WinMX
Sign in to saveWinMX (Windows Music Exchange) is a freeware peer-to-peer file sharing program authored in 2000 by Kevin Hearn (president of Frontcode Technologies) in Windsor, Ontario (Canada). According to one study, it was the number one source for online music in 2005 with an estimated 2.1 million users. Frontcode Technologies itself abandoned development of WinMX in September 2005, but developers brought the service back online within a few days by releasing patches. WinMX continues to be used by a community of enthusiasts.
Key facts
- Software.collapsible
- yes
- Software.name
- WinMX
- Software.logo
- Wmxlogo.jpg
- Software.screenshot
- Winmxscreenshot.JPG
- Software.screenshot size
- 300px
- Software.developer
- Kevin Hearn (Frontcode Technologies)
- Software.discontinued
- yes
- Software.operating system
- Microsoft Windows
- Software.platform
- Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10
- Software.genre
- File sharing
- Software.license
- Freeware
- Software.website
- Winmx.com (archive)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- software
- Official website
- www.winmx.com
- Image
- WinMX v3.54 beta4.PNG
- Has use
- file sharing
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- operating system
- Microsoft Windows
- copyright license
- freeware
- software version identifier
- 3.54
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Encyclopedic overview
19 sectionsContents
- History
- Beginnings
- Closure of Frontcode Technologies
- Resurrection
- Network attacks
- Tixati and Fopnu
- Function
- Sharing files in WinMX
- Searching for files
- Chatting
- OpenNap
- Translations
- Third-party programs
- Chat
- Upload managers
- Replacement clients
- See also
- References
- External links
WinMX (Windows Music Exchange) is a freeware peer-to-peer file sharing program authored in 2000 by Kevin Hearn (president of Frontcode Technologies) in Windsor, Ontario (Canada). According to one study, it was the number one source for online music in 2005 with an estimated 2.1 million users. Frontcode Technologies itself abandoned development of WinMX in September 2005, but developers brought the service back online within a few days by releasing patches. WinMX continues to be used by a community of enthusiasts.
Kevin Hearn released Tixati in 2009 and Fopnu in 2017. Fopnu is a client and a network with some similarities to WinMX. In 2021, he released DarkMX, a serverless file sharing client with built-in privacy preserving features and a built-in Tor client, as well as the ability to host a .onion file-sharing that is reachable via the Tor Browser.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “WinMX” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.