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Mulve is a fast, free, non-P2P way to download music
The thing is, despite being free and tiny, the selection of music is insane. Lee found a bunch of crazy bands like The Wonderstuff, Mind Bomb, and Johnny Socko -- and for me, it even turned up plenty of hits for classical music by Mahler, Beethoven, and Mozart. All of the generic pop crap is there, too.
And it's fast! TorrentFreak reports that the servers might be located in Russia, but that didn't prevent Lee and I from maxing out our connections -- 600KB/s for him, and 2MB/s for me. There's no peer-to-peer in sight, either; these are just direct, fast downloads. If you need some more convincing, check the short video after the break.
For a service supported by just a single banner ad, it's surely too good to be true (and almost certainly unlicensed). It'll get shut down -- it's just a matter of whether it'll be thanks to Interpol, or due to too much traffic.
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Subscribe to commentsIgor MokinSep 23rd 2010 10:05AM
The suggestion of TorrentFreak is right. From the way the song titles are spelt sometimes (adorned by a strange Russian custom with hearts, stars or almost random comments), the app certainly pulls the files from Vkontakte, the Russian clone of Facebook. With 70+ millions of users, it's got tons of (unlicenced) music. No one cares much about it in our country, so the file source itself will probably not face any legal problems in the foreseeable future. On the other hand, traffic problems occur often.
By the way, there are at least two other apps that do the same thing, but they're available only in Russian language.
Sebastian AnthonySep 23rd 2010 10:07AM
So people just uploaded MP3s to their social profile page? Surprised that the owners of that Russian social network allow that to carry on... (and surely they will blacklist the IP address of Mulve? :)
Igor MokinSep 23rd 2010 10:23AM
Yes, people are allowed to upload any audio and video to their profiles and stream everything on demand. There is a disclaimer about copyright in the network's ToS, but honestly, this was probably meant to be like that.
By the way, most people here don't download such files anymore, they just stream them. It's almost like Spotify except no one pays anything for it. But just in case one needs the file, many users have an app like this.
SusheeSep 23rd 2010 10:15AM
I continue to get an error after opening the .exe
"An unhandled win32 exception occurred in mulve.exe [3932]. Just-In-Time debugging this exception failed with the following error: No installed debugger has Just-In-Time debugging enabled. In Visual Studio, Just-In-Time debugging cn be enabled from Tools/Options/Debugging/Just-In-Time."
lsydexickSep 23rd 2010 12:42PM
Looks interesting... as an alternative I've heard that a program called does the same kinda thing... "scilors grooveshark downloader".
There is something to be said about the fact that there really is no longer a need to download it though, but just stream it.
sftunaSep 23rd 2010 1:26PM
Crashes at startup every time on XP. So disappointed.
DanSep 23rd 2010 1:51PM
Sebastian likes the word "shit" clearly. He's including screenshots for Bitches Ain't Shit and Shit in my house. :P
I'm just messin' Anthony. I was the firestarter for that "Holy Shit!" headline you had a while back. I don't care in any way, I just find it funny.
Interesting program though, I'll be checking it out.
Sebastian AnthonySep 24th 2010 6:34AM
I used 'crap' this time!
DanSep 24th 2010 8:20AM
Not in the screenshot you didn't. :P
F-ZeroSep 23rd 2010 2:08PM
well well look at that. now it's also the russians who have more internet freedoms than anyone this side of the atlantic
Sebastian AnthonySep 24th 2010 6:36AM
There are certain kinds of freedom that come with unenforced laws... but also lots of problems, too :)
My friend in an ex-communist country put it like this:
Seb: 'Why are you driving so fast?'
Him: 'Because I know some police. They'll let me go if they catch me.'
Corruption, man!
alanrochesterSep 23rd 2010 4:42PM
It works in Linux under Wine...
aahpandasrunSep 23rd 2010 10:16PM
Stuck on connecting. Well it was fun while it lasted. Word spread too fast I guess.
PoppySep 23rd 2010 10:26PM
Now it looks like their site is down.
aahpandasrunSep 23rd 2010 10:28PM
Okay here's an alternative that still works...
http://pirateapp.googlecode.com
defcomxSep 24th 2010 2:25AM
My anti-virus finds a trojan in this program
trojWare.win32.Trojan.agent.gen@125196815
MuzikgodSep 24th 2010 8:04AM
I think that's a false positive and works on my Windows 7 64 pro machine, thnx!
Mldy291Sep 24th 2010 2:21PM
Working fine again now