I also started on HotClient - then moved to Napster. When that went by the way of the dinosaur - I tried Mactella. Did fine for a while, but then tried LimeWire - loved it. There was so much more you could control. And it was faster then Mactella. However - since upgrading to Mac OS 10.1 (worse decision I've made) nothing works. Downloading the Mac OS X versions are just illusions that they might work...haven't even been able to install LimeWire (The instructions don't work) and Mactella doesn't ever connect - so, now I'm stuck with nothing - By the way, the new version of Mactella (if you can get it to work does allow you to control the bandwidth of upload vs downloads...