MP3 Rocket 5.0.3

Publisher's description of MP3 Rocket

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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 5.0.3 includes a few minor bug fixes and performance enhancements.

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Editor's review of MP3 Rocket

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.

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  MP3 Rocket

  Best Free Music Download Software Out There

  by: MusicDude19 on 28-Feb-2008 10:44:12 AM

  Pros: Fast searching and downloading

  No problem finding the new and the oldies

  Nice interface and nice selection of skins

  Have downloaded music and videos of all types, no adware, spyware, or viruses at all!!

  If this is a spin-off of another p2p site...IT'S A GOOD ONE!

  Cons: A little confusing on where everyting was going on pc at first, but once figured out how to set... no problems.

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  MP3 Rocket

  Never had a problem out of it.

  by: hnygrl412 on 25-Mar-2008 06:34:57 PM

  Pros: Been using MP3 Rocket for over three years now, and I have nothing negative to say about it. I have used to to download everything from MP3 music files to television programs with no problems whatsoever.

  Have downloaded audiobooks, music, videos, tv programs, software, movies, everything it offers. Best money I've ever spent.

  Cons: Nothing negative to say about it.

  I downloaded Limewire for a parallel test, and hated it.

  It was so slow, and Mp3 rocket was "rocket fast."

  So no negatives.

  Forget Limewire, go for MP3 Rocket - and pay the money, get the PRO!

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  THE MP3 ROCKET IS A EXCELLANT WAY TO GET MUSIC,THANK YOU!!!!!

  by: Richard Blakley on 07-Mar-2008 11:56:12 AM

  Pros: THE PRODUCT IS TRULY THE FASTEST WAY TO GET MUSIC AND MORE.I DONT HAVE ANYTHING BAD TO SAY.THE MP3ROCKET IS BETTER THAN LIMEWIRE,FORSTWIRE IT IS A LOT FASTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  Cons: I AM THANKFUL FOR C-NET AND ALL MEMBERS AND STAFF,FOR HELPING PEOPLE LIKE MYSELF,I AM DISABLED, THANK YOU, RICHARD L BLAKLEY.A FIVE STAR RATING.

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  MP3 Rocket

  fast

  by: seyamber134 on 23-Mar-2008 03:02:13 PM

  Pros: fast and has every thing i need

  Cons: nothing really

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  MP3 Rocket

  very good software

  by: squirt000 on 16-Apr-2008 03:24:19 AM

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