soulseek

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 :(

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hah add me to the murdercitydevil fans group

XXXXP - I noticed that 'beatles' in the search meets with a blank returns page.

there have been blocked search terms since at least 2005, and the same ways to get around them since then

hah that dates back to the Napster days, I remember searching endlessly for stuff like "They May B Gaints"

search for album titles + part of artist name or song title and right click, that sort of thing

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

yes, they were fucking awful.

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

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

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

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".

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!

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.

lol. i thought you were just making this stuff up. I can remember Win MX though.

ppl who don't rename folders titled cd1 ... cd2... etc can get fucked as well.

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.

It turned fascist really fast, which shouldn't be surprising but it was staggering to see it unfold. What.cd was like the Stanford Prison Experiment of the torrent scene!

Oink introduced me to loads of good music though, I look back on those days with fondness, and the bust-up was a huge event - and also interesting: this network of music (lovers) you'd carefully crafted was just gone all of a sudden.

Shoutout to Audiogalaxy too.

I remember when you would check your PC in the morning and be thrilled that you were now up to 79% on that Avalanches Breezeblock you were downloading

lol - it is weird how nostalgia makes it seem thrilling, but i do have that same memory. i remember it taking half a day to download a 10-minute house track on my parents' dial-up. oh but we appreciated tunes back then - not like the youths of today.

obv joking but it does feel so different. all the bootlegged dj mixes too, like the first time you could suddenly hear loads of unofficial mixes and all that music from clubs around the world spreading faster and faster.

I have that same memory of it being thrilling - particularly with Audiogalaxy, which took days of my life watching green and red progress bars. The thing I remember about what.cd was daring to go on holiday and turning your PC off and coming back to find you'd been banned and your extended family murdered.

what ever happens to people who get busted for this stuff, like at Oink? is anyone doing hard time for torrents? or is he out like working community service A&R?

Paging modestmickey...

standards are fine, necessary even, but the main thing is to enjoy what you can, while you can.

that's my philosophy, marty

what ever happens to people who get busted for this stuff, like at Oink? is anyone doing hard time for torrents? or is he out like working community service A&R?

― maffew12, Thursday, May 23, 2019 2:01 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

They all got out pretty much ok

Wish I still had my soulseek shirt...wish I'd gotten shirts from all of them. Would love to rep an AudioGalaxy shirt.

getting frustrated at folks with locked files or trade only is p lol generally, like ppl can use a program any way they like, BUT: having found that there was a digital reissue of a CD I own that indexed hidden tracks and interludes which were combined on the original release, I went to upgrade my 2006 rip... and the one guy that has it keeps everyone queued to like 11,214 and sends messages telling you to sign up for his music-stealing website at $9 a month. fuck THAT guy.

What's the album?

Tiga's Sexor.

I think I've only been unable to find, like, limited-run vinyl releases by acts from my college town. It may take years of unyielding tenacity, but I believe I've eventually been able to track down everything else I've sought out. It's a little spooky, tbh.

The Wish List search has saved me on several occasions - often months (and sometimes years) after adding the search term.

yeah wish list is key

one weird thing I've noticed - sometimes it'll take months for something to pop up from my list but then suddenly other people sharing it will, and not always the same rip as you'd expect.

sic fwiw when I ripped my copy of Sexor I split the tracks with interludes/hidden tracks myself, I can put that up on slsk if you want

that's very kind of you, thanks!

does your ILX email work? not sure if I should post my username here? it's up anyway so searching might find it, it's in flac which might narrow it down

ilSexor

I believe I am getting it from you now! and I have installed a flac converter

yeah looks like it. that was the first time I've updated my shared files in years I think

i am trying to change my upload speed throttle in slskqt 2017.2.20 and i can't for the life of me figure out how i set it in the first place. i only mention it because somebody sent out a mass message saying they were going to start banning people who had throttle set to under 150 k/sec - i could complain but honestly, you know, fair enough. i just can't figure out how to do it!

literally the second after i posted that! it's on the "uploads" tab and not the "options" tab for some reason

Eh let them ban you who gives a shit. If you haven't set it before it'll be whatever your connection allows anyway iirc

soulseek still absolutely amazing. pretty hard to stump it!

It overwhelmed my router and assassinated my internet connection

long may it continue. well, let's fucking hope so.

well, not that bit. xp

i still don't use, or even know how to use, any of the functions besides searching and downloading. i've set my share folder and occasionally people will get something from it. that's it.

streaming kinda eclipsed soulseek for me :(

not me, still use it constantly