TS: SLSK vs LimeWire

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taboo.. i know

― ZionTrain (ZionTrain), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 21:58 (twenty years ago)

mods, please close thread.

― Michael Burble, Wednesday, 13 July 2005 22:00 (twenty years ago)

I like LimeWire and use it all the time. Besides the fact that I couldn't figure out how to install Slsk on my Mac (I know, I know, there are ways), I've never really felt like I was missing out on that much. But then again I prefer not having complete access to the universe sometimes.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 22:03 (twenty years ago)

slsk doesnt crash my computer like limewire does, so SLSK wins

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 22:28 (twenty years ago)

slsk

Until it gets shut down. Pitchfork using "soulseeked" as a term to describe mp3 downloading on the front page hardly helps much.

― fandango (fandango), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 22:35 (twenty years ago)

slsk for electronic music + goggle eyed amazement at viewing the ridiculously huge personal libraries & uber-exotic tastes of some people on there that I'll never even get close to emulating.

― fandango (fandango), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 22:37 (twenty years ago)

5l5k = classic....i quite often mill through folders/files of those i download from and see what other gems await my discovery.

...i will add though that since filesharing ,my cd purchases have actually gone way up....quite the opposite of the riaa claims. others i have mentioned this to claim the same. the files shared just help me eliminate the [many] bad mistakes i have made in the past.

― william (william), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 22:56 (twenty years ago)

why is that taboo to talk about?

soulseek 100%

― shh! (wide-eyed), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 23:44 (twenty years ago)

For mac users who don't want to go through the nightmare of installing X10/Developer Tools/Nicotine:

http://chris.schleifer.net/ssX/

Seems to work great, though I'm not a big fan of the fancy multi-window GUI.

― schwantz, Wednesday, 13 July 2005 23:59 (twenty years ago)

since the explosion of bittorrent i find myself using SLSK less and less...

Limewire sucks.

― Jack Battery-Pack (Jack Battery-Pack), Thursday, 14 July 2005 04:23 (twenty years ago)

I think for the real music geek you should help spread the love through slsk. It is the best site there is at this moment and has been that way for a little while now.

I’m getting a new computer next month and will be putting up my insane CD singles collection than.

― BeeOK (boo radley), Thursday, 14 July 2005 05:25 (twenty years ago)

Slsk for rare stuff (because there's much, much more of it), Limewire for popular stuff (because it's much, much quicker). But I have to say that I'm 100% Limewire these days. I like the multi-user Gnutella protocol, and I like never being stuck in a queue.

The biggest enduring mis-conception about Limewire is that it contains spyware. The spyware was ditched from the product well over a year ago.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Thursday, 14 July 2005 06:52 (twenty years ago)

Slsk best feature is that it's a community. I LOVe the fact that it crashing, it makes it a bit like a women…

― BeeOK (boo radley), Thursday, 14 July 2005 07:11 (twenty years ago)

slsk, though there aren't a lot of things more ridiculous than the "indie chatroom".

― Jamey Lewis (Jameys Burning), Friday, 15 July 2005 01:38 (twenty years ago)

Slsk best feature is that it's a community. I LOVe the fact that it crashing, it makes it a bit like a women…

Umm...

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Friday, 15 July 2005 04:11 (twenty years ago)

People have waaaay better music on SLSK. People feel comfortable leaving it on all the time because it isnt a pig.

― Jon, remind me again why you haven't drowned in your own vomit (ex machina), Friday, 15 July 2005 04:14 (twenty years ago)

how do you join soulseek?.. i have tried to download it and ended up downloading limewire. v annoying. the slsk website seems to be for upgrading not installing..

― jeff goldsbury, Monday, 25 July 2005 01:14 (twenty years ago)

try download slsk.exe from Kazaa or Limewire

― helpful hand, Monday, 25 July 2005 01:35 (twenty years ago)

For the past few months slsk has had alot of problems. I'm going to try Limewire.

― Some Guy, Monday, 25 July 2005 03:05 (twenty years ago)

Just download the software from the site, jeff :

http://www.slsknet.org/download.html

it talks about upgrading but I'm pretty sure that the exe just installs (or reinstalls if you've already got it)

― Some Guy, Monday, 25 July 2005 03:12 (twenty years ago)

I recently refreshed my memory of LW, and was instantly reminded of why 5L5K seemed such a godsend the first time around; namely the stuff BeeOK mentioned, with the possible exception of the femininity.

― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Monday, 25 July 2005 10:18 (twenty years ago)

Limewire is anonymous leeching. I love it for that.

I like the idea of Bit Torrent but have yet to get it to work properly on a Mac.

― ?ÎÓDDDJHKHVBNM (eman), Monday, 25 July 2005 11:02 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

I've used both, and definitley am sticking with LimeWire. Soulseek may get alot more Search results, but it rarely finishes a download, I prefer my 1Mb line to be used properly, like LimeWire does. Also LimeWire has alot more of selection than alot of people think.

I think the highest transfer rate I got on Soulseek was about 30Kbps, whilst with LimeWire I've had about 160Kbps.

― Space Ghost Steve, Tuesday, 9 August 2005 12:27 (twenty years ago)

limewire, simply because acquisition on the mac is the best piece of software ever, and SSX suxxx. i haven't tried nicotine, and nor can i be arsed to. there's a beautiful simplicity to acquisition, and it does everything i might reasonably want it to.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 12:40 (twenty years ago)

SSX suxxx

how so?

― fe zaffe (fezaffe), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 12:42 (twenty years ago)

Yep. Soulseek sucks - NO ONE USE IT EVER!

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 12:42 (twenty years ago)

I wouldn't bother with anything except eMule

― Michael Beynon, Tuesday, 9 August 2005 12:43 (twenty years ago)

how so?

all those bloody windows ... eew. but then i've never used the original soulseek app on windows etc, so it could just be a very, very faithful copy.

it works fine, yes. but acquisition is much simpler and, IMHO, more efficient.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 12:50 (twenty years ago)

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