how great is slsk?

two*

on bit torrent: download sparingly. don't download something you know you can get off of slsk or some place else later. just try to give back what you take. and, like i said, i can agree that some sites are a little too strict about their trackers. just take the time to figure out what you're doing though, and quit being babies about this. it could be worth it.

I guess I'll consider it, but only as a personal favor to you, andi.

jump on torrents that you know are going to be popular. jump on them right away, and keep seeding.

the record labels have started flooding soulseek with fake-shares recently. make a search for swizz beats's "it's me bitches" and you'll see what i mean. loads of users with similar sounding names (ciara5, digit56, mrgoogle8) share it but when you try downloading from them it says "awaiting user". fyi this only happens with searches on recent rap singles. i guess their trick is for all of their fake-shares to have real fast access-times/ping-times so that they end up in/clog up the search results before the "legit" shares show up. i kid you not.

That's been happening for about 3 years now. Not a recent development at all!

aha. it's pretty effective actually. though it's more of a nuisance than an actual roadblock.

Yeah it's usually fairly obvious which are the fakes, as you say the usernames always have the same format - a name and a number, and they usually have the same album multiple times with slightly different names to catch variations in spelling.

I've given up on slsk. o1nk works super fast for me, and my ratio's not a problem at all, I can't see why anyone would moan about it.

the ratio thing is lame, particularly on 01nk, since I dl mosly obscure or older stuff, which no-one ever wants to download, apparently. My ratios are crap even though I've been seeding dozens of things for a few weeks.

slsk: I've gotten banned recently for having "not interesting enough shares". uh, ok. the other really irritating thing about slsk: if you have your shares on a drive that you turn off at any point while slsk is running, it deletes your share preference w/out telling you. at some point I got banned repeatedly and didn't know why, and it turns out I had nothing shared. annoying. further, the interface for selecting shared folders is clunky (this is a windows OS limitation though). I don't want to recursively share my entire library, just certain things.

It's not a windows OS limitation, iirc you used to be select individual folders to share. I suspect (on no grounds whatsoever) that it was rewritten to encourage whole library sharing.

ssX is about a gazillion times better than the awful Windows client.

yeah. ssX.

does everyone use O1nk nowaways? i lost my account and never went back. is their site still atrocious?

d/l a track by a composer.

Talked about it a bit on a thread.

Turns out I d/l it off him!

audio galaxy r.i.p.

Audiogalaxy was the best, yea.

is nicotine still the best mac client for slsk?

ssx

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