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God I miss it.
It's a heap of shit now.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Friday, 12 November 2004 23:02 (twenty-one years ago)

― Nestor Smegma, Friday, 12 November 2004 23:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Audiogalaxy changed my life, no joke.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 12 November 2004 23:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I liked AG a lot, was sad to see it go. There's a mix-disc in my collection called "The Last Days of Audiogalaxy". But, you know, once you've Soulsought, you'll never go back.

― briania (briania), Friday, 12 November 2004 23:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Would queue up a bunch of songs right before bed, just to wake up to oh so many indie possibilities. sigh.

― bnw (bnw), Friday, 12 November 2004 23:58 (twenty-one years ago)

― Richard C (avoid80), Saturday, 13 November 2004 00:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I heart 2002. AudioGalaxy was great. Shame it died just a couple of months after I discovered it.

― Richard C (avoid80), Saturday, 13 November 2004 00:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh come the fuck on! SLSK is miles better than AudioGalaxy ever was!!

― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, 13 November 2004 00:08 (twenty-one years ago)

::sigh::

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Saturday, 13 November 2004 00:08 (twenty-one years ago)

SLSK doesn't work for me

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 13 November 2004 00:09 (twenty-one years ago)

The greatest thing about AG was looking up songs on your work computer and queuing them in the Satellite, where they'd be waiting for you on your home computer at the end of the day.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Saturday, 13 November 2004 00:10 (twenty-one years ago)

My favorite thing about AG was that the results for an artist search were usually that artist's most popular track.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Saturday, 13 November 2004 00:11 (twenty-one years ago)

johnny fever otm! i definitely prefer slsk by a mile now but i really really miss that component of audiogalaxy

― cinniblount (James Blount), Saturday, 13 November 2004 00:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I used to download built to spill songs back in my old office at my college job. memories..

― still bevens (bscrubbins), Saturday, 13 November 2004 00:13 (twenty-one years ago)

my life too curtis. no joke here either.

― piscesboy, Saturday, 13 November 2004 00:37 (twenty-one years ago)

The greatest thing about AG was looking up songs on your work computer and queuing them in the Satellite, where they'd be waiting for you on your home computer at the end of the day.
-- Johnny Fever (--...), November 13th, 2004.
johnny fever otm! i definitely prefer slsk by a mile now but i really really miss that component of audiogalaxy
-- cinniblount (littlejohnnyjewe...), November 13th, 2004
I've often wondered why noone built/coded a plugin to provide this functionality for slsk? This is the one thing that drives me nuts- little pieces of paper with song titles or bands on them from work, or my scribbling into my PDA onto an ever-increasing list called "d/l".......

― mclaugh (mclaugh), Saturday, 13 November 2004 00:41 (twenty-one years ago)

e-mail your heart!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 13 November 2004 00:42 (twenty-one years ago)

this is all so otm it's *untrue* !!! pieces of paper in work???
hey i thought that was just me. oh dear!

yeah why didnt slsk go that same way. just the idea of a roving from-work access satelite...(sigh) its too much.

― piscesboy, Saturday, 13 November 2004 01:11 (twenty-one years ago)

the easy song-oriented approach of Audiogalaxy seems so much of a loss now in light of the iPod.. it would have been perfectly suited for it.

but damn.. to answer the thread's question, no, I had completely forgotten about it, even considering how much I valued it back in the day.

― bill neil (inabillity), Saturday, 13 November 2004 01:37 (twenty-one years ago)

soulseek isn't a patch on audiogalaxy

― Head the Ball, Monday, 15 November 2004 13:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm so much more album-oriented because of slsk. It seems like in the Audiogalaxy days my taste was much more diverse/interesting and I could find anything I was waiting for. In short, it changed the way I listen to music => my life.

Also, I liked how you didn't have to queue up a song multiple times just because certain users are bastards.

― Sonny, Ah!!1 (Sonny A.), Monday, 15 November 2004 14:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah yes. Audiogalaxy. One day, it should return to compete with Napster again.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 15 November 2004 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Just looked. It is still there. Just as a front end for Rhapsody. Sad.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 15 November 2004 14:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Not a day goes by where I don't get an email from my dad about how much he misses Audiogalaxy. He was devatasted when it shut down.

― Patrick Allan (adr), Monday, 15 November 2004 15:39 (twenty-one years ago)

AG was fucking great, especially in those earlyish days of the Great Microhouse Explosion.

― adam (adam), Monday, 15 November 2004 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)

You young turks, I remember when AG was just a search engine for empeefree FTPs.

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Monday, 15 November 2004 17:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I liked audiogalaxy a lot.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 15 November 2004 17:42 (twenty-one years ago)

You young turks, I remember when AG was just a search engine for empeefree FTPs.

Yeah, I do too. Even then, it was miles ahead of any other resource.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Monday, 15 November 2004 17:57 (twenty-one years ago)

SLSK is great for finding albums, but Audiogalaxy was unbeatable for searching for rare stuff.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 15 November 2004 23:33 (twenty-one years ago)

My prime Audiogalaxy moment was searching for a hometown band (from Murfreesboro Tennessee) that I used to like six years earlier that had disbanded three years ago.
Audiogalaxy had everything. Plus bootlegs.
What I miss most are the artist messageboards where you can read what the fans have to say about each artist. It was like ILM meets Soulseek. Seek is pretty hawt but the community atmosphere is not really a drawing point.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 01:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Wait, Forksclovetofu! You're in/from Murfreesboro?

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 01:45 (twenty-one years ago)

From Murfreesboro. Went to MTSU back in the pre-2000's.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 01:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah, okay. I thought maybe I had a local ILMer.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 01:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry. I really dislike that place, though. Does that count?

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 02:17 (twenty-one years ago)

audiogalaxy was SO sloppy. slsk 4 life bitches.

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 02:22 (twenty-one years ago)

The longer I use Soul Seek, the more I feel reassured that there are people in the world with similar tastes to mine.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 03:21 (twenty-one years ago)

yes, it is true, you are not unique!

― cutty (mcutt), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 03:44 (twenty-one years ago)

i loved AG. that's how i found out about the Fizzbombs.

― kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 16 November 2004 04:21 (twenty-one years ago)

five months pass...

The greatest thing about AG was looking up songs on your work computer and queuing them in the Satellite, where they'd be waiting for you on your home computer at the end of the day.

-- Johnny Fever (--...), November 13th, 2004.

Yes!

And if someone went offline it would start elsewhere.
Speeds were much faster too.

― arachnoid, Monday, 9 May 2005 18:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I also remember sometimes I had queued a really rare track. I could wait for months, and suddenly, while looking through my mods directory, there it was!

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 9 May 2005 18:21 (twenty-one years ago)

So, is there a reason that "remote queue" function isn't on slsk?

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 01:01 (twenty-one years ago)

AG was the bomb. loved the remote queueing, and it actually WORKED, all the time. which is a hell of a lot more than i can say for soulseek...

― chris andrews (fraew), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 01:23 (twenty-one years ago)

[[[slsk 4 life bitches.]]]

Chances are, "life" is about to end...

I had a few groups on slsk that led to the formation of ElectroDiscoPunks. I'm still cataloggin music I got sent to me via AG groups back in 2002.

― PappaWheelie (PappaWheelie), Tuesday, 10 May 2005 01:35 (twenty-one years ago)

four years pass...

i still miss u boo
http://reviews.cnet.com/1990-6450_7-5021169-1.html
^remember this monday so clearly

― im a fucking unicorn you douchebags (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 4 August 2009 04:49 (sixteen years ago)

slsk is a shadow of what it was too. sadness.

― sciolism, Tuesday, 4 August 2009 05:09 (sixteen years ago)

slsk is still really useful for individual tracks, and some vinyl rips... but I can't remember the last new-ish album I got from there.

― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 4 August 2009 05:56 (sixteen years ago)

Audiogalaxy was much cooler though, got to agree with that. It seemed sort of mysterious to me back then!

― Ludo, Tuesday, 4 August 2009 09:31 (sixteen years ago)

slsk still goin great guns for me.

― ledge, Tuesday, 4 August 2009 09:44 (sixteen years ago)

yeah same here, just gotta update

― unban dictionary (blueski), Tuesday, 4 August 2009 09:48 (sixteen years ago)

I'm a complete idiot but it took my dad to teach me how to find albums to download. "Just google the album and add blogspot" Christ. But I'm happy cause I can't seem to find much on SLSK. :-(

― Nathalie (stevienixed), Tuesday, 4 August 2009 09:52 (sixteen years ago)

Are you on the slsk new server, Nathalie ? Cause I can find about everything i want on it... Even the very rare polish new-wave records I wanted were shared by a few users.

― J4mi3 H4rl3y (Snowballing), Tuesday, 4 August 2009 10:05 (sixteen years ago)

Uh, no, don't think so. Also, I don't offer much (as I have practically all my music on another comp). :-)

― Nathalie (stevienixed), Tuesday, 4 August 2009 10:27 (sixteen years ago)

dont get the nostalgia unless its for the groups. You couldn't download albums(and if someone set a prog up it always got shut down and it still had the following problems), you couldn't guarantee getting a studio version being what you downloaded, you got a different bitrate for each song and sometimes it was in 96. wtf would encode at 96???? fuck nostalgia. Soulseek completely pissed over audiogalaxy.

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 4 August 2009 12:41 (sixteen years ago)

for contemporary tracks, it's "google the song and artist name and add sharebee"

― im a fucking unicorn you douchebags (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 4 August 2009 13:54 (sixteen years ago)

I spent like a week waiting for some mp3s by a band called Pure Morning to crawl down the audiotubes even though it warned me it would be slow and that they were encoded below 128kbps, only to find that they were mislabelled b-sides to the Placebo single of the same name. And I hated Placebo. So, dud.

If you're using Windows slsk and on the new server, make sure you have the newest version, because I gather they found a potentially nasty security hole in the older ones.

― a passing spacecadet, Tuesday, 4 August 2009 14:08 (sixteen years ago)

(Pure Morning were an early incarnation of Clinic who sounded like a whiny Britisher Pavement, so I understand that most people here would think that not getting these tracks would be a blessed relief, but unexpected 96kbps Brian Molko is not a nice thing to hear)

― a passing spacecadet, Tuesday, 4 August 2009 14:10 (sixteen years ago)

dont let ned see you typing that

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 4 August 2009 14:38 (sixteen years ago)

do you still need pure morning tracks? i have a couple of their singles

― more posts that will never be released (electricsound), Wednesday, 5 August 2009 00:43 (sixteen years ago)

AG was the easiest to use filesharing service out there.
Sadly it was also the easiest to sue.

― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 01:20 (sixteen years ago)

The greatest thing about AG was looking up songs on your work computer and queuing them in the Satellite, where they'd be waiting for you on your home computer at the end of the day.

For me, it was looking up some ultra rare track that I had been looking for for ages hoping for it to re-emerge some time or other, and then discover it finally sitting in my home computer 2 weeks later ;)

― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 01:22 (sixteen years ago)

I never got the cult around AG, as mentionned upthread slsk (and even Napster if you wanna get nostalgic) >>>> AG. Also, I don't understand people complaining about new slsk. For me it works as good as it ever did.

― Gigolo Grasiento (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 5 August 2009 07:35 (sixteen years ago)

They all had their advantages. Napster were probably - at its biggest - bigger than anything else. Audiogalaxy had the advantage that you could ask it to download something that wasn't online at the time (although that advantage is also in torrent technology and Edonkey today). As for Soulseek, the social networking with chatrooms etc. is a great thing about that, plus its users are probably by average more into music than the others' users.

― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 20:19 (sixteen years ago)

Audiogalaxy was about community and permanent space for artist specific discussion and that's not happened since.

― im a fucking unicorn you douchebags (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 5 August 2009 21:42 (sixteen years ago)

One of my favorite songs I ever heard was a mislabeled Audiogalaxy song I got. Unfortunately I can't find this song anywhere - I'll have to search through old mix cds one of these days (if I still have some). I uploaded the song to ILX once but BIG HELP YOU ALL WERE at helping me figure out what song it is.

― CaptainLorax, Thursday, 6 August 2009 00:16 (sixteen years ago)

no offence

― CaptainLorax, Thursday, 6 August 2009 00:18 (sixteen years ago)

let's try again

― Gigolo Grasiento (baaderonixx), Thursday, 6 August 2009 07:45 (sixteen years ago)

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