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Testing out some mp3 hosts, I can’t possible host every mp3 on my server:
Santogold – LES Artistes (Grahm Zilla Remix) … zShare – Apparently, if you’re using FireFox and have that Adblock Plus plugin installed, you won’t be able to download from here (please whitelist PMA if you use that plugin — accept my ads. Bloggers gotta eat! 
) BUT zShare lets you preview the audio before downloading anything (though their ads make me feel sort of awkward). Oh and extremely slow uploading (SaveFile is 4x faster, MediaFire is 3x faster). I sort of hate zShare.
Fleet Foxes – Tiger Mountain Peasant Song … SaveFile – As far as downloads go: it’s fast and simple, though uploading is a pain, but I can live with it.
The Black Ghosts – Any Way (Fake Blood Remix) … MediaFire – The only problem I have with MediaFire is that their servers are iffy and the uploading process is usually glitchy.
Which works best for you?
I’ll stick with Mediafire and SaveFile for my mp3 hosting issues. zShare is officially out. I will also use my pmatunes.com server as well.
Tags: Fleet Foxes, Santogold, The Black Ghosts
Zshare sucks. Straight up can’t take that site anymore. I mean, if I have to I will, but one of these days it’s gonna put me over the edge – and do you want that on your conscience? I think not.
zshare breaks my balls.
it crashes firefox all the time.
mediashare’s not much better.
i say go for savefile or yousendit.
mediafire all the way, though i like your pmatunes direct links SO much more than all of these
Definetly mediafire..its the quickest
I use a cell and opera mini 2 download somgs.so all i can use is savefile.
use zippyshare!
it builds a fast preview and has good download speeds!
I’ve got all three downloading at once, and MediaFire’s the fastest:
1. Mediafire ~ 38 kb/s
2. Savefile ~ 18 kb/s
3. ZShare ~ 16 kb/s
zshare just killed firefox while I was trying it. So I gotta vote for no zshare.
I use a userscript that adds a ‘play’ link behind .mp3 links so I can listen to them in my browser and enjoy them (or not, though thats rare with PMA
) without downloading them first. Both mediafire and savefile have direct mp3 links (eventually), so they get a thumbs up from me.
maybe to appease the people wanting previews, point them towards this: http://www.ghacks.net/2008/05/20/google-inline-mp3-player/ for the user script, or this: http://delicious.com/help/playtagger for a bookmarklet
zshare! who wants to download every single song without previewing it first?
Anything but Zshare. I know people want to preview their songs, blah blah blah, but you can always delete a song if you don’t like it. Real tough, I know, but we Firefox folk will be left high and dry if you go with that.
I think I’m going to stick to direct linking everything I can + SaveFile / Mediafire.
as for previewing: I think I’m going to reinstall Delicious’ playtagger. ive used it before and liked it.
sorry but zShare SUCKS major and I’m tired of it.
Err.. went with Yahoo’s media player.
the remixes are kinda shite..
need to not only preview songs but be able to skip ahead to any point in the song. does yahoo have that??
I HATE HATE HATE zShare. Please please please use mediafire. Its the easiest and the best
please mediafire!
forget zshare, it has waiting times….
mediafire is fast and uncomplicated!
I’ve been using Boxstr for a direct link, as well as DivShare, which lets you preview/listen just like zShare. I’d definitely recommend in instead of or in addition to mediafire for that reason.
zshare was legit until they started blocking adblock plus. and I’m glad to see im not the only one who has the zshare/firefox dilemma