MP3 Rocket 5.0.3

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License:Free
Editor's Rating: Average
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Downloads: 1,840,180
Requirements: Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003 Server/Vista
Limitations: No limitations
Date Added:February 28, 2008

Publisher's description of MP3 Rocket
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MP3 Rocket is a file sharing program allowing users to download music, movies, software titles, games, documents, and images files from the gnutella network. New and unique functionality provides access to live on demand streams for over 3000 movies and TV shows, a Live Radio feature so you can listen to over 500 top live radio stations, and a Game Player with access to over 1000 fun games. Other features include the ability to browse the most popular downloads, publish a personal rating of your favorites, preview files while downloading, an intuitive user interface, and enhanced parental controls through the use of built-in keyword filters.

Version 5.0.3 includes a few minor bug fixes and performance enhancements.

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Editor's review of MP3 Rocket
More than just MP3sMP3 Rocket is another LimeWire source code fork, like FrostWire, and as such it functions exactly the same. When you search for a file using MP3 Rocket, you get results from LimeWire, and vice versa.

However, the user experience differs in a few ways. Although the name suggests the program only searches for MP3s, that's not the case. This has all the capabilities of the parent program and is capable of searching for and downloading all file formats. This includes the recent addition of torrent support to the main LimeWire code. The most MP3-centric feature here lets users share their iTunes music folder directly, as if they were on a shared network.

What makes MP3 Rocket stand out are the TV, Radio, and Games channels. There are more than 200 live broadcast radio signals coming in, as well as similar numbers for TV stations and Flash-based games, mostly arcade classics such as Pac-Man and Street Fighter. Radio stations are streamed live from FM signals around the country, and TV channels include the Sci-Fi Channel, Cartoon Network, videos from MTV and more. Who knew that MTV still carried videos?

Beware of the toolbar you must opt out of when installing the application, and MP3 Rocket struggles with the same performance flaws that plague other LimeWire-based clients. However, it offers reasonable performance and provides some extras along the way--not quite a rocket, but it definitely doesn't fizzle.