- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 3.x/95/98/Me/2000/XP/2003/Vista/Server 2008/7/NT/4 SP 3/XP Itanium 64-bit
- Date added: February 20, 2009
- Total Downloads: 5,286,594
- Downloads last week: 53,040
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A newer version of MP3 Rocket is available.
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 1718 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: Seth Rosenblatt on November 07, 2008
MP3 Rocket is another LimeWire source code fork, like FrostWire, and as such it functions exactly the same. When you search for a file using MP3 Rocket, you get results from LimeWire, and vice versa.
However, the user experience differs in a few ways. Although the name suggests the program only searches for MP3s, that's not the case. This has all the capabilities of the parent program and is capable of searching for and downloading all file formats. This includes the recent addition of torrent support to the main LimeWire code. The most MP3-centric feature here lets users share their iTunes music folder directly, as if they were on a shared network.
What makes MP3 Rocket stand out are the TV, Radio, and Games channels. There are more than 200 live broadcast radio signals coming in, as well as similar numbers for TV stations and Flash-based games, mostly arcade classics such as Pac-Man and Street Fighter. Radio stations are streamed live from FM signals around the country, and TV channels include the Sci-Fi Channel, Cartoon Network, videos from MTV and more. Who knew that MTV still carried videos?
Beware of the toolbar you must opt out of when installing the application, and MP3 Rocket struggles with the same performance flaws that plague other LimeWire-based clients. However, it offers reasonable performance and provides some extras along the way--not quite a rocket, but it definitely doesn't fizzle.
Publisher's description
From MP3 Rocket :MP3 Rocket is a file sharing program allowing users to download music, movies, software titles, games, documents, and images files from the gnutella network. New and unique functionality provides access to live on demand streams for over 3000 movies and TV shows, a Live Radio feature so you can listen to over 500 top live radio stations, and a Game Player with access to over 1000 fun games. Other features include the ability to browse the most popular downloads, publish a personal rating of your favorites, preview files while downloading, an intuitive user interface, and enhanced parental controls through the use of built-in keyword filters.
Version 5.2 provides improved Bittorrent integration. Torrents can now be downloaded and opened automatically with MP3Rocket.
What's new in this version:
Version 5.2 provides improved Bittorrent integration. Torrents can now be downloaded and opened automatically with MP3Rocket.
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User reviews of MP3 Rocket 5.2
- Average user rating: 4.1 stars out of 1718 votes
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Version: MP3 Rocket 5.2
Pros: Gives more information about a potential download.
Cons: Maybe needs very high speed connections.
Summary: Better than Limewire if it connects.
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Version: MP3 Rocket 5.2
Pros: The downloads are pretty fast. I really like the TV, games, and radio capabilities.The internet search for torrents is very healpful.
Cons: You can only download top torrents from the software itself. Anything beyond those have to come from the internet.
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Version: MP3 Rocket 5.2
Pros: Easy to use; well defined categories; quick search with excellent results; fast downloads and very user friendly.
Cons: found it difficult to download at first but that could just be my pc
Summary: As I said before it is easy to use and understand, download speeds are mainly very good and you can specify where to download files to which makes it easy to find them. Also like the preview button, if you dont like the song then you cancel the do... read more >>
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Version: MP3 Rocket 5.2
"finds music files very quickly with least junks ."
Pros: faster search for music of recent days
Cons: unable to find out music files of good old days
Summary: It is very good to find out music files but very sorry to say that I could not open at all the sections like most popular,web radio, watch TV or games though in earlier version I have enjoyed all these.Why it is like that? another one thing is that... read more >>
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Version: MP3 Rocket 5.2
"MP3 Rocket a great MP3 music downloader."
Pros: I've tried this software for almost a year now,you are able to choose what bit rate are you going to download which is great.Im using this since for me to store music on my Ipod.
Cons: The player in the previous version dont play,so you cant play to test if you have the right music to download.
Summary: i recommended this already to my friends,im using this software for almost a year for my ipod....only in my views,-its Faster than Limewire.:-)...no virus on its music supplies unlike other MP3 downloader.It would be more fun if its going to be skin... read more >>
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