Audiogalaxy Was Better Than Soulseek

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Now that Audiogalaxy is back as a P2P
Audiogalaxy Back As P2P?

Here is where we debate what was best.Audiogalaxy was my favorite. Audiogalaxy just had a huge selection FAR greater than ssoulseek. Yes slsk has improved in the last year, but it still doesnt have as much as Ag ever did. Ag was even better for dance music than slsk but also for indie,pop,disco,rock,metal,synthpop,jazz, ANYTHING. You always got the tracks you wanted at the fastest speed possible, noone could ban you(happens all the time on slsk), wasnt list only where its impossible to get some stuff, when a track that was offline came online it would download. You could have groups where you could chat but also remove people if they were assholes. You could also send songs to members of the group. Wouldnt it be great if everyone on ILX could be sent songs that are spoken about here That could be done on Ag not soulseek.
I havent tried the new version of Audiogalaxy yet but could any of this be done there?

― Ronnie, Sunday, 1 June 2003 17:08 (twenty-two years ago)

soulseek's selection is faaaar greater than audiogalaxy's was, and if audiogalaxy's back as a p2p it's one advantage over soulseek has been squandered.

― James Blount (James Blount), Sunday, 1 June 2003 17:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I've never failed to find anything on Soulseek, unlike Audiogalaxy...so there...

― DG (D_To_The_G), Sunday, 1 June 2003 17:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Audiogalaxy was far superior in everyway. As ronnie states : Faster speeds, greater selection ,no queues,groups. Would love to have songs sent to me again. I like the idea of an ILM group where songs that are spoke about can be sent out.
Audiogalaxy could be good again in time when more people use it. May take several months before its any good. No reason why you cant run both progs meanwhile (unless you have dial-up) I like the look of the new prog.

― Gerry Brown, Sunday, 1 June 2003 17:16 (twenty-two years ago)

audiogalaxy's interface always sucked

― jess (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 1 June 2003 17:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Hi.

― Ferg (Ferg), Sunday, 1 June 2003 17:17 (twenty-two years ago)

I really don't want songs sent to me. and there already IS an ILM group where people can browse whoever's files for whatever.

― James Blount (James Blount), Sunday, 1 June 2003 17:18 (twenty-two years ago)

also, in terms of downloading an entire album (and getting the actual album instead of mismatched files with the same title) soulseek blows audiogalaxy away

― James Blount (James Blount), Sunday, 1 June 2003 17:20 (twenty-two years ago)

plus, again, better selection which is mostly what matters to me

― James Blount (James Blount), Sunday, 1 June 2003 17:20 (twenty-two years ago)

audiogalaxy's interface always sucked

A good thing about AG's satellite was that you could leave it open at home, while browsing and adding files to your queue at work (or school or wherever).

― Paul Cox (paul cox), Sunday, 1 June 2003 17:38 (twenty-two years ago)

actually, yeah, that's a pretty nice feature. but my main complaint was more along the lines of blounts...finding whole albums was nearly impossible with ag.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 1 June 2003 17:39 (twenty-two years ago)

i liked Audiogalaxy's groups thing. While I would come home or wake up and find that a fair amount of shite had been sent to me, Serendipity was also present in that I'd find little gems hidden amongst the many New Order remix/bootlegs. Finally hearing The Fizzbombs' "Sign on the Dotted Line" was one of them.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Sunday, 1 June 2003 18:02 (twenty-two years ago)

napster was best

― testest (testest), Sunday, 1 June 2003 18:05 (twenty-two years ago)

I also,agree,with,Ronnie.

― Bernard, Sunday, 1 June 2003 18:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I've never failed to find anything on Soulseek, unlike Audiogalaxy...so there...
You're lucky then. Every time I used it I got the following
No Files Shared Error Getting File List
or the Search function that does.....nnnnnnothing whatsoever. You could tell it to look for "*" (which means find ANYTHING) and it'll just sit there...Searching...forever...and never finding ANYTHING.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Sunday, 1 June 2003 18:08 (twenty-two years ago)

the worst thing with slsk is some of the pompous users. The cliques who share only between themselves but are happy to dl from everyone.

gets right on my nipple ends.

― scottjames23 (worrysome-man), Sunday, 1 June 2003 18:17 (twenty-two years ago)

...cliques who share only between themselves but are happy to dl from everyone.

How I handle that problem: "ban user"

― Paul Cox (paul cox), Sunday, 1 June 2003 18:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes. slsk is Leech Heaven for the early adopters.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Sunday, 1 June 2003 18:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Finding albums on Audiogalaxy was a fucking nightmare.

― Evan (Evan), Sunday, 1 June 2003 19:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Custos, you can add your unlucky searches into the wish list, it keeps searching automaticly for you. Soulseek is Heaven! i only have one word on my wish list.

― Jrvision (visionjr), Sunday, 1 June 2003 19:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Audiogalaxy had some charms, but I think Soulseek is just a lot better. For the most part, the only real reason why I can't find something is that no one has ever released it on cd or turned it into an mp3. I find the communities on Slsk to be way better, and the IM function has been very helpful to me many times over.

Lord Custos Epsilon: it sounds like you just don't know how to use the damned thing.

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Sunday, 1 June 2003 19:41 (twenty-two years ago)

It's memory-hogginess is really driving me crazy.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Sunday, 1 June 2003 19:50 (twenty-two years ago)

(*blows raspberry at Matthew Perpetua*)

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Sunday, 1 June 2003 20:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Audiogalaxy was fucking great. The killer app was that it ranked songs by popularity, so if you were checking out the unknown, their 4 best songs would likely be in the top 5 listed. I miss it.

― autovac (autovac), Sunday, 1 June 2003 20:53 (twenty-two years ago)

slsk is far better for albums as someone said, but man I must be far more anal with mp3s than a lot of slsk users... the ones who just have a folder labelled 'house' or 'electronic' and have this monster mess in there...

I liked AudioGalaxy as I could run the client at home, and use the web interface at work, thus not getting myself in shit with work...

― dsp wanker (dsp wanker), Sunday, 1 June 2003 20:55 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah I do miss being able to do that, and the memoryhogginess is still a HUGE annoyance

― James Blount (James Blount), Sunday, 1 June 2003 21:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I've used both, and I would still pick soulseek -- I've been able to find a lot more there, depite the asshattery of people who refuse to share files.

― Nicole (Nicole), Sunday, 1 June 2003 21:07 (twenty-two years ago)

It's memory-hogginess is really driving me crazy.

I meant ITS I swear.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Sunday, 1 June 2003 21:13 (twenty-two years ago)

I find it funny that no one has mentioned the fact that Nir@slsk has had the class and decency not to bundle spyware into his software. AG cannot make the same claim.

― Mike Taylor (mjt), Monday, 2 June 2003 01:28 (twenty-two years ago)

In terms of being able to stay logged in, Audiogalaxy was far superior. I never had a problem with getting kicked out with their software or getting logged out "by accident" on the website front. With SoulSeek, I get kicked off the system on a regular basis, and half the time I have a very hard time logging back in. But on a selection basis, SoulSeek has the edge. I still haven't found all the Black Dyke Mills Band songs I want to get (hey, I'm a "Ground Force" fan), but there are a pileload of songs I've been able to get with SoulSeek that I never was able to get with Audiogalaxy.

I wouldn't pass on Kazaa Lite either, though. Believe it or not, I've been able to find some slightly obscure-ish material on Kazaa Lite that I haven't been able to find on SoulSeek. I certainly would not operate the full Kazaa program, but Kazaa Lite works ok for me.

*sigh* Still, I wish Napster was still around the way it was before. I also wish Lyrics.ch was still around. </person="old Internet user"></mood="fuddy duddy">

― Dee the Lurker (Dee the Lurker), Monday, 2 June 2003 04:49 (twenty-two years ago)

There was a great little Audiogalaxy add-on available who's name currently eludes me that actually searched out full albums for you and queued them up. For about a month it was great, but then AG went tits-up and my music collection has never been the same since.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 2 June 2003 07:14 (twenty-two years ago)

audiogalaxy just *looked* better.
all blue ! soulseek just looks like napster.
as soulseek has got better/older it's
been easier to find everything/anything.
but yeah ultimately the AG idea of re-queueing
and sorting while *at work* but actually downloading
at home takes some beating.

― piscesboy, Monday, 2 June 2003 10:26 (twenty-two years ago)

slsk has dropped an anvil on my computer. you can hear the fucking thing creak nowadays. selection is second only tot he height of napster.

― matthew james (matthew james), Monday, 2 June 2003 13:29 (twenty-two years ago)

"soulseek's selection is faaaar greater than audiogalaxy's was"

??? You're out of your mind.

― Ben Williams, Monday, 2 June 2003 17:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I guess it would depend on what you're looking for. I think slsk has a lot more dance and rap than audiogalaxy ever did.

― Nicole (Nicole), Monday, 2 June 2003 17:41 (twenty-two years ago)

There's absolutely no way of quantifying of course. But all I know is that I search for a lot of different types of stuff, populist and obscure--rap and dance featuring heavily--and I virtually never came up empty on Audiogalaxy. Soulseek has gotten way way better in the last few months I think, but even so... I think I still can't find things about 10% of the time. If there's one area it's really great at I would say its obscure electronic music, I guess.

Aside from that, you could usually download stuff on AG in about 5 minutes every time, whereas on Soulseek I regularly have to leave the computer on for 2-3 days straight hoping that that one person who has what I'm looking for will get through the 500-1000 tunes that are ahead of me in his queue... and I always liked the way you could search for stuff on AG from any computer and then download it all later when you fired up the actual engine...

Anyway, like, who cares? Happy to have Soulseek. But it's no competition for AG in my opinion.

― Ben Williams, Monday, 2 June 2003 17:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, downloading albums is easier with Soulseek. What I liked about Audiogalaxy was you could search for an artist and download a substantial taste of their music just by queueing the first however many tracks you wanted - with little chance of encountering dupes or crappy encodings. Didn't even have to look at the song names, just click the first one or two dozen satellite icons and wait. queueing up a mountain of stuff and going to bed worked great for me.

― Stuart (Stuart), Monday, 2 June 2003 17:57 (twenty-two years ago)

"you could usually download stuff on AG in about 5 minutes every time, whereas on Soulseek I regularly have to leave the computer on for 2-3 days straight hoping that that one person who has what I'm looking for will get through the 500-1000 tunes that are ahead of me in his queue" - see this is the one advantage audiogalaxy's squandering if they go p2p. also, for example, say I want to find/download a particular prince concert from 1986 I can find it (with some ease) on slsk and get the ENTIRE concert whereas with audiogalaxy I might - MIGHT - be able to find one song from it. Audiogalaxy had advantages, but selection was not one of them.

― James Blount (James Blount), Monday, 2 June 2003 18:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Was so!

― Ben Williams, Monday, 2 June 2003 18:06 (twenty-two years ago)

nuh uh!

― James Blount (James Blount), Monday, 2 June 2003 18:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Well alright, but so what the fuck is FolderShare? "Secure" file server with web interface and "community" features? Looks like you have to add users manually... it's not a searchable database of open files.

― Stuart (Stuart), Monday, 2 June 2003 18:12 (twenty-two years ago)

The "automatic replication" feature might be a nice way to keep things backed up and/or synced on different machines.

― Stuart (Stuart), Monday, 2 June 2003 18:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I could actually find semi-obscure jazz stuff on AG.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 2 June 2003 18:20 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

I suppose it is these days.
Audiogalaxy was really good though wasn't it?

― arachnoid, Monday, 9 May 2005 18:16 (twenty years ago)

I liked AG a lot. I still cant figure out how to fix my ports on slsk - it keeps getting worse.

― vanessa novaeris (novaeris), Monday, 9 May 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

Scour Exchange

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Monday, 9 May 2005 18:53 (twenty years ago)

Re: selection

I went from Napster to AG. I found nothing on Napster, and was blown away with all of the obscurities I found on AG immediatly.

I was on AG the moment it shutdown, and went to slsk permantly about an hour later. I couldn't find anymore obscure stuff, but soon, I noticed specialty users I encounteres at AG at SoulSeek about a week into it. I shared my 1986 Miami Bass in return for users that deal in pre-1920 78's.

I think the specialty users from AG is what makes slsk so good today. Not to toot my own horn...more for all those people offereing 78's!

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Monday, 9 May 2005 19:47 (twenty years ago)

AG was great, and I may agree it was the best ever. At least for single tracks. The reason why it was best, however, was that it had a centralized database of songs that users had used. Such a centralized database was very difficult to get away with juridically, and thus they had no choice but to stop.

Soulseek is still great for the fact that you may choose to download an entire directory, although this sucks whenever somebody doesn't organize his mp3 collection properly.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 9 May 2005 20:00 (twenty years ago)

yeah, Audiogalaxy was better for downloading some - sometimes obscure - songs, but Slsk is better for entire albums. enough said.

― zeus, Tuesday, 10 May 2005 04:55 (twenty years ago)

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