soulseek

so glad this is still around

Spotify has reduced my usage significantly but it's still handy indeed.

I basically use slsk these days for individual tracks and when I see a cool album on a blog somewhere with a dead d/l link.

It's still very handy for seeking out rarities, I think.

still pretty good for dance 12"s

is the mac version still rubbish?

every cool person i know gets all the idm, microhouse and grime mp3s they need in primo 160kb/s from slsk these days, dont know why l4m0rz still actually buy music IMHOhttp://l.yimg.com/lo/api/res/1.2/_qIwROO2K4kFM.sCuxDb2Q--/YXBwaWQ9bWtihttp://www.5foq.com/vb/images/Smils%20For%205foq/rolleyes.gif

the mac version is now fantastic

TIP

soulseekqt

hooray!

ya i'm all over this add me i have 2 accounts for my laptop (roiheenok) and pc (flopson)

I have been using it on and off since early high school!

can you still use slsk (and get away with it) if you're in the USA? I've downloaded practically nothing since 5 strikes took effect.

soulseekqt

requires snow leopard (10.6 or up) : /

do you know of anyone who has ever gotten a strike?

felt "safe" because my isp isnt on the "list"

I usually have an ILX room up if I'm online (elvis_telecom)

still going strong

Here here
Just used it yesterday

First rule of slsk, don't talk about slsk.

do you know of anyone who has ever gotten a strike?
― flopson, Monday, 22 July 2013 22:20 (2 years ago) Permalink

That's the thing--it's been going long enough that it can't possibly be a secret at this point. The agencies that monitor this stuff, haven't they decided that, for whatever reason (primarily music rather than films?), soulseek just isn't worth bothering about? I only use it for occasional songs now, but it does come in handy at times.

second rule.

The agencies that monitor this stuff, haven't they decided that, for whatever reason (primarily music rather than films?), soulseek just isn't worth bothering about?

I think this must be the case. I remember a few years ago the search results for major label releases used to be swamped with obviously fake users, but that doesn't seem to happen any more.

man, i used to love SOULSEEX on os x before the lion update a few years ago. once you got used to it, it made the most sense of any version of slsk. it was better than the windows client. people used to complain that it used too many windows, but i always felt like its heavy window usage was a virtue - it felt like it kept keeping multiple chatrooms/user messages/user shares/downloads etc. well organized, and, because i had exposé set up with hot corners, i always kind of had fun switching windows.

such fond memories of SOULSEEX - browsing through user shares and randomly chatting with people played a major part in my formative music exploration in my late teens/early twenties.

those days are gone, though. ah, memories. i just have the regular mac client now + it looks exactly like the windows version = lame.
i never did bother with nicotine on os x, by the way. i was all about SOULSEEX, all about ssX.

anyway, how long ago was it? seven, maybe eight years ago, that the main port number changed, and many, many people didn't update their client/port number and just assumed slsk went to shit and abandoned it? yeah, what a shame. i updated my shit, at the time, and although slsk's been a little different since then, it never really stopped being COMPLETELY AWESOME for me. it's still GREBT for all sorts of oddities and obscurities, and, albums, too...

ah, the SOULSEEX days on os x. what a time to be alive. good times, good times.

there's too many slsk threads for me to find the most recently bumped one, but so i got a record there the other day and when i went to play it whoever encoded the mp3s put a naked picture of (presumably) himself as the album art. two things surprising about this. first is that i haven't run across it before, because there are some skeevy people on the internet, and second is that i really can't imagine anybody else on earth giving a shit about this record. if you're an exhibitionist and want people to look at pictures of your cock, why the hell would you embed them in a long-out-of-print compilation of outtakes by bands like "touch" and "stray dog"?

you could always msg them and ask!

i thought about it but i'm already married and honestly he wasn't much to look at naked.

also, he's not even online! it took me three weeks to download the damn album because he's never online!

Maybe all his files are encoded that way, not just the album you downloaded.

Still extremely useful to me around year-end time.

Well, it's not called "Buried Treasures" for nothing!

goddamn your locked files sir

Yeah, what's up with that?

it brings the true free-leeching spirit of SLSK into disrepute, stingy arsey bastards!

So annoying, as are those tl/dr scripts full of daft rules that pop up on occasion

anyone who uses that auto message for anything other than 'if you can't download try browsing my files first' is a grade-a prick

absolute bell ends.

'TRADE ONLY' – go fuck yourself, buddy.

just want to say bison2, harlemjazz and murdercitydevil - these are what I call proper SLSK'ers. lol I feel like I know them, but have never had any interactions with them.

Amen to that.

my hero = soulvent

Bless all the Japanese music enthusiasts on there, so much amazing stuff I've found.

Can only otm that. My obsession with Japanese music has been fueled profoundly by slsk. I wouldn't know where else to find stuff like that.

Not being able to wishlist an item + "flac" because it will just bring up the singular padlock cunt who has it (and is always online) is excruciating

can't you ignore that user? or does that do something else?

murdercitydevil

top bloke, never spoke a word to him tho

rn I'm trying to find the Asper Bothrops EP and there are two padlock fuckers with it in wav format, it's torture

First seven years I was using VPNs it was because that's the only way to access the western internet from China, it just became a habit, couldn't bring myself to torrent or fileshare without it.

http://imgur.com/a/aQe4Jhc.jpg

all hail the hardcorest slsker in town

http://i.imgur.com/vzMSlH9.jpeg

apologies for sharing a giant image of my dirty tennis hat

Probably wanna wash that hat

in my defense it had just been used

I love ILX because we can steadfastly hold onto lore like this (and slsk) for 20+ years

I've managed to maintain a healthy ratio on private trackers for years without a seedbox. You just need to upload stuff, fill requests for bounty, seed 24/7 and be selective in what you download. It's not that hard, really.

OTOH, if you're on Karagarga you can do what I do and look at whatever is up on free-leech. That 8GB download of something unexpected that someone went to all the trouble of handcrafting english subtitles to might be really good - as well as good for yr ratio.

I mean, right now there's a trio of Von Sternberg silents that will improve your life and your KG ratio - get on it!

Great hat. new Zing logo

Yeah I'm on KG as well, great resource and very easy to maintain ratio.

I think we're at the stage where stuff is just permanently disappearing from the internet, particularly as certain users leave soulseek it feels like there's just stuff you can't get anymore, maybe not everything deserves to live forever but I do get kind of a lonely feeling now listening to something that just doesn't exist online anywhere anymore

KG is the most valuable resource for arthouse and obscure film anywhere. But the same applies to red for music, it has an archival function which slsk is never going to be able to live up to.

I have a few hundred 7" singles I bought in the mid-late 90s and a significant amount are not to be found anywhere, not slsk, not youtube, not spotify, not torrent sites, certainly not commercially available. Even The Yummy Fur's album Night Club, which was in the Melody Maker's top 20 albums of 1996, is only to be found on slsk.

It's on the private tracker of which I'm a member (as are Sexy World and Male Shadow at Three O'Clock)

honestly the technical speak about torrenting and trackers and etc is most of what turns me off. i know that’s an unpopular opinion here, but i want to download music, not learn a bunch of technical speak in order to download music.

i open slsk, i search, and then i can pick what suits my needs. it’s easy and fast enough for me.

I don't think that's an unpopular opinion on this thread

all seekers welcome

sweatin’ to the ‘seek

Did I mention I'm on a *private* tracker?

(I'm only teasing. Mostly.)

havent bothered with private tracker world since what.cd went under. anyone got a spare KG invite? sounds interesting. will seed on NAS keep that ratio sterling yeeeaaaaa

o ya? i will have to look into that for my NAS

I use this to run Soulseek on my Synology NAS: https://github.com/realies/soulseek-docker

_Just be a nerd like me and keep a small NAS running at home 24/7 for torrents, it’s handy for a load of other thing too. I also run Soulseek on it in a Docker container which also runs 24/7._


This may be veering off-topic, but does anyone know a good beginner resource on this kind of stuff? I'm thinking about moving my plex stuff from my gaming PC to a dedicated, always-on mini PC so that my partner can watch stuff without having me be home to log in (an NAS seems a bit overkill for my needs, especially price-wise) but don't know the basics such as getting new content onto that remote PC's external drive, or anything about linux.

Just had a very weird thing where I was d/l a tv show and got a 'banned' response followed by a one word message from the user naming a city fairly close by to me. Something I need to act on or keep my head down for a bit?

were you using a vpn?

It's on the to-do list! So, no.

I guess a good spur to get my shit together.

lol what

was it guitarlover59?

I felt bad for a slsk user from Georgia (the country) who was downloading loads off me with an impossibly slow, nought point something mbps internet connection. And they messaged me thanks for letting them queue up so much stuff (that would take them days to dl in total), and I was welcome to help myself to their folder.

I got a follow-up message: 'let me guess a mac-using fa**ot from the UK?' A real charmer!

what were you downloading? lol I know it wasn't a Ted Nugent mega-folder

Lol.
An episode of Slow Horses! All seemed fairly benign; can't work out what pissed them off so much!

some people just want to be dicks

Aye.

Ive been a devoted slsk user for decades and I dont think I’ve ever once sent anybody a message, have never once been tempted to do so. But think i’m gonna take a lesson from calzino’s Georgian friend and increase the positivity by throwing a few thank you’s around, many users have enriched my life a great deal

one word message from the user naming a city fairly close by to me

they probably just got this from your ip, though i've no idea what's with the bizarre hostility

I often compliment sharers on their taste or thank them for making something available.

Same here. Especially if it's on the harder-to-find side.

An episode of Slow Horses! All seemed fairly benign; can't work out what pissed them off so much!

i'm guessing they didn't want their upload slots getting clogged by large video transfers. why they were shared in the first place is anybody's guess

Yeah, this is what I figured, and I had the same question about why they were sharing at all. Eh.

they probably just have a general piracy folder and can't be arsed to limit the soulseek directory to just music

for video files you're better off t0rr3nting anyway

i get my videos off slsk because i'm less likely to get a copyright hit

hi i'm on my laptop, but normally I am uploading 16tb worth of stuff from my server

"President Zelenskyy" currently hitting me up for cash on slsk.

seems legit. or don't you want to fund russian resistance with cash and terribly named folders of music lists.

It's important that he thanks you for the downloads.

The extra y is for sayvings.

that’s actually how his name is spelled?

Haha, I noticed I got this one too!

someone who appears to have essentially everything frank zappa ever recorded anywhere, in multiple pressings/formats, is now downloading rautavaara concertos from me <3