soulseek

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

Can't believe I am still ssk-ing and ILX-ing fifteen years after I first started, someone help

man i would totally crowdfund a new soulseek app for mac. the options are dire. isoul was decent but stopped working for me like a year ago.

Can't believe I am still ssk-ing and ILX-ing fifteen years after I first started, someone help

Some addictions are worth indulging. Ride the dragon till the bitter end.

More than that even, I can't believe that they're still basically the same given how much the world (particularly the internet world) has changed in that time.

"TRADE ONLY - CHECK MY WISHLIST IN MY USER INFO BEFORE PM ME"

Fuck you, Scramouthca, fuck you

it's amazing these things are still the same. Mac version is fine, isn't it? I was using it a few months ago. Now using the Linux version. Seems same to me on all platforms.

I don't get the hoarders either. Maybe there's some people with too much money sunk into storage and high power/internet bills or something. Start going on a powertrip instead of just limiting the app's bandwidth.

The majority of people having a looser approach and looser collections are probably how it continues to get by. Well-curated torrent sites are just begging to be taken down

Had a fun exchange a few years back with some guy yelling at me that I had to be someone else that he had banned with a similar username

Well-curated torrent sites are just begging to be taken down

― maffew12, Wednesday, May 22, 2019 3:29 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Is this true though? Is hunting down private torrent sites still a thing? Seems the focus has shifted to the big free ones sharing the huge Hollywood trash. Those and stream rippers, apparently, according to TorrentFreak (which I visited just now for the first time in absolute ages, prompted by this revive).

Well they know better than me.

Regarding music specifically, streaming services make a lot more sense for most users than downloading MP3s. The heat has to be down to some degree. I pay for a service myself, and still buy physical releases, and Soulseek helps with things not easy to find any other way. I imagine this is a typical use case now? I'm glad it's surviving

I would think that is typical nowadays, yes (if only as it's my mode of music consumption, too). Slsk and some well-curated film trackers seem to still fly under the radar, fortunately.

Since waffles.ch (mainly stuck with it because of the community) died, this has been my thing. I came up in the Limewire / Kazaa / etc. period, so I was extremely skeptical when a friend was pushing it on me. Seemed archaic as hell.

His sell was "These are people who are serious about piracy and curation," and damn if that isn't the truth.

When Josh Fauver (formerly of Deerhunter) passed, a lot of the Army of Bad Luck (his record label) catalog went with him, and this is just about the only place you can find these things, legal or otherwise.

Seeing a bunch of replies on a Soulseek thread almost had me worried.

Denki Groove getting all of their music pulled from streaming services because one member failed a drug test is why I'll ride for MP3 collecting until I die

The biggest problem with Spotify, iTunes etc is the same as with Netflix, ie yes you can spend all your remaining days consuming what’s on it, but the vast majority of music worth hearing is not on it.

xp not familiar with Denki Groove but having just checked out the story can I say jesus fucking christ that's just about the most stupid thing I've read this year, and it's been quite a year, are they going to pull every other artist who's ever done drugs too?

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

#goals

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

― mookieproof

the best sort of pipeline

the thing about zappa-as-composer that bugs me is this idea that classical music starts with edgar varese and ends with frank zappa... i don't think zappa actually believed that (there's a live album of his with an excerpt from bartok's piano concert no. 3, which is what got me into bartok at the age of around 17), but it's easy to get that impression from him sometimes

Kate plz vote in my Nonesuch Explorer poll, see SNA, would love to hear yr thoughts

the spirit of the old internet lives

https://gizmodo.com/file-sharing-network-soulseek-has-been-flooded-with-ai-homer-simpson-cover-songs-2000725979

Now it's personal, Altman

*downloads five hours of Taj Mahal Travellers bootlegs*

*Homer Simpson voice starts*

"D'oh!"

i'll be honest with you i'm not sure if i could actually tell if the copy of Kaigal-ool Khovalyg's "Khovu kargyraa" i just downloaded is _actually_ an imitation of how Dan Castellaneta would sound were he to became a master of overtone singing

apologies to the guy who went to all the trouble to record and put that compilation together, i do appreciate the work you put into it and you absolutely deserve to be paid a living wage for the work you do. if it's any consolation i don't actually have the time to listen to the record in question or, like, a job for that matter. :(

worst file mislabelling experience i had was when i went to look for a copy of underworld (2003), a movie which i definitely legally own, for a movie night with friends only to find out that the file in question was actually some porn film. the thing that upset me most was that it was some boring vanilla bullshit. we wanted to see erotically lit latex vampire fetish action, not some white cis guy fucking some white cis girl in a well-lit room with boring camera angles. i'm fine with trolling, but i get pissy when the trolling in question is lazy, bad, and boring. i wanna try and listen to some bad bunny and on comes madonna asking me what the fuck i think i'm doing. that's high-class trolling.

homer simpson slop trolling is fine, i guess. it kinda reminds me when someone took gal agiese's lines from "magician lord" and dubbed over them with an ai imitation of lorenzo music doing a garfield voice. i get the concept (the voice actor for gal agiese in the original game sounds kinda like lorenzo music's garfield), but it wasn't a _good_ ai imitation of lorenzo music, which kind of spoils the effect.

Is there a way to request songs a la homer?

yeah now I want to hear him in Pearl Jam or Tool

you can request one here

https://homer-radio.vercel.app/

results have varied on the stuff I've heard so far, some of them sound funny on others it sounds like the AI is glitching out