I guess I'm not as easily satisfied as some people who as soon as they go to a new file sharing site automatically start proclaiming it as the best one of all time. I just started on Xolox and some of the same issues that bug the hell out of me on other sites are the same here. Why don't the site designers realize what a useful and necessary option it is to be able to save your searches? Huh? What? Yeah, saved searches! Do you think 3 months from now that i want to try to remember all the searches that I've done that didn't yield the file i wanted? It might be a hundred or more! Don't you think it would be nice to have a drop down list of all previous searches so we just have to click on it and we can search it now,next week,next year. It is so nice to have a list of all your searches to re-search until you find it instead of having to rack your brain to remember every one of them. Obviously in time some of those songs are going to slip your mind or not be as much of a priority next month as they are today. Why should we have to do mental gymnastics to remember our songs? Give us a drop down list that stores all your searches.

And geez theres nothing like coming to a site typing in a few songs and seeing nothing. Just makes me miss napster and Audiogalaxy that much more. You had to be looking for something by the most obscure band in the middle of Siberia to not get a listing on those two sites and even then they probably had it. Here i typed in a song by a well known artist off the latest cd and nothing. Wonderful. Don't mean to be cynical ( yeah maybe i kind of do) but that will practically guarantee me that this site is going to be good for the basics but as soon as you start throwing in a few unusual songs by unmainstream groups you will get very few if any results. Thats the quickest thing that will make me leave this site. Audiogalaxy and to some extent napster seemed to have every song ever recorded (along with bootlegs,rare cuts, never released songs and live songs from places you didn't even know existed). What a pleasure that was to peruse a list of songs that you never thought you would see in your lifetime let alone be able to download.

And one more thing. When i log on to xolox am I getting all the files that are out there or is there a way to access many more servers or networks or however xolox does it. Maybe then i could get more files.

You searches are saved if you have the "search history" check box selected in the preferences. Note this does not save your search results, just the text you were searching for.

Of course Napster and AG get more results, that is a trade off between being able to be sued and more efficent searching. Those file sharing systems use a central server to store the locations of the files. You get more results because every file that is on the network is available to be searched through. However, the lack of a centralized anything makes it very hard for anyone to sue anybody. Almost all file sharing servents now use the same network, Gnutella. So almost every program worth using is limited in this way. Stop compaining about how things are not as good as before, because it can't change anything.

As Xolox uses Gnutella, it is very hard to control what files you can see. you can only see what you neibour can see and so on. If you want to get Xolox to increase its horizon (how far into the network it can see) you will need to set you upload speed setting in the preferences higher. Xolox will then have more bandwidth to use for connecting to more hosts. Note that this is half the bandwidth. Half for upload and another for download. So set it to half what your connection can handle.

Thanks Antihedron for the search info. Thats good news since i was ready to assume this was like most other programs in that dept. The only other file sharing program that saves your searches that i've seen is Audiognome, a site that i used for a very long time until recently. I'm not sure if Audiognome used the Gnutella system, don't think so since they use the napigator server list and all its well known network of servers like Necessary Evil, DJNap etc ,etc. Whatever the case may be I know if I went to Audiognome and searched for the same song that yielded zero results on Xolox I would get plenty to choose from. So maybe it sounds like complaining but if your going to search for things outside the mainstream and you get nothing over and over again well i'm sorry but thats how I judge a site. Most of the mp3's that I got from napster,audiognome,audiogalaxy and others would be unheard now on many of these sites. So i guess the analogy would be that the central servers were like one big record store that had everything you could ever dream of and now its become more of a mainstream chain store. Pretty disappointing for the discrimnating music freak wouldn't you say?

I'm on dial up so i can't share much so would you mind explaining how i can increase the scope of my searches? You said to increase the upload speed(right now i have it at max). Does it matter what i'm sharing and if i raise it will it decrease my download speed even if I'm sharing nothing or very little? Thank you.

As far as I know Xolox does not limit your horison based on the amount of stuff you are sharing. However I reccoment sharing all the files you can regardless of your connection speed. As half of your bandwidth is reserved for uploads (no more than that), you mind as well help others by sharing. No one likes a freeloader.

Sharaza will also save you search results, however it is a more advanced program that I would only recommend for users who have an accurate understanding of the Guntella network and a sense of honor.