MP3 Rocket

Much has been said and written on this topic over the last decade. On the one side you have the conservative types declaring it to be a disease that is completely wrong in every way and should be stopped immediately. On the other hand you have people saying that it’s the future and will revolutionize entertainment forever.

This hullabaloo started many, many years ago on a big scale with cassettes. All of a sudden everyone could now make each other mixtapes or copies of their favorite albums effortlessly. The technology made it so simple a toddler could almost do it. This led to the first large-scale anti-piracy campaigns by the recording industry with print, TV and radio blasts declaring: “Home Taping Is Killing Music!” (a somewhat humorous statement now given the advent of modern platforms for your favorite artists like Youtube music etc). This guilt angle was employed ruthlessly and still is to this day. Ironically many have argued that it in fact made the process all the more exciting and maybe even contributed to it’s proliferation. At it’s peak the recording industry decided it was time to make an example out of illegal downloader’s so they tracked some files downloaded by some kids all over the world and sued them for exorbitant amounts of money. Unable to pay these vast sums they were forced to do jail time instead. Many of these kids are still imprisoned.

Some people are saying that file sharing is the best thing that ever happened to the entertainment industry because it shows what is really popular without any of the artificial force-feeding of certain pop artists onto the market. It’s a truly democratic environment where the best artists succeed and the less-amazing flounder. They mention that it’s up to the music industry to adapt to these changes and simply start monetizing other avenues such as merchandising, shows and product sponsorships. File sharing has been a major player in many artists’ careers from Radiohead, Darude, Girl Talk and in fact most modern hip hop.

One of the really big developments recently has been Youtube music. Youtube is now one of the biggest music-listening websites on the internet and has made many a career blossom on it’s own. It seems Youtube has a massive role to play in the future of music. So is downloading music wrong? It’s up to each one of us to decide for ourselves.

To accurately discuss the full history of this very important, modern, cultural phenomenon we have to travel back in time all the way before the 1970’s. This was when recordable media was first developed which laid the foundation for what later became such a world-changing development. Four types of media were invented back then including the cassette tape, magnetic storage tape, punched cards and punched tape.

Then in the 70’s we had the floppy disk. This was also the first time a binary signal could be sent from one point to another via an ‘Xmodem’. We also saw the first BBS (bulletin board system) and the birth of Usenet, the first forum which operated as a platform for discussion and of course, file sharing.

The 80’s saw two completely revolutionary technologies: IRC and FTP. FTP stands for file transfer protocol and is the standard by which files are transferred from one computer to another computer or server. IRC stands for Internet Relay Chat and was the first widely-used, text-based, online, chat platform. It is still wildly popular even today and just goes to show how robust and well-designed it was for it’s time.

The 1990’s were by far the most important decade for file sharing. This was when the world wide web was born, MP3 was finalized, Winamp was released, MP3.com was launched and the first MP3 player was created. More importantly however was the birth of a website that was so loved and so hated in equal measure, the file share network – Napster. File sharing cannot be spoken about without mentioning Shawn Fanning’s creation. This was the first P2P (peer to peer) site that successfully combined with MP3 technology to allow people to share music freely without hindrance – until the lawsuits appeared that is. A mere 2 years later the site was shut down.

In the 2000’s file sharing became a lot more mature. Peer to peer sites like Bittorrent, Gnutella, Kazaa and Limewire were released leading to an unprecedented rise in the popularity of file sharing. These platforms were robust, easy to use, fast and had the benefit of a legal loophole to work under. From here on various sites were launched such as Soulseek, The Pirate Bay and many others all working on a similar theme and this is the way it is still done to this day. That’s the short history of your modern file share network.

I started this blog so we could discuss MP3rocket and peer to peer networks in general. I think it’s an interesting topic and recently I’ve been thinking more and more about p2p networks in general.

Specifically I was thinking about the fact that p2p networks god a bad wrap as something that is really only used to facilitate questionable at best, and outright illegal at worst, activities.  I mean think about it, really the first time anyone really ever heard of peer to peer networking with with Napster.  We all know what happened to Napster.  I would even admit that i was using Napster back then to download and listen to MP3 file of songs and artists.  Some little part of me thought there was something not right about what I was doing.  Later I was eventually convicted enough that I gave it up and decided if i wanted music I would pay for it.

Of course that didn’t work too well either because I eventually went over to mp3.com which use to be such an awesome website.  I think Yahoo or someone like that eventually purchased mp3.com and totally ruined it.  I would find the most interesting and talented musicians and artists at mp3.com.  In hindsite, I think that was one of the best sites that has ever been on the internet, and I still haven’t forgiven Yahoo for screwing it up.

Anyway, I digress.  p2p networks offer so many advantages for moving data across mult-connected networks.  It’s too bad that people download porn and illegal mp3′s with them.  When I look through the logs in my server for this blog, it’s amazing how many people are searching for things like “free porn” or “how to download porn” or “mp3rocket and porn.”

Without going into a big discussion about porn and whether I think it’s good or bad, the problem is that society as a whole has put up the front that porn is bad.  Whether individually, people have a problem with porn is debatable since it’s like a multi billion dollar industry.  But definitely as a collective, as a society, porn is bad.

You know a lot of people say that the porn industry is one of the most significant driving forces for technology development and advancement.  There’s definitely a case to be made for that.  Some would say that the ability to process credit cards on-line was largely driven by the porn industry, charging to get your nudie pics online.

A lot of people would also say they were a driving force in the development of streaming media technologies and live video chat technology.  Could be.

In some of my other articles here on this blog I talk about the advantages of peer to peer networking and I would say that the porn industry and also the business of downloading pirated movies and tv shows once again pushed technology and spit out the concept of p2p networking.  It’s really a great technology for distributing large data files.  Breaking it up into smaller chunks, distributing the chunks to multiple computers, allowing simultaneous downloading of multiple chunks from multiple source peers.  Distributing the database of files and chunks so that the data always exists in multiple places.  It’s all really cool technology.

Hopefully we can find ways to use tools like mp3rocket, which is really a good p2p client to do stuff that’s not illegal.

If you searched for MP3 Rocket and ended up here, you may already know what it is. I have to be honest, at first I didn’t know what it was either. I was doing some keyword research for another project I’m working on. I was looking for keywords related to a learn piano program called “Rocket Piano”.
Anyway, there’s a keyword tool at Google, and you can punch in some terms, and it will come up with related terms and give ideas for related keywords. One of them was “MP3 Rocket” and the number of searches for this phrase were off the charts. In addition to the number of searches, there were a couple other things that were interesting. First the number of searches was high, but also the average EPC / CPC was nearly $15.00 and the competition for the phrase seemed pretty low. We’ll see if that remains to be the case or not.
So all that led me to register the domain and write this blog. I hope to share some really useful information about mp3 Rocket and educate you about what it is and how it works. Maybe mp3 Rocket is for you, maybe not.
In the most simple of terms, MP3 Rocket is simply a Peer to Peer network client. In another post, I explain what a p2p network is and why it’s interesting and controversial.
In more detail, MP3 Rocket is a p2p client that also supports streaming. Much like the days of Napster, MP3 Rocket allows p2p sharing of files via the gnutella and BitTorrent networks. I think the Wiki page for Mp3 Rocket calls BitTorrent and gnutella a “protocol.” I’m not sure if those are more like networks or protocols. I may be splitting hairs, but I’m pretty sure they’re networks, not protocols.
We can cut through all the hype and academic discussion, and just call MP3 Rocket a file sharing application, and my guess is most people are using it to share their mp3s and videos. Probably these networks are mostly filled up with free porn and free copyrighted music. I’m not making any judgements, just saying that’s probably mostly whats there.
There are two versions of MP3 Rocket, the free version, and a version called MP3 Rocket Pro. The MP3 Rocket project looks to have started around 2003 when LimeWire started putting some kind of “blocking code” in it’s network in response to pressure from the RIAA and some recent legal activity. Officially, MP3 Rocket was released in December of 2005, and written in Java, making it very portable.
The fine folks over at MP3 Rocket support this “three Ways to get stuff” concept where you can get your content from the gnutella network, you can get content from the BitTorrent network, or you can stream a live feed from multiple sources.
One interesting thing about MP3 Rocket is that it supports DAAP, or Digital Audio Access Protocol. Because of this MP3 Rocket will detect and share media from the local network via the DAAP-enabled devices such as itunes.
MP3 Rocket will allow you to browse the most popular downloads on the gnutella network publish reviews and ratings and more. It’s a fast easy way to locate and download tons of stuff from gnutella and BitTorrent.
Oh, and more more thing you should know. Starting with MP3 Rocket version 5.3.1 MP# Rocket will not share files with and extension of .doc, .pdf, .txt, or.rtf by default. That’s a relief!

A peer to peer network, often abbreviated as p2p networks, is a network configuration where the members, or computers, on the network can initiate and communicate directly with the other systems on that network. On characteristic of a p2p network is that users do not typically have to go to a centralized server to get the data they want. The information a user is looking for on a p2p network may exist in multiple places on multiple “nodes” on the p2p network.

There are lots of different uses for a p2p network, and mostly they’re good uses. At lot of people are looking for free mp3 downloads or trying to get pirated or copyrighted movies or music for free. Probably the most famous examples of this was the Napster network. Whether it was the first p2p network or not is debatable, but it was definitely the most popular and widley known about p2p network. Napster basically brought the concept of illegal sharing of mp3 music to the mainstream.

p2p networks have several characteristics which make it a great network configuration, but also make it attractive to people who are looking to use it for less than admirable reasons. One of those characteristics is that a p2p network is what you would call ‘distributed.’ A distributed network is one where your information, data, or hosts and nodes in the network are not centrally located. They’re not all in one place; they’re spread all over, or geographically disperse. So what? What makes disperse nodes in a network a good thing? There are several reasons. First, you can tell your node in the network to look for your information at the closest available node with the data you want. That way, you ensure the fastest possible transfer rate and lowest latency. It also means a p2p network is resilient to outages. One node goes down, get your download somewhere else.
Now to really complicate things you can break apart large files into smaller pieces or fragments. This is beneficial because then you can simultaneously download multiple parts of the same file! Now you’re really smoking with your download speeds. If you have a bunch of stuff to share or your getting free mp3 downloads from the internet, using a p2p network works really well.

There is one final characteristic about a p2p network that makes it good for illegal file sharing or downloading mp3s or movies and stuff. Anonymity. In most p2p networks, data is not stored centrally, this means there’s no ‘big brother’ looking over all the traffic between nodes in the network. In some p2p networks each client maintains a small database which lists the available files and the nodes where those files are available. So each client or node will just connect directly to the clients that have the files they want. Who’s going to monitor that and say you’re not allowed to do that? Or to check and see that the files you’re sharing aren’t protected by copyright or something? It’s very difficult to monitor and control p2p networks.

I have been doing some research on mp3 rocket and I’m a tad confused to be honest with you.

I started my research because I was looking for an affiliate program to promote and somewhere along the way doing research I came across the search phrase “mp3 rocket” in the Google Adwords keyword tool.

Actually, that’s not true, I do remember how I found it. I was looking through the clickbank marketplace, looking for a product to promote. I came across a product promising to teach people how to play the piano called “Rocket Piano“. I guess the keyword tool found the word “rocket” and it came up with mp3 rocket.

Now mind you, that before this, I had never heard of mp3 rocket, and had no idea what it was. but the numbers in the Google Keyword tool were kind of “off the charts.”

The program I had been looking at which suggested some criterial for identifying possibly profitable “niches” to market in for the purposes for selling AdSense space suggested that you try and find an exact match keyword (or phrase) where there are at least 12,000 local monthly searches, and where the average CPC is about $2.50 (and where you think you can compete with the first page organic results).

Well, the exact phrase [mp3 rocket] has over 22,000 monthly searches and has an estimated CPC of $16.22. That’s totally insane. If I’m reading that correctly, advertisers are paying over $16.00 for a single click of their ad. So what are they selling that’s so great?

I can’t quite figure this out. As far as I can tell, products like MP3 Rocket are basically peer to peer file sharing clients. I think Napster was basically the first P2P file sharing network, and it was essientially a method for people to share their music library with other people. I’ll save you the trouble of reading my opinion on this

Don’t services like last.fm make this sort of thing irrelevant? I think people who are searching for mp3 rocket are basically trying to find free music or probably porn. Isn’t porn behind most internet users motives anyway?

What do you think? Let me know.

mp3 rocket

MP3 Rocket is a file sharing application that allows you to download music, movies, software, games, documents, and images files via the Gnutella network. What makes it stand out from other programs is that it also offers you a unique functionality that allows you to access to live on demand streams for over 3000 movies and TV shows. In addition, it comes with a Live Radio feature where you can listen to over 500 top live radio stations. Also, its built-in game player allows you to access to over 1000 fun games. It comes with other great features that you would surely enjoy.
Version 5.3.1 provides protection for inadvertent file sharing of a user’s sensitive information, and now it will not by default share files with .doc, .pdf, .txt or .rtf extensions.
This software is free and runs with all versions of Windows