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CNET Editors' review
Clickster offers users a free and fast way to track down MP3s. While its results were a little scattered, the program lives up to its billing by finding free and legal songs online.
Clickster's interface is easy to navigate, though it took a few practice runs to decipher all the odd-looking command icons. Regardless, after a couple minutes we felt intimately familiar with this program's operations. Clickster operates similarly to other software that searches for MP3s, such as the infamous Napster. You merely need to enter a song title or an artist to begin your search. This is simple enough, but unfortunately, the results it yielded were the low point of the program. The song lists were skimpy, since the program only searches for songs on free sites like MySpace. For example, when we searched for "Jingle Bells," a song recorded hundreds if not thousands of times, it only found seven results. However, these songs played clearly enough. Furthermore, we were highly impressed with Clickster's ability to save songs to our hard drive as regular MP3s, which any player can handle. This program's best feature is a direct link to download songs on MySpace, which is much appreciated since the site traditionally only allows listening, not downloading. Overall, this program could have offered better song results, but it still found free music.
Clickster is freeware. It leaves behind Start Menu items after uninstalling. Despite some rough patches, this is still a reasonably good MP3 finder, and we recommend it.
Publisher's Description
From Remlap Software:
Providing a real and legal alternative to P2P software, Clickster easily finds and downloads MP3 files from the Internet and not other P2P networks like Limewire and Bearshare. Tracks can easily be previewed/played without any need to download the track first. Clickster also incorporates MySpace Music and ShoutCast Radio Ripping, for even more MP3s.
What's new in this version: Version 1.63.4.2 is a maintenance release.
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"Free software and easy to use"
Version: Clickster 1.63.4.2
Pros
Easy to install and use.
Cons
Search results are minimal
Summary
How can you complain..Free software for free downloads
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"ok, easy to work"
Version: Clickster 1.63.4.2
Pros
Downloads are fast and easy
Cons
very limited selection
Summary
I usually don't find songs that I am looking for. In all fairness, most ofteh music I look for is very ole
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"BAD DUMB CONCEPT DOWNLOAD A REAL P2P MUSIC PROGRAM"
Version: Clickster 1.63.4.2
Pros
NOTHING AT ALL AT ALLAT ALL
Cons
THESE PROGRAMS ARE RUINED THE P2P PROGRAM NETWORKS THE RIAA AND EVERYBODY INVOVLED WITH THE P2P LAWSUITS SHOULD GET LOST.MORPHEUS NEEDS TO COME BACK
Summary
MORPHEUS NEEDS TO COME BACKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
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"won't download songs from MySpace"
Version: Clickster 1.63.4.2
Pros
could be a good concept - can't tell without it working
Cons
another FREE product it feels like i paid way too much for in time
Summary
maybe the $50 paid one actually works to download myspace songs
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"great idea, too bad it don't work"
Version: Clickster 1.63.4.2
Pros
love the idea of downloading music without using P2P when it actually finds something.
Cons
It may be easy to use if you're a computer geek, but not so for the rest of us. Wasted several hours fartin around with this thing just to get one song.
Summary
If you have lots of time to waste and patience to go with it, you may actually get something out of it. As for me I'm going back to P2P.
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"Fair choice in size/cost/simplicity"
Version: Clickster 1.63.4.2
Pros
Small, easy to use, free, you can listen to the songs before DL, multitasker, fast DL...
Cons
Not so many finds.
Summary
You can find something, it's easy to use, downloads vary in speed.
Also has a browser that supposedly would access and download songs from myspace pages, but it didn't with any song I tried -
"It's not working at all"
Version: Clickster 1.63.4.2
Pros
It can be uninstalled easily, thank God.
Cons
It's not working at all. It's useless and it cannot be used...
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"version not working!"
Version: Clickster 1.63.4.2
Pros
Usually a good program, new version is bad!
Cons
Something isn't right with this newest version of Clickster, it times out after a very short search time, was getting very few or no search hits. I wouldn't recommend this version, they need to do some serious tweaking on it or something.
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"Works for only one selection"
Version: Clickster 1.63.4.2
Pros
Wonderful size of library
Cons
The search and play function works very well for the first selection. Afterward, nothing can be found without re-starting the application.
Summary
All that 's needed is the ability to make sequential searches.
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