I've already given in to XP... and I've had the blue screen... and then had the down time... and had much suffering... AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nah.

Had blue screens in OS X too, so I'm okay. Wait... unless OS X is XP in disguise?!?

NNNOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!

What is thy bidding oh Gateslord?

What...


The...

Hell...

Was...

That...? :eek:

Somehow that post belonged here? :confused:


I suck as compiling, I get as far as the 'make' command and then it says there is nothing to make... wtf.

[Schiffi]

p2p I usually download foriegn songs that would cost $20 in shipping for one albulm (it has gotten higher). Or I download apps which I'm forced to use. (I.E. Windows OSes)

BTW, is there an iTunes script to make Winamp styled playlists?

[The Shadow]

Originally posted by AHDuke99
It's really here this time, no spam, no false sites. This is it. I can use the FastTrack network on my mac. It's hard to install but it's worth it.

Instructions on gottsilla.net/forums

Is it really worth it?

I'd joined iSareit or whatever it is, paid a small annual subscription, about the costs of a CD, download Limewire for OSX and you're good to go.

I couldn't ever be bothered with all that friggin around. But that's just me.

[coolsoldier]

You can greatly simplify the process if you just install it from Fink (since the directions require Fink anyway). I did, and it's running fine for me :)

[tpjunkie]

I couldn't find the package to install it in fink, so i spent 3 hours figuring out how to instal and set it up properly, but now that i got it working (of course, the fasttack plugin can't be installed now cause that server is down) i've gotten some of the other people with macs in the dorm to download the source and guided them through the installation...and its working great!!

[zuggerat]

is neo any good?...is there a lot of content? in terms of music and movies?

[Sofa King]

Originally posted by crassusad44
if these guys are so smart, why did they not make an installer or an .app file with all the plug-ins included?

KaZzA is not worth this much hassle anyway...

Agreed, spend the 15 bucks.


You know that some folks make money from acutual music sales?
Not just millionaire artists, but not so millionaires songwriters, publishers, producers, and engineers all make points on record sales.

take care

Sean McDonald

[Independence]

i used giFT for some time on my Linux system. in my opinion, it was simple to compile the core and the gui. and i was able to find quite a bit of music i was looking for. but some people get the impression that it really connects to the FastTrack network. it doesn't. as another user pointed out, open-source clients are blocked from FastTrack. giFT uses it's own network.