Bless all the Japanese music enthusiasts on there, so much amazing stuff I've found.
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 10:28 (five years ago) link
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.
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 22 May 2019 10:50 (five years ago) link
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
― PaulTMA, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 12:01 (five years ago) link
can't you ignore that user? or does that do something else?
― StanM, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 12:08 (five years ago) link
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
― blood, loud screaming and nudity (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 22 May 2019 12:11 (five years ago) link
Can't believe I am still ssk-ing and ILX-ing fifteen years after I first started, someone help
― 5 favrite kind of animal. jaguar. giraffe. (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 22 May 2019 12:22 (five years ago) link
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.
― anza808, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 12:41 (five years ago) link
Some addictions are worth indulging. Ride the dragon till the bitter end.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 12:48 (five years ago) link
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.
― 5 favrite kind of animal. jaguar. giraffe. (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 22 May 2019 13:04 (five years ago) link
"TRADE ONLY - CHECK MY WISHLIST IN MY USER INFO BEFORE PM ME"
Fuck you, Scramouthca, fuck you
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 13:15 (five years ago) link
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
― maffew12, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 13:29 (five years ago) link
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
― maffew12, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 13:30 (five years ago) link
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).
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 22 May 2019 13:34 (five years ago) link
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
― maffew12, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 13:39 (five years ago) link
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.
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 22 May 2019 13:45 (five years ago) link
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.
― yeah but how, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 14:52 (five years ago) link
Seeing a bunch of replies on a Soulseek thread almost had me worried.
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 15:12 (five years ago) link
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
― frogbs, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 15:20 (five years ago) link
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.
― Siegbran, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 15:23 (five years ago) link
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?
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 22 May 2019 15:26 (five years ago) link
That is wild o_O
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 22 May 2019 15:35 (five years ago) link
― MarkoP
me too, i still try to be discreet about this shit because man slsk could go at anytime, fucking miracle that it's outlasted more or less everything worthwhile on the internet...
anyway, spotify isn't the celestial jukebox, and neither is youtube (and neither is slsk!). it's always going to be distributed to some extent.
― Flood-Resistant Mirror-Drilling Machine (rushomancy), Wednesday, 22 May 2019 15:36 (five years ago) link
I just checked and I seem to have two spare invites to JPopSuki if anyone wants them LBI, Frogbs?
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 16:09 (five years ago) link
Ohh that would be amazing!
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 22 May 2019 16:11 (five years ago) link
My mail address for ILM is ancient, so send a mail to: n a k a g i n c a p s u l e t o w e r @gmail.com and I'll hook you up.
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 16:17 (five years ago) link
<3 bison2
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 16:35 (five years ago) link
I am also still a soulseek user. like most, i buy a lot of music digitally and physically, though i've yet to fall into what i consider the trap of streaming services and will never, ever do so, so i have to supplement some of my *pretty exorbitant music spending* with DLs on ssk.
I often marvel that it's still around, too. Means I've been using it for longer than almost anything on the internet.
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Wednesday, 22 May 2019 16:44 (five years ago) link
― MarkoP, Wednesday, May 22, 2019 4:12 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol otm.
― cheese canopy (map), Wednesday, 22 May 2019 17:16 (five years ago) link
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?
also fair to say that anyone 'scandalized' by this likely doesn't understand rave culture, I mean come on
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ouftVtGWjY
― frogbs, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 17:25 (five years ago) link
Hey guys slsk is great but pipe down knaw mean?
― calstars, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 18:17 (five years ago) link
― frogbs
god if their music is pulled for any reason i'd think it would be for inducing epilepsy
― Flood-Resistant Mirror-Drilling Machine (rushomancy), Wednesday, 22 May 2019 18:58 (five years ago) link
apparently a lot of dr*g city artists have a small don't ask don't tell thing going where searches for them on slsk are blocked to help keep the enterprise going without fear of multiple lawsuits
― global tetrahedron, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 19:23 (five years ago) link
and ya since i got banned from oink this is my only source of mp3s. sorry for having a bad ratio my bros, my college throttled bandwidth :(
― global tetrahedron, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 19:24 (five years ago) link
these posts brought to you by 2007
hah add me to the murdercitydevil fans group
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 19:30 (five years ago) link
XXXXP - I noticed that 'beatles' in the search meets with a blank returns page.
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 19:38 (five years ago) link
there have been blocked search terms since at least 2005, and the same ways to get around them since then
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 22 May 2019 19:42 (five years ago) link
hah that dates back to the Napster days, I remember searching endlessly for stuff like "They May B Gaints"
― frogbs, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 19:46 (five years ago) link
search for album titles + part of artist name or song title and right click, that sort of thing
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 22 May 2019 19:53 (five years ago) link
I hated oink, such miserable pedantic twats on there with their crazy list of rules, and I could never get a decent ratio from china
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 22 May 2019 19:55 (five years ago) link
yes, they were fucking awful.
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Wednesday, 22 May 2019 20:37 (five years ago) link
they were BUT their selection was better than any other service I can think of including Apple Music/Spotify so whatever. if I'm gonna tolerate fascism in any form it might as well be on a torrent site
― frogbs, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 20:41 (five years ago) link
i hated teenage-elitist "scene" bullshit when i was 15 and calling bbses and i'm not any more taken with it in its current form
having a complete archive of all music ever recorded is of little use if nobody can fucking listen to it without jumping through more hoops than it takes to get a top-level security clearance
― Flood-Resistant Mirror-Drilling Machine (rushomancy), Wednesday, 22 May 2019 20:55 (five years ago) link
you just have to upload one perfect torrent and they leave you alone. it sucked because I had a lot of stuff to contribute but I didn't want to get a lifetime ban because I didn't post the correct serial number right away so I just kept it to myself
― frogbs, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 21:06 (five years ago) link
If you thought Oink was bad re: miserable twats, you should've seen what followed: what.cd. Sheesh, fascism indeed. Buying your way up to VIP+++ user and some shit.
It can still be done in a great way, like k4r4g4rg4 imo. If you go to their donation page it now simply says "we don't need any money right now, we're good".
― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 22 May 2019 21:25 (five years ago) link
i'm just way too old for all the vpn/ratio/whatever bullshit. but it's not simply a matter of convenience, these autodidacts who fancy themselves "archivists" and believe they're building some sort of fucking eternal historical monument are wrong, everything is impermanent. standards are fine, necessary even, but the main thing is to enjoy what you can, while you can. my "library" is a mess and i can't even fucking find stuff in it and most of the stuff in it i've forgotten is even in there and it's pretty wonderful. five clicks and i can get to "oh wow i have a vybz kartel remix in here, awesome, i totally forgot about this". i don't even fucking know who vybz kartel is. amnesia rules!
― Flood-Resistant Mirror-Drilling Machine (rushomancy), Wednesday, 22 May 2019 21:36 (five years ago) link
If you thought Oink was bad re: miserable twats, you should've seen what followed: what.cd.
yr absolutely correct. i was getting oink and what mixed up.
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Wednesday, 22 May 2019 21:55 (five years ago) link
lol. i thought you were just making this stuff up. I can remember Win MX though.
― calzino, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 22:03 (five years ago) link
ppl who don't rename folders titled cd1 ... cd2... etc can get fucked as well.
― calzino, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 22:09 (five years ago) link
I mean I do see why that stuff was necessary back then....back in the mid-00s the internet was full of bad transcodes, albums missing tracks, stuff that was tagged incorrectly, or not tagged at all. But it was crazy how they'd give you long bans and make you grovel just because you uploaded a torrent that was slightly incorrect. dudes were definitely on a power trip, right down to that pretentious message you'd get when you loaded up the page.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 22 May 2019 22:10 (five years ago) link
Yeah was just thinking that the other day like all similar apps went defunct over a decade ago right?? And yet this one still remains. I dunno what I’d do without it!
― frogbs, Thursday, 6 June 2024 01:05 (three hours ago) link
i stopped using it for several years and when i finally returned it felt like seeing an old friend who i hadn’t seen in years and picking up right where we left off
― donna rouge, Thursday, 6 June 2024 01:09 (three hours ago) link
time to learn how to torrent, guys― bored by endless ecstasy (anagram)
― bored by endless ecstasy (anagram)
slsk has outlasted torrenting for me
i regularly find stuff there that doesn't pop up on torrent unless you're on one of them fancy private trackers
― Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 6 June 2024 01:28 (three hours ago) link
rutracker fucking rules, it's the best for lossless music
if i had to choose 1 i'd choose slsk, but they're a tag team. better together
― Deflatormouse, Thursday, 6 June 2024 01:40 (two hours ago) link
what I love is finding movies and tv series on slsk that are on a faster connection that any torrent or nzb/usenet combo
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 6 June 2024 02:37 (two hours ago) link