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Macster PR 3.5Company: Blackhole MediaWeb: http://www.macster.comPrice: Free (preview version)Requirements: Power Macintosh running Mac OS 8.1 or later with Navigation Services.I have been struggling with myself for awhile whether or not I should reviewMacster. Macster is the Mac client forNapster, a PC program that allowsusers to share MP3s over the Internet and that isvery popular with college students. Such sharingis often illegal, and ATPM does not in any waysupport or tolerate such copyright violations.However, there are legitimate uses for Macster,such as downloading songs that are legally freelyavailable. The most legitimate use that I couldthink of would be downloading a song that youalready own onto your PowerBook while you aretravelling. That would be pretty much the sameas creating MP3s off a CD you bought and takingthose with you. Please try to respect copyrightlaws.Macster Preview 3.5 is not a final product—which is supposed to be released in a few months—but it is relatively stable and most basicfunctions (most importantly downloading and searching for songs) are already implemented.Macster’s functions are simple. After creating an account with a Napster server, you log intoa server and can search for any song by artist name or song name, and even filter by bit rate,recording quality, and line speed of the file server. The line speed is important if you want todownload a file quickly. If you are in a rush, avoid 56K hosts and go straight for T3+, T1,DSL, or Cable hosts.The result of the search is shown in a result window that displays the name of the song, filesize in MB, bit rate, length of the song, the user who originated the file, the line speed of theATPM 6.04 ← 117 →Stuff: MP3 Player Roundup (II)