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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: December 09, 2002
- Total Downloads: 3,841,310
- Downloads last week: 2,891
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 558 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
Although the bigger names in the P2P world still maintain the lion's share of users, several smaller entities have popped up. These programs appeal to those fed up with the fluff and third-party software often found in the more popular applications.
Shareaza is focused and lean, with a gorgeous interface and connections to the Gnutella2, Gnutella, eDonkey, and BitTorrent networks. It's also handsome and easy to use; we had no trouble quickly figuring out how to search, check our network status, and customize the interface through a healthy choice of skins. Search results were extremely fast, although we wish each new search automatically spawned a new tab. Shareaza also has a decent built-in media player for common audio and video formats. Other features include a chat client and the ability to schedule transfers.
The file-management system, with a slew of folders divided and subdivided into all sorts of categories, may overwhelm novices, though seasoned file-sharers probably won't have that much trouble. Overall, though, Shareaza's design, performance, and trim size provide make it a nice choice for peer-to-peer users.
Publisher's description
From Shareaza :Shareaza has a lean and mean 2002 XP design that enables peer-to-peer file sharing on the Gnutella network. Find ASF, BMP, EXE, DLL, GIF, JPEG, MP3, MPG, PNG, WMA, WMV, and all other file types. Shareaza is not just a network tool -- it's also a well equipped file library management solution. Shareaza maintains a comprehensive tree catalog of your shared files, automatically indexing and hashing them, and acquiring searchable metadata. It also tracks changes dynamically, so you don't have to rescan.
Shareaza's download core was purpose-built to provide optimum performance from any number of sources. Shareaza can manage your download queue automatically, or you can take charge and modify the status of files or even individual physical transfers and sources.
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