Earlier today, reviews of the free portable app Mulve made their rounds on the Internet. It probably originated at Torrentfreak and got picked up by other sites shortly thereafter as well.
Mulve, is a free, standalone program to download music from the Internet. It’s biggest feature? Simplicity. A double-click to start, a search phrase, and clicks on the Save button to save the music to the local hard drive. That’s all it takes to download music.
The availability of music is huge. The developers claim the program has access to ten million songs, and it surely feels that way. Search for some hip charts pop trash and you find it, search for other genres or artists and you find them, search for rare stuff and you are likely to get hits as well.
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A click on Extend Search will display more results on the same page. All downloadable with a single click. All results are shown with the artists name, title, length, bitrate and size of the song. It is even possible to sort the music, for instance to display the largest files on top, or to better handle results with multiple artists.
Download speeds are ok and it is possible to download multiple songs at once.
From a technical standpoint, there is not much that can be more comfortable or better. The program could use a search filter and an option to start downloads of multiple files at once.
Torrentfreak scanned a few of the downloads and found out that their source leads to Russia, more precisely the huge social network Vkontakte. Downloads are direct http downloads, there is no sharing involved in the process and the only way to find out that a user has downloaded music is from the traffic logs of the server they were downloaded from.
It is legal? We are no lawyers here. Legalities depend on the laws in the country of the user. For many countries this will likely be a No. The likelihood of discovery on the other hand is slim as well.
What’s your take on Mulve? Let us know in the comments.
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Comodo Antivirus reports a trojan!
Well, that’s likely a false positive, check Virustotal: http://www.virustotal.com/file-scan/report.html?id=afdcf618565d8179e7e0ef55fea2459d5e359dae7d32362bcd16256187be7d53-1285264040
@schemer
Virus Total reports 7 % possibility of malware.
But after checking WOT, Mcafee Site Advisor, Download Squad (where this software has also been reviewed) …
Its safe to say this might be a false positve.
Martin,
I downloaded and extracted the file on two occasions. When running the exe it simply flashes on the screen for a split second and then disappears.
Prior to running it for the first time, I scanned the file with SpySweeper and Avast and neither noted an infection. I don’t run a software firewall, so there has to be an issue with the app. I’m running XP with SP3.
Jim Carter
There is no information on the developers page but maybe it requires the net framework? Can you see anything in the event log?
Other than not having a way to shut down the app (other than the task manager), it seems sort of cool. I would probably use it, if I actually downloaded music.
Martin,
I tried the download again thru Windows 7 64 bit (dual boot PC). The app worked as promised. As a test of the library, I searched for one of the most obscure hits of all time (10 years in radio makes me an authority on one hit wonders). The search/download were a success! Next I copied the exe to the XP side of my machine and this time it worked fine.
I scanned the Mulve exe using Kaspersky 2010 after having already scanned with Avast and SpySweeper (all OK).
I’d suggest that any music downloaded be scanned thru the Virus Total web site. The one song I downloaded was given a clean bill of health.
Jim Carter
Great to hear, strange that it did not work the first time though.
LOL Dead!
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Mulve website is down however you can still download the program at kickasstorrents.com
http://www.kickasstorrents.com/mulve-v1-06-webseeded-t4455879.html
Thank you for this review Martin !!!
Due to one of our team having severe legal issues, we are shutting down Mulve.
This does not mean that we have done wrong, and the charges can not stand up in court, but this has been mainly a hobby project and we do not have the resources to fight.
However, all parts, which formed the Mulve service have been open sourced.
Feel free to take a look at the source and do what you like with it.
http://code.google.com/p/msearch-vk/
So long, and thanks for all the fish.
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Heh good things dont last long ;]]]