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i went and removed it off my computer in the hope reinstalling would make it work again, then i found the webpage down and wish i hadn't..

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 4 September 2003 22:51 (twenty-one years ago)

been down for me all day

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 4 September 2003 22:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not on a PC, but I saw this posted on another forum the other day, perhaps it can help you?

If you can't get it to work, search your hard drive for a file named 'hosts', open in notepad and add:

38.115.131.131 sk2.slsk.org

38.115.131.131 www.slsk.org

38.115.131.131 mail.slsk.org

38.115.131.131 server.slsk.org

to the bottom of the file and save. The domain has been buggered up by forces unknown and it is really tricky to log on. You should now be able to use it.

― JS Williams (js williams), Thursday, 4 September 2003 22:59 (twenty-one years ago)

http://slskboard.savagenews.com/index.php?showtopic=1782

right here boys and girls

― astroblaster (astroblaster), Thursday, 4 September 2003 23:07 (twenty-one years ago)

or go here instead for more up to date information and a fix.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 4 September 2003 23:35 (twenty-one years ago)

download the fix at the website given above.some kind of domain problem

― evan chronister (evan chronister), Friday, 5 September 2003 01:41 (twenty-one years ago)

The soulseek guy (dammit can't remember his name) forgot to reregister his domain name. Thats all. The machines are up and running, but when you look for slsk.org you get no IP. At least that's what I've heard. Luckily I have the IP cached so I'm still using it. It's actually kind of nice right now because the hardcore folks are up and running because of their geekiness/soulseek addiction so I can still find the odd stuff that I'm looking for, but the traffic is back to what it was before soulseek "got big" and the server(s) couldn't scale as well.

But yeah, download the fix (which just connects to the IP rather than doing the DNS lookup) or do the hosts file trick (edit /etc/hosts on *nix or whatever it is on Windows or whatever platform you're running) and it should work fine.

― Mike Salmo (salmo), Friday, 5 September 2003 03:44 (twenty-one years ago)

thanks, have altered /etc/hosts accordingly and everything is working great.

Soulseek guy is called nir.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 5 September 2003 06:05 (twenty-one years ago)

thanks for dog latin for putting this q. I have not been downloading for the last couple of days and thought the server was down again. will try 'stuff'.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 5 September 2003 07:57 (twenty-one years ago)

It was kind of odd being the only person in the ILM room. But indeed, all the queues are gone! Fast searches!

― Siegbran (eofor), Friday, 5 September 2003 08:09 (twenty-one years ago)

And those of us who have donated have 10 days added to our privileges, which is a nice surprise.

― Angus Gordon (angusg), Friday, 5 September 2003 13:35 (twenty-one years ago)

indeed it was.

― Nathan W (Nathan Webb), Friday, 5 September 2003 13:41 (twenty-one years ago)

how do i get to the ilm room? kind of new to slsk, but have really been digging it...

― marcg (marcg), Friday, 5 September 2003 13:45 (twenty-one years ago)

On the bottom right there's a list of rooms, just sort by name, then find & doubleclick on the ILM one.

To automatically join the room when starting up slsk, rightclick in the ILM room, "toggle autojoin".

― Siegbran (eofor), Friday, 5 September 2003 13:49 (twenty-one years ago)

i love you guys

― dan (dan), Friday, 5 September 2003 15:07 (twenty-one years ago)

is there a way to fix it without having to be a genius? because i don't have any idea what that help page is talking about. will it just be back up soon on its own?

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Saturday, 6 September 2003 00:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Just download the thing (the patch) and install it. Easy peezy.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Saturday, 6 September 2003 00:09 (twenty-one years ago)

When you install it, just do everything it sez, and when it asks to use your C:\Program Files\Soulseek directory, what it's really telling you to do is to send money to my address.

― Leee (Leee), Saturday, 6 September 2003 00:15 (twenty-one years ago)

is there a decent mac alternative?

― phil-two (phil-two), Saturday, 6 September 2003 06:43 (twenty-one years ago)

virtual pc and run slsk. seriously. there are no good file sharing progs on mac i can find :/

― chaki (chaki), Saturday, 6 September 2003 06:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Has anyone used earth station 5? According to the hype it's supposed to be totally immunce to people spying on you.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Saturday, 6 September 2003 09:51 (twenty-one years ago)

How do I download Soulseek again now that I've stupidly wiped it from my computer? Is there an alternative host?

― dog latin (dog latin), Saturday, 6 September 2003 11:23 (twenty-one years ago)

slsk.blogspot.com

― Siegbran (eofor), Saturday, 6 September 2003 11:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Phil-two - Acquisition and iSwipe are the best I've found for OS X. No, they don't have as much as slsk. There's some weirdass way to run slsk on OS X that Ed details here, but I don't trust myself not to bugger up my machine.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 6 September 2003 12:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I managed to get slsk running on OSX yesterday without too many difficulties. I believe this solution requires version 10.2.
This is what worked for me:

1. Download MacPython 2.3 (link 5.8MB) and install the .pkg file

2. Download wxPythonOSX-2.4.1.2-py2.3.dmg (link 11.5MB) and install the .pkg files

3. In Finder, locate and open the MacPython-2.3 folder. Load PythonLauncher and uncheck "Run in a Terminal Window" from PythonLauncher's Preferences window.

4. Download and unstuff PySoulseek 1.2.4 (link 95k).

5. In Finder, locate and open the pyslsk-1.2.4 folder. Rename the file pyslsk to pyslsk.py (you get a prompt to confirm adding the extension; click Add).

6. Control-click on pyslsk.py and select Get Info from the popup menu. Click the triangle next to "Open with" and set the popup to PythonLauncher.

7. Doubleclick pyslsk.py to launch slsk.

8. In menu File ->Settings, change the server from mail.slsk.org:2240 to 38.115.131.131:2240 to work around the IP problem explained upthread. Also set login name, download directory, personal info etc.

9. Select menu File->Connect

It worked for me.

― Jeremy (Jeremy), Saturday, 6 September 2003 14:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks for that - it looks somewhat less daunting.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 6 September 2003 14:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I wish I had broadband. I can't download all of that. If you're going ahead with that, N., let us know how it goes.

― Cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 6 September 2003 14:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Why not download it with iGetter while you are sleeping?

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 6 September 2003 14:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Because I don't know what iGetter is.

― Cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 6 September 2003 14:35 (twenty-one years ago)

It's a shareware program that manages downloads much more robustly than browsers do. You set it to pause and resume downloads, and even automatically reconnect to the net if your connection drops off.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 6 September 2003 19:29 (twenty-one years ago)

N. and Jeremy - Unless there have been pretty major improvements in wxPython, pyslsk crashes pretty regularly using that program. The method Ed mentions (also, in more/better detail here:
http://slskboard.savagenews.com/index.php?showtopic=5830 ) is pretty much fool/bullet-proof. It is an involved process, and takes a while (though you actually have to do very little, the installation process can take your computer a couple of hours altogether), but you can't really screw up your system in the process. The reason for this is that you are not doing anything to your OS X system. Rather, the download and installation program, fink, creates it's own separate file hierarchy. If you do somehow manage to screw anything up, only other fink-installed files will be affected. And if you decide that you want to get rid of pyslsk or anything else you've installed with fink, you can just delete the sw directory. soulseek aside,I'd recommend playing with fink a bit just to get a basic familiarity of some of what's going on behind the scenes in OS X... but I'm geeky like that

― flightsatdusk (flightsatdusk), Saturday, 6 September 2003 19:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 6 September 2003 19:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I think you should do it, N. The Ed way. Set an example I can follow.

― David. (Cozen), Saturday, 6 September 2003 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I wonder if it's worth it without broadband anyway (I have a feeling the developer tools updates are going to be some enormous 80GB file or something). But maybe I will.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 6 September 2003 19:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Err - my exaggeration was supposed to only run to 80MB.

― N. (nickdastoor), Saturday, 6 September 2003 19:58 (twenty-one years ago)

If you include X11 and fink, 80MB might not be an exaggeration... Didn't realize you were on a dial-up. Might not be worth it, then...

― flightsatdusk (flightsatdusk), Saturday, 6 September 2003 20:21 (twenty-one years ago)

flightsatdusk, the method I used quits on me occasionally when I run multiple searches, but is otherwise quite usable and stable. I didn't go the Fink/X11 route because I'm also on dialup, and there was just too much to download.

Anyway, the option is there if anyone wants to try it. About an hour and a half of downloads on a 56k connection.

― Jeremy (Jeremy), Sunday, 7 September 2003 11:33 (twenty-one years ago)

The guy at http://www.sensi.org/~ak/pyslsk/ says he's stopping developing pyslsk and directs people to what he regards as its successor, Nicotine. Anyone tried that?

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 7 September 2003 11:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry she, not he.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 7 September 2003 12:21 (twenty-one years ago)

No, I was right the first time.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 7 September 2003 12:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I've got both Nicotine and pyslsk. They both seem to be more or less identical on the fink/x11 at this point, but given that Nicotine is still being developed and pyslsk isn't, this might change. Nicotine may run better on the setup Jeremy is using, I don't know (I imagine it would work at least as well, if not better, than pyslsk). As a bit of an aside, I think that both pyslsk and Nicotine are better than the Windows slsk client, and Nir would do well to incorporate some of their features...

― flightsatdusk (flightsatdusk), Sunday, 7 September 2003 16:33 (twenty-one years ago)

so i downloaded nictotine and open the install information and get this:

Linux/Unix installation instructions follow.

To install Nicotine, from the source tree run:

python setup.py install --prefix=

If you omit --prefix Nicotine will be installed into the python system
directory (typically /usr)

This is not recommended however, as there is no way to uninstall things
easily this way.

The recommended way of running Nicotine is from the source tree, which might
seem strange, but is no problem at all, especially if you are the only user of
the system that is interested in running Nicotine. From the source tree run:

python ./nicotine

Another option would be that you create an RPM from the source tree:

python setup.py bdist_rpm

which will create a binary RPM in the dist subdirectory of the source tree.

Note: to build source distribution (.tar.bz2) from itself, run:

python setup.py sdist --formats=bztar

does one have to be a linux geek to run the prog?

― dog latin (dog latin), Sunday, 7 September 2003 20:33 (twenty-one years ago)

not necessarilly. fink is the key. download fink, then use fink to install nicotine.
(in your terminal, type "fink install nicotine") more in-depth instructions here:

http://slskboard.savagenews.com/index.php?showtopic=8173

actually, i think the text you're quoting is from the red hat installation instructions. and yes, you do need to be a linux geek to do that. but why would you be messing around with red hat if you weren't a linux geek?

― flightsatdusk (flightsatdusk), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 15:31 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't have linux.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 19:56 (twenty-one years ago)

i am a windows prole.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 20:00 (twenty-one years ago)

four months pass...

oh, i know this is four months old, but i've just tried installing it on my new PC and i'm getting nothing.

anyone help? or has it gone now?

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Monday, 12 January 2004 23:20 (twenty-one years ago)

also i'm getting lots of stuff in german and odd things including the phrase EUR1.99 per min...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Monday, 12 January 2004 23:21 (twenty-one years ago)

ok IDIOT steve, it's working now, dunno what was going on there...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Monday, 12 January 2004 23:24 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

not working 4 me

http://www.remmelt.com/slskboard/status.php

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Sunday, 22 February 2004 06:40 (twenty-one years ago)

server is down. :(

― Dan I., Sunday, 22 February 2004 07:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Back on again! Ha ha ha!

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Sunday, 22 February 2004 10:44 (twenty-one years ago)

@CarsmileSteve

>also i'm getting lots of stuff in german and odd things including the
>phrase EUR1.99 per min..."

did you download that client from www.slsk.org ? this is a *fake* soulseek client, a dialer. remove it.

be shure to get the original soulseek client from
http://www.slsknet.org/

― eleki-san (eleki-san), Sunday, 22 February 2004 16:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I finally got fink installed on my Mac, and everything works, but half the time it won't let me browse another user's files or get their info. It works on some people, but not on others.

Is that just a fink glitch?

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Friday, 5 March 2004 21:06 (twenty-one years ago)

That happened to me for a while Milo, but it seemed to calm down. Keep trying and make sure you have the latest versions of everything.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 5 March 2004 21:41 (twenty-one years ago)

New slsk test versio released today (154), go to http://www.slsk.blogspot.com/ for details. Such goodness such as being able to search the files of people in rooms, and being able to save comments about people in your userlist for futire reference.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Friday, 5 March 2004 22:55 (twenty-one years ago)

sometimes you can't browse folx. i'm told that it depends on their firewall, so there's naught that you can do...

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 5 March 2004 23:31 (twenty-one years ago)

If you run XP its the built in firewall. It needs disabled.
Someone told how to do that ina previous slsk thread in the past week.

― Rock Bastard, Saturday, 6 March 2004 03:18 (twenty-one years ago)

It is happening again.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Saturday, 6 March 2004 07:00 (twenty-one years ago)

the user list comment is great. i can put notes to myself about things i want,if it was a fast d/l,ect.

― william (william), Saturday, 6 March 2004 08:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I got the new version. Is it down for everybody?

― Seth, Saturday, 6 March 2004 10:21 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Saturday, 6 March 2004 10:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Re finding that people can't browse your files, I found this recently and meant to post it here:

http://testic.demon.co.uk/slsktest/

Very useful for testing whether your port 2234 is open.

Also

http://testic.demon.co.uk/slsk-howto/

has some instructions on how to configure certain routers.

But if you're behind a firewall you don't control, I guess there's not much you can do.

― Snnap Dragon (snnap dragon), Saturday, 6 March 2004 11:37 (twenty-one years ago)

the new version is fantastic... genuinely useful new features.

― toby (tsg20), Saturday, 6 March 2004 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

eight months pass...

Mine has suddenly given up the ghost - it started off by hanging at the 'scanning shared folders' point and now appears not to connect at all. Uninstalling and reinstalling doesn't work, and now I've lost my lovely user list as well :(

Anyone else experiencing problems?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Saturday, 27 November 2004 16:09 (twenty years ago)

it started off by hanging at the 'scanning shared folders' point

I find that when I add a whole load of new mp3s to my shared folder, the next time I restart soulseek it might take five to ten minutes to rescan everything and, quaintly, it doesn't show you that it's doing anything while it's doing it, not even the little bar at the bottom.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Saturday, 27 November 2004 16:15 (twenty years ago)

eleven months pass...

so did they kill it? or is it temporary?

― kyle (akmonday), Saturday, 5 November 2005 00:33 (nineteen years ago)

the website wont work either.

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Saturday, 5 November 2005 00:53 (nineteen years ago)

that's why I'm wondering if this is more than just a regular outage. oh well we'll see

― kyle (akmonday), Saturday, 5 November 2005 01:07 (nineteen years ago)

It was working as recently as 2 hours ago.

― Stuck to a Seat in the New Beverly (Bent Over at the Arclight), Saturday, 5 November 2005 01:24 (nineteen years ago)

Just keep checking http://www.remmelt.com/slskboard/status.php

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Saturday, 5 November 2005 01:27 (nineteen years ago)

it's working right now. lots of people in the ilm room.

― W i l l (common_person), Saturday, 5 November 2005 01:28 (nineteen years ago)

ok i take it back. my computer just seems to think it's working, but when i try to do something (dl, browse files, search, join a room), nothing happens.

― W i l l (common_person), Saturday, 5 November 2005 01:33 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, it's been down all day. I was forced to use LimeWire for my incredibly urgent download needs. Maybe time to jump ship. Has everyone gone over to Oink (or wherever) yet?

― Fun Hater (reciprocitay), Saturday, 5 November 2005 02:15 (nineteen years ago)

I thought there was a big rumour about three weeks ago that slsk had been served papers along with some other systems. what happened with that?

― kyle (akmonday), Saturday, 5 November 2005 02:29 (nineteen years ago)

Server says it's running now

― van igloo (van smack), Saturday, 5 November 2005 02:35 (nineteen years ago)

It' up

― BeeOK (boo radley), Saturday, 5 November 2005 02:39 (nineteen years ago)

I thought there was a big rumour about three weeks ago that slsk had been served papers along with some other systems. what happened with that?

5l5k was not one of those who were served papers

― BeeOK (boo radley), Saturday, 5 November 2005 02:42 (nineteen years ago)

scary couple of hours.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Saturday, 5 November 2005 02:58 (nineteen years ago)

I got on and 2 mins later it's down again. I hope its only for a few mins. I hadn't even been able to find stuff to queue yet before I went back to bed.

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Saturday, 5 November 2005 06:52 (nineteen years ago)

two years pass...

so... without bothering to tell anyone or post about it on their website, apparently we're all supposed to switch to the "New Server" version?

― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Monday, 7 July 2008 04:18 (sixteen years ago)

you have to switch to the new version, but after you upgrade restart your pc, and the old version should also work side by side with the new one

― Zeno, Monday, 7 July 2008 04:21 (sixteen years ago)

okay, it does and that makes even less sense. split your users between two servers that don't communicate.

― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Monday, 7 July 2008 04:56 (sixteen years ago)

they want everyone to switch to the new version but till everyone will, they keep both servers up, cause the new one has less users, still.
after most people will switch theyll probably cancel the old version.
that make sense to me.

― Zeno, Monday, 7 July 2008 05:56 (sixteen years ago)

six years pass...

slsk pretty much doesn't work with Win 8.1 does it
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

― rip van wanko, Friday, 13 February 2015 03:21 (ten years ago)

soulseekqt build 2014.6.15 works for me

― adam, Friday, 13 February 2015 03:28 (ten years ago)

it does with mine though i havent used it in months.

― Eric Burdon & War, On Drugs (Cosmic Slop), Friday, 13 February 2015 03:28 (ten years ago)

im using it right now

― adam, Friday, 13 February 2015 03:28 (ten years ago)

oh it's AVG that's causing the problem, n/m

― rip van wanko, Friday, 13 February 2015 03:38 (ten years ago)

my slsk program vanished, so I downloaded it again, and got the warning about AVG, but it's worked fine for me so far

― Dr X O'Skeleton, Friday, 13 February 2015 17:54 (ten years ago)

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