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Short: Napster client for Amiga with nice GUI
Author: laursen@myself.com (Jacob Laursen), madcat@linuxfan.com (Güren Özen)
Uploader: laursen@myself.com (Jacob Laursen)
Version: 0.8
Type: comm/tcp
Replaces: comm/tcp/Amster.lha
Requires: AmigaOS 3.x, MUI 3.8, MCC_NList 19.97, MCC_Textinput 27
Napster is an MP3 sharing community using a special client that features
things like chatting, searching, downloading, notify lists, etc. If you
want to read more about Napster in general, go to http://www.napster.com.
Here you can also download the official Windows version of the client.
Amster is an Open Source MUI based almost full-featured Napster client
for AmigaOS. It comes in three archives:
Amster-main.lha Main installation archive with executable,
documentation and scripts. This archive is required.
Amster-locale.lha Foreign language support. This archive is optional.
Amster-source.lha Full C source. This archive is optional.
Current features:
- Multithreaded downloads with priority and queue settings.
- File sharing (upload) with drag'n'drop support and more.
- Private messaging and multi-chatting (with channel list window).
- Advanced search with column list sorting.
- External MP3 player spawning; play the music while you download it!
- Navigator to connect to favourite servers (choose from list),
- Napigator support (server list fetching).
- Hotlist with online/offline notification and browse facility.
- Separate window for each task, and optional icon panel.
- ARexx port for scripting.
- Locale support - the world's first Napster client in 19 languages.
- Help bubbles and AmigaGuide® chapter lookup.
Changes since last Aminet release (0.7a):
- Startup time reduced significantly.
- Connect time is now shown in the main window title.
- Added a context menu for main listview (add/browse user) and
removed User string gadget and Browse button.
- Menu option to merge libraries.
- Napigator support (server list fetching) - see www.napigator.com.
- Fixed login registration procedure to work with OpenNap too.
- Added "bypass registration" option for faster logins.
- Invalid password/username login error requesters.
- Improved CONNECT, SEARCH and WHOIS ARexx commands.
- New ARexx commands: GETSERVERSTATS and WINDOW.
- Separated server/port in GUI, ARexx commands and config.
- Divided transfer error event into download/upload error events.
- Added "start download/upload", "incoming message", "download/
library doubleclick" and "download/upload aborted" events.
- Improved string gadgets (Textinput.mcc).
- Added cursor history to chat/messenger string gadgets.
- /MSG is now required in the messenger to be more consistent.
- Added more ARexx scripts and updated the player scripts.
- Added Bosnian and Polish translations.
- Install script updated - there's now three distribution archives,
and needed MUI custom classes will be installed.
- Bugfixes and minor modifications (see CHANGES for details).