Automatic Search In Kazaa - Updated

[KazaaSearch]

New features of KazaaSearch: [GET it now at http://kazaasearch.netfirms.com/]

- full power of detailed search is now available;

- listboxes with possible choices (data scanned from your kazaa application);

- minor improvements in both Settings and SearchList dialog controls;

- registry optimizations performed automatically upon each start;

- bugs fixed (and new bugs included instead :))

Please, report bugs! Dear Kazaa fans, I am running WinXP and KAzaaLite 1.7 or 2.0 English, so if something is wrong with the prog on your computer, please let me know. I will greatly appreciate any bug reports. Help yourself and the community! Let's make this prog better together!


http://kazaasearch.netfirms.com/

[Nick_R]

:lol: This is great! :lol:

I am using it every day, in fact, I do not use it only to find rare files, but to input a whole list of files and avoid having to find them one by one by myself (for instance, finding all the songs of albums that I am looking for).

By the way, I have two suggestions:
- It would be great if there were an option to jump to a different super node every X hours, or to restart the kazaa program. In this way, it would be higher the possibility of finding what we are looking for.

- Additionally would be nice if the program remembered initial values. For instance, I always change the initial screen.

And in my computer, it seems there are the following bug:
- If you change the skin in the kazaa program, KazaaSearch crashes when starting.

Finally, thank you for this wonderful program!

[KazaaSearch]

Originally posted by Nick_R@Nov 8 2002, 01:15 PM
:lol:  This is great!  :lol:

I am using it every day, in fact, I do not use it only to find rare files, but to input a whole list of files and avoid having to find them one by one by myself (for instance, finding all the songs of albums that I am looking for).

By the way, I have two suggestions:
- It would be great if there were an option to jump to a different super node every X hours, or to restart the kazaa program. In this way, it would be higher the possibility of finding what we are looking for.

- Additionally would be nice if the program remembered initial values. For instance, I always change the initial screen.

And in my computer, it seems there are the following bug:
- If you change the skin in the kazaa program, KazaaSearch crashes when starting.

Finally, thank you for this wonderful program!
About changing a supernode - I dont' really know how to do that. Restarting KAzaa may result in loss of files which were being downloaded at that moment, i mean, no, you won't corrupt the data already downloaded, but you lose the user and your dl actually dies...

What initial values you want it to remember? Settings in the first screen, like dl default type etc.? Yes, I am planning to do that soon. Settings will be stored in .ini file, along with some data from your Kazaa application (like the content of listboxes, titles of buttons etc.)

Changing skin - I never tried any skin. I guess it changes some button layouts/properties/titles. BTW where did you get skins? They are not included into Kazaa Lite 2.0. I have skins folder but it's empty...

[the flinger]

simple- a search for kazaa skins

kazaassearch- i will report to you on what i think, but right now im eating pizza.

anywya, a suggestion-

search for {title} download only {album} {author} {etc}

i dont know if thats already in there.

report coming :)

[Nick_R]

Originally posted by KazaaSearch@Nov 8 2002, 07:20 PM

About changing a supernode - I don't' really know how to do that. Restarting KAzaa may result in loss of files which were being downloaded at that moment, i mean, no, you won't corrupt the data already downloaded, but you lose the user and your dl actually dies...

mmm... <_< Well, I do not either how to jump to another supernode programing, although I have found something interesting using the program eStop: If you stop the connection with your actual supernode, kazaa will automatically search and connect to another one without breaking any of the connection you have with users uploading or downloading.
Now, how to detect this and cancel it is something that I do not know. You can play a little with the eStop free version program and test this.


What initial values you want it to remember? Settings in the first screen, like dl default type etc.? Yes, I am planning to do that soon. Settings will be stored in .ini file, along with some data from your Kazaa application (like the content of listboxes, titles of buttons etc.)


Practically you are considering everything what I was thinking about. In fact, I was referring to the first screen only. :)

Finally, These are the best skins I have found so far, the good think of them is that are created specifically for the Kazaa Lite version. This means that they do not show the adds part. Great! B)
It would be great If you could make your program works with skins, they add a new whole look to the Kazaa program.

File:KazAa Skins (No Adds).exe
Length:1943763 Bytes,1898KB
UUHash:=isxDYbq96dQLob+lZpfXSrhyxvw=

[shenlong_wc]

was wondering ... can you make it search for file but not download any of them ?
i set it to "download 0 different files after each search" but it changes to 100 everytime ...

i mean , i realised that eash time i do a results search , more download sources are added to my current d/l list
and the "search for more sources" thingy screws up sometimes as in they dun reaaly find more sources

that's why i was hoping it would be able to help search but not download any files

[the flinger]

k search

its looking good.....but jumping snodes would be good also... :)

if you are gonna jump snodes, check what flinger wants


jumping (duh) works
history of snodes
a rating system for the snodes, i.e. if one of them you could tell was shit, you could give it a 1 star or maybe even block it??? that would be nice
any other things anyonE?

[Nick_R]

Originally posted by shenlong_wc@Nov 9 2002, 01:54 AM
was wondering ... can you make it search for file but not download any of them ?
i set it to "download 0 different files after each search" but it changes to 100 everytime ...

i mean , i realised that eash time i do a results search , more download sources are added to my current d/l list
and the "search for more sources" thingy screws up sometimes as in they dun reaaly find more sources

that's why i was hoping it would be able to help search but not download any files
You are right, after searching again for a file that it is downloading, all the founded users are added to your sources.

There is something that perhaps could work, instead of putting 0 in the download field, just un-tick that option.

[shenlong_wc]

by unticking that option , do i disable downloading ? or do i disable download limiting ?

[Nick_R]

:blink: Good question, let us find out.

[KazaaSearch]

Originally posted by shenlong_wc@Nov 10 2002, 02:53 AM
by unticking that option , do i disable downloading ? or do i disable download limiting ?
In the current version, unchecking any search limits means NO LIMIT. I decided to limit the number of downloaded files per search to be not less than 1, because I dont' really see any reason to search idle - you just spend your time, why do you want that? I do that sometimes to test the prog, but if you just search and don't download, you can't even see your results - as soon as search finished the prog immediately starts new search...

OK, now you will be able to set # of downloads per search to 0.

[KazaaSearch]

Originally posted by shenlong_wc@Nov 10 2002, 02:53 AM
by unticking that option , do i disable downloading ? or do i disable download limiting ?
This limitation is now removed. To disable downloads, enable the option "After each search download only" and input 0 into the box.
If you want this option to be applied to all new items in the list, select corresponding option in the settings window. And you might have to change this manually for all old items, since default settings are applied to newly created items only. individual settings for each item override them.

[KazaaSearch]

Ehh, found another bug in the initialization procedure, which did not allow KS to start at some computers.
Get the latest build (10 Nov) if your KS ever died upon start...
Sorry for trouble.

http://kazaasearch.netfirms.com/

[slicknick]

This is from an older post on "node hopping":

Thanks paul , and your right it works great for rare content , with that tip added , the revised instruction set is as follows :

how to hop supernodes using your firewall - in the following example im using zone alarm pro 3


the first this to do is disable filesharing and pause all downloads.
its also a very good idea to reboot and reconnect so you get a new ip address .
ok so you now should be connected to the net ,
and have your fasttrack program running with sharing disabled and all downloads paused
next goto the run command (start>run)and type netstat -n 50 , this will give you a snapshot of who is connected to your pc for the next 50 seconds , look through the list that comes up for the number 1214 at the end of the ip address and copy it to a text file
right click zone alarm pro (in the task bar by the clock) and open the contol center .
click 'firewall' from the menu on the left ,
you will see 2 'tabs' one marked 'main' and one marked 'Zones'
the zones tab is the one we need .
once at the 'zones' tab , you will see 4 buttons in the bottom right corner ,
click 'add' and select ip address from the popup menu .
type the ip address you got from netstat into the box provided & place it in the 'blocked' zone , click ok then click apply .
return to your fasttrack client and do a search , doesnt matter what for , its just to clear you from the supernode you are currently connected to .
once you reconnect to the network (on a different node , as the one you just left is now blocked by your firewall ) restart your downloads (you might want to do this AFTER checking netstat again to get the ip of the latest node) and most important - reenable sharing
you should now find yourself on a new node with totaly different users , but best of all ,
you will still pick up the users you found on the last node and continue to download from them
broadband users might want to hop a few nodes doing a search on each node , as the user details/ip address of everyone you manage to connect to is stored within the dat file , so the more nodes you hop , the more sources you get , and the faster the downloads

[KazaaSearch]

Originally posted by slicknick@Nov 11 2002, 03:06 AM
This is from an older post on "node hopping":

Thanks paul , and your right it works great for rare content , with that tip added , the revised instruction set is as follows :

how to hop supernodes using your firewall - in the following example im using zone alarm pro 3


the first this to do is disable filesharing and pause all downloads.
its also a very good idea to reboot and reconnect so you get a new ip address .
ok so you now should be connected to the net ,
and have your fasttrack program running with sharing disabled and all downloads paused
next goto the run command (start>run)and type netstat -n 50 , this will give you a snapshot of who is connected to your pc for the next 50 seconds , look through the list that comes up for the number 1214 at the end of the ip address and copy it to a text file
right click zone alarm pro (in the task bar by the clock) and open the contol center .
click 'firewall' from the menu on the left ,
you will see 2 'tabs' one marked 'main' and one marked 'Zones'
the zones tab is the one we need .
once at the 'zones' tab , you will see 4 buttons in the bottom right corner ,
click 'add' and select ip address from the popup menu .
type the ip address you got from netstat into the box provided & place it in the 'blocked' zone , click ok then click apply .
return to your fasttrack client and do a search , doesnt matter what for , its just to clear you from the supernode you are currently connected to .
once you reconnect to the network (on a different node , as the one you just left is now blocked by your firewall ) restart your downloads (you might want to do this AFTER checking netstat again to get the ip of the latest node) and most important - reenable sharing
you should now find yourself on a new node with totaly different users , but best of all ,
you will still pick up the users you found on the last node and continue to download from them
broadband users might want to hop a few nodes doing a search on each node , as the user details/ip address of everyone you manage to connect to is stored within the dat file , so the more nodes you hop , the more sources you get , and the faster the downloads
Nice explanation, thanks. I use a personal firewall AtGuard, and I can easily see all open connections and kill any of them by dbl-click.
Or I can alternatively block the current SN, to make KAzaa find new.
But is there any prescription to make it connect to a SN IP i know?
Actually I search for some European and Russian media files, being in the US. Therefore, I would be very happy being connected to some of the SN's in Europe. I can get their IP's by starting a download from some definitely European guy, and then see his SN IP using DatView or my own prog DatReader. But I don't know how to make Kazaa connect to his SN...

[shenlong_wc]

wow ... thanks ... now the proggie work ... maybe you can rename it to auto search and accelerator ... hee hee ...

so now , the ultimate kazaa is ... tada :

kazaa lite + { main proggie ~! }
kazaasearch + { more sources }
FastTrack Accelerator + { yet more sources }
kazaalite cheater + { participation yadda yadda }
supernode hopping + { tap into more networks }
maybe diet kazza ? { registry hacks are useful ... but i dun use the other functions }

[Guest]

Automated Super Node Hopping
--o--

First I would like to make it clear I have no intention of implementing this code, due to a lot of workload and a lack of the particular knowledge needed to perfect this. But were I to code it, this would be the schematic:

1 - block all traffic to port 1214 (redirect to internal)
2 - log all outgoing (blocked) requests to port 1214
3 - perform ping and whois/geomapping to select the IP:1214 that seems most preferable
4 - permit access only to that IP:1214
5 - wait until kazaalite retries that SN
6 - connection successful
7 - wait for downloads to be successfully established *fast track acc./kz search*
8 - return to number 1

if you have any further queries find me admin@medicalengineer.co.uk

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[shenlong_wc]

how about :

1. disable downloads
2. run through download list and pause everything
3. log then block ip connections to port 1214 ( netstat -n )
4. search for files ( using Automatic Search In Kazaa's code ? )
5. run through download list and resume everything, search for more sources (Fast track accelerator code ?)
6. wait a certain time for downloads and searches to proceed ( if not it would keep hopping but not download )
7. now go back to 1

i have no idea how to program to interface with other applications ...

[KazaaSearch]

OK, here is my scheme for SN jumping. I believe it can be implemented.

1. Determine the desired SN IP. This can be done by doing search for some language- or culture-specific files (if you are interested in getting a SN in a certain geographical region) and reading SN IP from KAzaa memory. I know how to read text data of search results from Kazaa memory, and I believe it is possible to read user's IP and SN IP. It is known that they are present in its memory, otherwise it wouldn't be able to create a dat file containing these two IP's.

2. Figure out the location of current SN IP in Kazaa memory or database files (I don't know yet where it is stored), disconnect (or close in case if you need to overwrite a file) Kazaa AND OVERWRITE THIS IP with your desired SN IP. Enjoy.

[KazaaSearch]

I am back from sunny warm Florida to nasty cold Chicago, and hence what? A new release of KSearch is coming :)
BTW, the number of visitors of kazaasearch page has past Thousand when I was away ;)

[Nick_R]

Welcome back.

[the maestro]

hi,
your program is great.
but let us help you to make more good things ...
like search in cddb .
I will wright the name of the albom , the program will take the songs from cddb - http://freedb.freedb.org/
and start to download , no more making a long list ......

for that i need the code of the programs and some help if you have doc it's better.

make the code free (in your site ) and god blass you .


:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:


thanks ,
waiting for your replay ...

[shenlong_wc]

humm ... open source ? sounds good to me :ph34r:
i'd like to help however i can too ~!

[KazaaSearch]

Originally posted by the maestro@Nov 21 2002, 09:25 AM
hi,
your program is great.
but let us help you to make more good things ...
like search in cddb .
I will wright the name of the albom , the program will take the songs from cddb - http://freedb.freedb.org/
and start to download , no more making a long list ......

for that i need the code of the programs and some help if you have doc it's better.

make the code free (in your site ) &nbsp;and god blass you .


:rolleyes: &nbsp;:rolleyes: &nbsp;:rolleyes: &nbsp;:rolleyes: &nbsp;


thanks ,
waiting for your replay ...
Are you going to use HTTP interface of cddb.com?
How can you be sure that they won't change the layout of their webpages, so that your program will fail to extract titles?
I programmed a CDDB robot which retrieved all tracklistings for a particular search keyword, but this script needed modification every time they change the design...

[KazaaSearch]

Finally!
Released version of KSearch with new features:

1) settings are now saved into file KazaaSearch.ini, as well as lists of titles from your Kazaa combo boxes (they are now read only once, when you first start KSearch)

2) an attempt has been made to make KSearch compatible with any language version (which differs from english version only in the names of buttons).
I would greatly appreciate any testing on foreign Kazaa applications. I can't be sure it works fine on any machine. So, please try it, test it!

[KazaaaSearch]

Originally posted by the flinger@Nov 9 2002, 03:51 PM
k search

its looking good.....but jumping snodes would be good also... :)

if you are gonna jump snodes, check what flinger wants


jumping (duh) works
history of snodes
a rating system for the snodes, i.e. if one of them you could tell was shit, you could give it a 1 star or maybe even block it??? that would be nice
any other things anyonE?

Hi, this is KazaaSearch, I write from another comp, therefore unauthorized by my usual name.

I will do SN hopping and save their IP:port, but what I actually observe is that Kazaa changes your SN automatically every 20 minutes or so. Currently I don't know how to connect to a given SN, but what i know is that if you simply disconnect (using main menu) and connect again, you got new SN! And even if you occasionally connect to the same SN, I found the way to make Kazaa forget your current SN IP! You simply change ConnectionInfoKazaaNet key. I tried to overwrite the current SN IP to a desired SNIP, with no desirable result. But this really makes Kazaa to forget its previous supernode!

Rating SN's is useless I guess, because there are so many SN's, my estimate is 100 thousand of supernodes, based on a paper on Kazaa security (someone's bachelor project), in which they estimate number of users per SN as about 50. So, probability to connect to same SN is negligible. Collecting their IP's is just a funny statistics, esp. if you convert IPs into hostnames and query whois for each IP :)

BTW, I will post my html script which saves SN IP into a file evey, say, 30 seconds, along with the request date. I will also post my results in the morning :)) I encourage everyone interested to run that tiny script and report the frequency of spontaneous SN change.

[SiliconeShadow]

Content-Length: 1232
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 13:17:43 GMT
Server: KazaaClient Sep 16 2002 23:59:43
Connection: close
Last-Modified: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 13:17:43 GMT
X-Kazaa-Username: CoolGuy
X-Kazaa-Network: KaZaA
X-Kazaa-IP: 192.168.0.228:1214
X-Kazaa-SupernodeIP: 68.97.105.215:3931
Content-Type: text/html
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
I wrote a quick little app to show me when it changes,
if I can figure out how ZoneAlarm works I can block access
to all IPs and only allow access to a supernode you specify,
---------------------------------------------------------------------
But I think we are going about this all wrong!!! Even if we can
go back to a supernode of our choice its pointless becuase
the main reason we would want to go back is to finish grabbing
files from some user but the chances that that user is gonna
stay on that SuperNode is pretty slim, SuperNode hopping is only
needed to increase search results, so this calls for a SERIOUS KAZAA
hack to force it to connect it to any number of supernodes as opposed
to JUST ONE! then your results shoot through the roof!!
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
What can be accomplished now however when you dont get any results
in a search you can DISCONNECT and RECONNECT and maybe that
will reconnect you to a different supernode, but its not always certain
thats why I was saying we can block access to an IP (your current SuperNode)
like with ZoneAlarm and that will in turn force it to connect to another supernode
and then you can search again , do this programmatically and you have a
NEAt TOY.

shadow

[KazaaSearch]

My kazaasearch site is blocked by damn hosting provider!!! I have no idea for what reason, and I got no emails from them. Instead of any pages it always shows

This site is currently unavailable.

Jesus, what wrong did I do?

[the maestro]

hi ,

first thanks for what you are doing !!!

can you make some more features like :

1. if the program didn't find the files - i will have a new text file created with that songs .

2. my searchlist have a lot of songs like 500 , 1000 and more .

after i download 500 files to the directory i would like to synchronize it with searchlist.txt

for example :

see this searchlist :

# The Greatest Soul Hits of All Time [BOX SET] Disc: 1

What’s I Say Parts I & II - Ray Charles
Money (That’s What I Want) - Barret Strong
Please Mr. Postman - The Marvelettes
I Count The Tears - The Drifters Featuring Ben. E. Kinf
Last Night - Mar-Keys
Twist And Shout - The Isley Brothers
Stand By Me - Ben E. King

# The Greatest Soul Hits of All Time [BOX SET] Disc: 2

Where Did Our Love Go - The Supremes
Shotgun - Jr. Walker & The All Stars
The In Crowd - Dobie Gray
Hurt So Bad - Little Anthony & The Imperials
Got To Get You Off My Mind - Solomon Burke
Yes, I’m Ready - Barbara Mason
Sitting In The Park - Billy Stewart


# The Greatest Soul Hits of All Time [BOX SET] Disc: 3

Sweet Soul Music - Arthur Conley
Respect - Aretha Franklin
Tramp - Otis & Carla
Show Me - Joe Tex
Soul Finger - Bar-Kays
Gimme Little Sign - Brenton Wood
I’m Your Puppett - James & Bobby Purify
Soul Man - Sam & Dave


in the directory i have this :

c:kazaa dowenload

What’s I Say Parts I & II - Ray Charles .mp3
Money (That’s What I Want) - Barret Strong .mp3
Please Mr. Postman - The Marvelettes.mp3
I Count The Tears - The Drifters Featuring Ben. E. Kinf.mp3
Last Night - Mar-Keys.mp3
Twist And Shout - The Isley Brothers.mp3
Stand By Me - Ben E. King.mp3
Where Did Our Love Go - The Supremes.mp3
Shotgun - Jr. Walker & The All Stars.mp3
The In Crowd - Dobie Gray.mp3
Hurt So Bad - Little Anthony & The Imperials.mp3
Got To Get You Off My Mind - Solomon Burke.mp3
Yes, I’m Ready - Barbara Mason.mp3
Sitting In The Park - Billy Stewart.mp3
Sweet Soul Music - Arthur Conley.mp3
Respect - Aretha Franklin.mp3
Tramp - Otis & Carla.mp3
Show Me - Joe Tex.mp3
Soul Finger - Bar-Kays.mp3
Gimme Little Sign - Brenton Wood.mp3
I’m Your Puppett - James & Bobby Purify.mp3
Soul Man - Sam & Dave.mp3


now i wont something that wiil help for all ,

in just one click on a button the program wiil synchronize the mp3 files with the searchlist

and make the directory and move the files to them .

the end will be like this :

c:kazaa dowenload

c:kazaa dowenloadThe Greatest Soul Hits of All Time [BOX SET] Disc: 1

What’s I Say Parts I & II - Ray Charles .mp3
Money (That’s What I Want) - Barret Strong .mp3
Please Mr. Postman - The Marvelettes.mp3
I Count The Tears - The Drifters Featuring Ben. E. Kinf.mp3
Last Night - Mar-Keys.mp3
Twist And Shout - The Isley Brothers.mp3
Stand By Me - Ben E. King.mp3




c:kazaa dowenloadThe Greatest Soul Hits of All Time [BOX SET] Disc: 2

Where Did Our Love Go - The Supremes.mp3
Shotgun - Jr. Walker & The All Stars.mp3
The In Crowd - Dobie Gray.mp3
Hurt So Bad - Little Anthony & The Imperials.mp3
Got To Get You Off My Mind - Solomon Burke.mp3
Yes, I’m Ready - Barbara Mason.mp3
Sitting In The Park - Billy Stewart.mp3


c:kazaa dowenloadThe Greatest Soul Hits of All Time [BOX SET] Disc: 3

Sweet Soul Music - Arthur Conley.mp3
Respect - Aretha Franklin.mp3
Tramp - Otis & Carla.mp3
Show Me - Joe Tex.mp3
Soul Finger - Bar-Kays.mp3
Gimme Little Sign - Brenton Wood.mp3
I’m Your Puppett - James & Bobby Purify.mp3
Soul Man - Sam & Dave.mp3



waiting for your replay ,

and thanks for all .

:) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)

[shenlong_wc]

Originally posted by KazaaSearch@Nov 28 2002, 10:46 AM
My kazaasearch site is blocked by damn hosting provider!!! I have no idea for what reason, and I got no emails from them. Instead of any pages it always shows

This site is currently unavailable.

Jesus, what wrong did I do?
probably coz you did too damn good a job in programming this appz =)
site must have been guzzling their bandwidth, so they shut you down.

anyway keep up the great work ~!

[KazaaSearch]

Originally posted by the maestro@Nov 28 2002, 10:10 AM
hi ,

first thanks for what you are doing !!!

can you make some more features like :


Let me think about it. After first reading I could not understand what exactly you want.
But I want to announce new release of KS with SUPERNODE HOPPING!!!
And supernode history list! (appended into file SupernodeHistory.txt)

GET it now at http://kazaasearch.narod.ru/KazaaSearch.exe.zip

The site is real slow but the other site (kazaasearch.netfirms.com) is closed by nasty administrators...

[KazaaSearch]

Originally posted by the maestro@Nov 28 2002, 10:10 AM
hi ,

first thanks for what you are doing !!!

can you make some more features like :

1. if the program didn't find the files &nbsp;- i will have a new text file created with that songs .

2. my searchlist have a lot of songs like 500 , 1000 and more .

&nbsp; after i download 500 files to the directory &nbsp;i would like to synchronize it with searchlist.txt


Let me explain the role of searchlist.txt
Currently it is only used when there is NO binary file KazaaSearch.list in the starting directory.
So, if you want to change the list of your files without manually typing them into Search List editor (BORING), just delete that binary .list file, substitute searchlist.txt with a new bunch of titles you wanna find, and run KS again. If you cnahge searchlist.txt but not remove .list file, it is not reloaded upon start.

I have to admit that deleting found items from searchlist.txt is a good idea. But presently the important thing is not working - KS is not controlling the STATE of downloads. i mean, if you started 100 files for one search term, this doesn't even mean that you have completed or at least downloaded 1 Kb of any of those. this means that you NEED to continue searching...

There are couple criteria for termination of search which are presently implemented. All of them are based on the number of started downloads for that particular item. As soon as you exceed the specified number, your search item becomes "Finished". This doesn't really mean, I repeat, that you actually got any data... You just found a lot sources...

So presently I can do the following: after completion of each search cycle or upon exit KS refreshes searchlist.txt, removing all items in the state Finished. But remember that if you use default settings (no limits for each search item), then none of them will ever turn into Finished state.
Probably this idea has to wait until the download control implementation. You may know that "Completed downloads" column always contains zeros - this isn't done yet...

I am planning a smart control in which you'll see ALL found files along with usernames, IP's, SNIP's, hashes (ESPECIALLY USEFUL!), as well as files being downloaded and their current state. So the program will know if you actually completed any of the files found.

[SpritelyOtay]

First off thanks for all the work your putting in,the download accelerater works great but i can't figure out how to get the search engine to work properly,first it requires two entry's which is a bit of a problem because when it finishes the search it starts to download everything it found then clears the field to start the new search then starts to download all the files it found from the new search.Could you set it up that we can enter any number of searches including one only,and more importantly can you also allow us to decide which files to start.I would like to go through the results of a search one at a time and decide which to choose but i can't at present because the field is cleared.

Cheers

[KazaaSearch]

Originally posted by SpritelyOtay@Nov 30 2002, 11:55 PM
First off thanks for all the work your putting in,the download accelerater works great but i can't figure out how to get the search engine to work properly,first it requires two entry's which is a bit of a problem because when it finishes the search it starts to download everything it found then clears the field to start the new search then starts to download all the files it found from the new search.Could you set it up that we can enter any number of searches including one only,and more importantly can you also allow us to decide which files to start.I would like to go through the results of a search one at a time and decide which to choose but i can't at present because the field is cleared.

Cheers
You can fool the KS limitation that you ought to have minimum two items, but it is really not recommended. Create two items and Pause one of them. This is like having one item. Most probably, you will not find any more files after first search, because KAzaa caches locally the last search results and it will return them to you without requesting the supernode. This means, that having only one search task is useless.

If you want to see and select results to be downloaded manually, then the whole idea of using KS application is ridiculous. You do not save any time if you wish to look into results and click them manually.

However, in the (far) future I plan to allow you to download the search results using saved data like file hash (the only required thing) and user IP (useful if that user is still sharing that file).

Right now it is only possible to code the immediate pausing of the download, which was started automatically.
And later you can decide what files you actually want to get, pressing Resume in the traffic view.

I hope I made it clear which alternatives are possible.

[shenlong_wc]

Originally posted by KazaaSearch@Dec 2 2002, 12:49 PM
You can fool the KS limitation that you ought to have minimum two items, but it is really not recommended. Create two items and Pause one of them. This is like having one item. Most probably, you will not find any more files after first search, because KAzaa caches locally the last search results and it will return them to you without requesting the supernode. This means, that having only one search task is useless..
actually a simpler way is to just omit some words ?
like if you're searching for " age of mythology" , the first entry could be " age of mythology" and the second one "mythology" this will churn up more cearches

[KazaaSearch]

Originally posted by shenlong_wc@Dec 2 2002, 11:41 AM
actually a simpler way is to just omit some words ?
like if you're searching for " age of mythology" , the first entry could be " age of mythology" and the second one "mythology" this will churn up more cearches
Good tip!

[Speedeefeet]

what the hell does this kazaasearch thing do? :blink:

[KazaaSearch]

Originally posted by Speedeefeet@Dec 2 2002, 11:38 PM
what the hell does this kazaasearch thing do? :blink:
Read the webpage http://kazaasearch.netfirms.com or http://kazaasearch.narod.ru

[shenlong_wc]

or quite simply , kazaasearch searches kazaa ( try saying that 10 times in a row quickly )

[Speedeefeet]

ok, so it searches for more and more?

[KazaaSearch]

Originally posted by Speedeefeet@Dec 3 2002, 03:12 AM
ok, so it searches for more and more?
It searches for and downloads as many files as you want, using the whole list of files you wanna find.

E.g., you search for a compilation or just arbitrary bunch of files. Then KS is an indispensable and irreplaceable thing.