While TorrentFreak is naturally a site that reports on file-sharing issues and software, sometimes a new product will come along that involves no sharing at all and is simply too impressive to ignore. Just pure, unadulterated music downloading. This particular application, called Mulve, comes in a package of just 2mb and once unzipped reveals two files, the installer itself and a text file on how to donate to the project.
Of course, people tend to panic that this type of software may contain some sort of virus or malware, but Mulve seems to be clean. The results of 43 virus scanners show that only two feel that the file may be suspicious, which seems to suggest a false positive on their behalf. For the purposes of a review, we’ll take a chance….
So what is Mulve? Here are its creators describing their product:
Big claims like these are hard to live up to, but we’ve tested Mulve and it delivers – with style.
The software requires no further installation once unpacked and runs directly from the 1.9mb .exe file. Once running the user simply enters a search – below we’ve shown a couple of the results available for songs by Dan Bull of ‘Dear Lily’ and ‘Dear Mandy’ fame (because he’s a cool guy and a friend of ours).
Rest assured though, searches for just about any song brings up a wealth of results and in many cases lead to high quality MP3s, right up to 320kbs.
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