Hit Discovery 1.0 beta

Hit Discovery description:

Hit Discovery is a multi-threaded web-spider designed to search for and download mp3 files that allows you to listen to mp3 previews before downloading them. It will search for mp3 files you want and download them from any website on the Internet. The main feature of Hit Discovery is that it allows you to listen to an mp3 preview before downloading the entire mp3 file.
Before retrieving mp3 files you need to tell Hit Discovery one or more addresses of the websites, mp3 top lists, or favorite music collections you want to retrieve mp3 files from; the name of the artists or music groups you are looking for and then begin the search.
The Hit Discovery spider will visit the sites in turn and examine their pages for links and mp3 files. If Hit Discovery finds mp3 files matching your conditions, it retrieves not the entire mp3 file, but a small portion of the mp3 file called an mp3 preview. The duration of mp3 previews usually is a few seconds (by default, 10 sec., but you can change the value).
Once you have retrieved a preview, Hit Discovery allows you to listen to the preview and decide: to retrieve the entire mp3 file or not. If you like the mp3 preview, Hit Discovery allows you to download the entire mp3 file.
If you could not decide whether you want to download the entire mp3 file because of the small length of its preview, Hit Discovery allows you to download more of the preview (retrieve and add a new portion of the mp3 file to the already downloaded portion).
In the program options you can set the preview starting point from the beginning of the mp3 files. In this instance previews will be cut from the middle parts of mp3 files. It is designed to exclude a song introduction, which usually is difficult to assess the song quality from.
The program has its own mp3 player, allowing you to listen to mp3 files and previews.

Hit Discovery 1.0 beta was released on Mar 25, 2003. The current version will run on Windows 95, 98, Me, 2000, NT, XP.

Hit Discovery is a shareware. You will be able to use the evaluation version available for download during a limited period, after what you will have to buy the full version to continue to use Hit Discovery.

Size of Hit Discovery 1.0 beta download is less than 769 Kb. DSL users will only need one minute to achieve the download, when 2 minutes may be required when using a 56k modem. (See below to download Hit Discovery 1.0 beta).