September 20, 2010 by sharky
Music fans finally have something new to rejoice over; and that’s Mulve - a tiny standalone app that’s changing the way how music is downloaded. OK, don’t expect Mulve to replace What.CD anytime soon, but this revolutionary app is the answer to everything that’s wrong with conventional ‘peer-to-peer’ networks. With a searchable database in excess of 10 million songs, quite likely you’ll never use Limewire/Frostwire again - and with good reason.
By its own design Mulve is leech-only; it’s also quick to pull search results, and download speeds will usually max out your home Internet connection. Individual songs will complete in as little as 4 seconds (a 5MB file on a 10Mbit line will finish in under 5 seconds in most cases).
What Mulve Isn’t:
It’s not "P2P", whereby users are sharing files with other unknown users.
Unlike Limewire, Frostwire, eMule, DC++ or other peer-to-peer, users do not share their IP address with other peers, nor are you inclined to use or create a risky "sharing folder" which may include your own incriminating files. There is absolutely no sharing involved with Mulve; it is a one-directional leech application which, in a way, is similar to FTP or even direct-download links from RS, Hotfile - except much faster.
Since Mulve is not a decentralized network, there’s never a risk of contracting viruses from the downloaded files. No mislabeled or renamed songs, no surprises.
It’s not BitTorrent.
No ratios, no seeding, no wasted upload bandwidth eating up your monthly cap.
Public trackers, private trackers - personal IPs are the backbone behind the ‘tracker’ inasmuch that no trackers are truly safe. We all know that the BT protocol is unsecure. Not to mention that BT isn’t exactly the best protocol for singles; very few torrents contain just one song. Have you ever tried to wean someone away from Limewire, and then introduce them to BitTorrent? I try constantly and get this, "Uhmm, I just download songs I want; I’m not really into albums". My rebuttal is, "yeah, but you can deselect files in the torrent…". At this point I’m still in shock that in 2010 there’s a demography of youthful Internet users who can’t wrap their heads around BitTorrent.
It’s not Usenet or FTP.
It could be, but it’s not. Usenet isn’t free anyways. At first we considered Mulve to perhaps be a new method of indexing MP3s found on open/public FTPs, but it turns out this was an incorrect theory. Read on.
What Mulve Is:
As far as we know, there’s never been anything quite like this before. In essence, Mulve is a lightweight app that connects directly to an array of servers that host the music files. Exactly how Mulve gets its search results has always been a bit of a mystery, so we contacted the dev team in order to get their perspective to the magic behind Mulve. They conclude:
"Without giving too much away, I can tell you that we are obviously not a P2P client and in fact we don’t search open FTPs. Instead we directly connect to a few other servers overseas which store the music. Unfortunately, I cannot reveal which these are."
— Mulve is completely safe and free to use. 100% clear of spyware/malware or viruses.
— Requires no installation, no registration, no configuration. Simply unpack Mulve.zip, run Mulve.exe and enjoy!
Mulve Tips:
• Help/Tips can be found by right-clicking on the title bar, then select "Display help".
• Due to the sheer magnitude of the reservoir of available songs that Mulve taps into, try to conduct searches for song titles rather than artist names.
• Look for HQ music. Whenever possible, avoid downloading anything with a bitrate lower than 192 (320 is best). Click the Bitrate heading column to filter the search results from high to low.
• By default, 100 results are shown for each search query. Click Extend Search to get the next 100.
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