A new entry into the file-sharing market has arrived. Like Napster's unofficial competitor Gnutella, Scour Exchange lets users search for just about every multimedia format available including MP3s and makes the files available for download to your own hard drive. Scour Exchange offers many of the traditional features found in file-sharing software.
Users can search for individual files by format and sort the search based on connection speed.
The software can also scan the users' hard drive and sort any available multimedia files according to their file extensions and place them in folders according to file type. When users want to see which files they have available, they can simply click on the Media Library icon. Added attractions To compete with other software, Scour plans to add a chat feature and the ability to share files even when a user is offline, as well as offering more interaction with the Scour.net search engine. Since the product is still in its early stages, results may vary when you are looking for specific files such as MP3s. Scour Exchange, at the time of this writing, had more than 400 people online with almost 44,000 shared files.