# What's your Napster name? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 23, 2000, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-napster-name/38000 "2000-10-23T19:05:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![SoMoMom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@SoMoMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SoMoMom)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2000, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-napster-name/38000/41 "2000-11-28T18:21:17Z")
My name is SoMoMom. I have a lot of Cheap Trick and some punk stuff. It’s hard telling what I might have on my library for a day or two. Once I had the a German techno dance version of Rubber Duckie but that got old real fast. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2000, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-napster-name/38000/42 "2000-11-28T22:57:23Z")
My name is **greenverdugo**. I have a 33.6 connection (bad phone lines here in Hooterville) but I did get a few people downloading my stuff last night. So far, I have 40-something files, but I just had an extra HD added to my PC, specifically for MP3s and audio. So I expect my music library collection to grow. I have mostly film music, (and a little bit of bad '80s music that I downloaded last night.) I have a _massive_ (and quite admirable) film music collection - still need to convert more of it to MP3. I do concentrate a bit on film composer Jerry Goldsmith, who has somewhat of a cult following. I suspect that I’ll get people occasionally downloading my files, even though I have a slow connection, because I have some fabulous (and rare) Goldsmith files. We’ll see. I’ll usually be on Napster late at night. And now that Napster has a Mac version, I’ll be using that as well! (I am cross-platform.) ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2000, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-napster-name/38000/43 "2000-11-29T00:56:40Z")
I’m **Shayna61** on Napster, but I have a bunch of weird stuff downloaded - LOL. Question for the techies out there. I also use **Napigator** to connect sometimes, especially when I want to share files with someone specific and we both log onto the same server that way. That’s the problem with sharing screen names here with each other - you never know if or when you might get connected to the same Napster server. Well, I was checking out the Napigator home page and it seems that we could set up our own “Nap Server” and call it whatever we want… > [@](#): > > **CAN I RUN MY OWN NAP SERVER?** > Why certainly! Running your own Nap server is easy and free. > > First you will need a machine running UNIX, preferably Linux to run it from. Secondly, you will have to download the free and Open Source Nap server Opennap. > > Compiling and configuring it takes some knowledge, and a bit of UNIX experience, so running your own server should be left to the more advanced users. But those who are interested, can find all the help and tutorials they need, along with the downloadable source code to Opennap by [clicking here](http://opnnap.sourceforge.net/). > > If you do manage to get a server up and running, that will be online 24 hours a day, and want to see it listed in Napigator visit our [admins page](http://www.napgator.com/admins), signup for an account and add your server. So do we have anyone here running a UNIX server who’d be willing to set something up called straightdope or dopers or some such thing so we would all have one place to go to find each other? [Links disabled by moderator. It is currently against Chicago Reader policy to provide open links to Napster-related sites. I know that this wasn’t a deliberate attempt to break the rules, so I’ll forgo to usual “Comfy Chair” torture. This time. :)] [Edited by slythe on 11-29-2000 at 06:17 PM] ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2000, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-napster-name/38000/44 "2000-11-29T01:23:21Z")
My Napster name is jelliot2. I’ve got about 1,500 songs, all genres - mostly stuff I don’t have in my CD collection, but I just got some software to transfer my CD tracks to mp3’s, so I’ll have some of that stuff on there soon. I’ve got DSL, too, so you can d/l from me pretty fast. If you see any lame songs on my list, they’re probably my girlfriend’s (gotta go before she sees this). ---
**Author:** ![SoMoMom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@SoMoMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SoMoMom)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2000, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-napster-name/38000/45 "2000-11-29T15:42:48Z")
Thank you **pricciar** for mentioning radio shows. My daughter was watching Abbott and Costello on the Biography channel last night and enjoying it very much. We’ve told her about “Who’s on first?”, but she’s never had the opportunity to hear it. Last night she heard just enough of it to frustrate her. Because of your post, I thought, “Hey I bet I can find that on Napster!” So, now my little girl can finally hear it. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2000, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-napster-name/38000/46 "2000-11-29T16:44:41Z")
**pricciar & SoMoMom** , just thought I’d share the Napster user I just found so you can check out his/her library. The username is **ve4in** and they’ve got a whole bunch of files under “Old Time Radio.” A short list includes Burns & Allen, Jackie Gleason, Jack Benny, Red Skelton, Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy, CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Sherlock Holmes and lots more. Oh wow, I just found another one. This guy has 6,300 files!! **radiorider** - check him out. ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2000, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-napster-name/38000/47 "2000-11-29T22:43:21Z")
Shayna, I tried to get a song from you library last night, but there was some sort of error! Something about a firewall, which I don’t have. (I wanted a song by “Go West”. I’ll try again later.) I have found a new Mission in Life. I am going to rip MP3s of several extremely rare/out of print CDs in my collection, and put them in my Napster library. Napster _needs_ me! There is a sad lack of tracks from the rare, out of print soundtrack to “Under Fire” (by Jerry Goldsmith.) Well, not anymore! Mwahahaha! I have ripped the entire score and put them in my library. More rare scores to follow. Tell all your friends! 😃 (I’m just kidding…) The people who want rare scores will find them…and find me. If they want to tolerate my 33.6 connection, they will. Napster has come at a good time for me. I needed something to keep my mind off the news of this election. ---
**Author:** ![Homer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Homer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homer)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2000, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-napster-name/38000/48 "2000-11-29T23:25:06Z")
Geez. I added radiorider to my hotlist. Napster locks up when I’m trying to resolve his list! ACK! –Tim ---
**Author:** ![ElusiveMiser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c37758/32.png) [@ElusiveMiser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElusiveMiser)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2000, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-napster-name/38000/49 "2000-11-30T00:11:56Z")
“OprimusPrimo” What up. ---
**Author:** ![Falcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/49beb7/32.png) [@Falcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Falcon)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2000, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-napster-name/38000/50 "2000-11-30T05:26:58Z")
Falcon\_1204. Have 530 MP3s, and the collection is…varied. Very varied. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![BigGiantHead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b4bc9f/32.png) [@BigGiantHead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigGiantHead)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2000, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-napster-name/38000/51 "2000-11-30T05:38:00Z")
Imtheratgodeek, which I admit I blatantly modeled after (plagiarized from) poster here. 500-ish files, heavy into off-beat comedy stuff, both spoken and musical (e.g., the [Bobs](http://www.bobs.com)). Other than that, mainly modern “alternative”. I try to stay on most of the time, DSL’s a wonderful thing. ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2000, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-napster-name/38000/52 "2000-11-30T20:45:46Z")
I have some of my rare soundtracks now in my library. Even with my pathetic 33.6 connection, people are uploading from my library. 3 at a time, waiting to get more. (I feel _so_ special!) I didn’t realize how much it slows down my connection, though, when all these people are uploading. I am going to change my upload limit to 2 (or maybe 1) at a time. I like to share, but man, it drags everything down so much! I need DSL, dammit! [And on that note, I find that I must lock this thread off, having been informed that it the official policy of the Chicago Reader to discourage that which supports Napster, until it is finally determined in the courts that what it does is legal and above board. If it is finally determined that Napster is legal, I will personally unlock this thread and bump it to the top myself. -slythe :)] [Edited by slythe on 11-30-2000 at 05:39 PM] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-napster-name/38000.md?page=2)