soulseek

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?

That is wild o_O

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

― 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.

I just checked and I seem to have two spare invites to JPopSuki if anyone wants them LBI, Frogbs?

Ohh that would be amazing!

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.

<3 bison2

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.

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

― MarkoP, Wednesday, May 22, 2019 4:12 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol otm.

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

Hey guys slsk is great but pipe down knaw mean?

also fair to say that anyone 'scandalized' by this likely doesn't understand rave culture, I mean come on

― frogbs

god if their music is pulled for any reason i'd think it would be for inducing epilepsy

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

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 :(

these posts brought to you by 2007

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

Hmm struggling to understand your hang up about the provenance. If the sound quality is good it's indistinguishable from any other digital album in my library whether I ripped it myself or not.

You mean distinguishing remaster from original - that kind of thing?

the basic fear is that the FLAC you downloaded is actually just transcoded from an mp3, or if it's mp3s you download, that it was ripped from a scratched up disc without error correction, which maybe led to it having artifacts etc. that you don't even know about until you compare it to a pristine, original copy. if you download a vinyl rip, are you really downloading the vinyl rip or is it a youtube-dl rip somebody did of somebody else's vinyl rip? itunes era gets even worse with itunes exclusive content - if you're downloading an album in FLAC that has the itunes exclusive content, it's probably been transcoded as for a certain time itunes songs were only available in 256kbps AAC. ever notice when soulseeking that every user's version of a track or album will be a different filesize? probably 95% of the time it's from different metadata, but maybe there is something different about how they sound?

sort of reminds me of how pirate groups used to include an actual photo of the CD they used for the release, maybe along with the encoder settings (LAME or die), to show it was a good rip.

even if you have a pristine source, there are certain albums that won't sound right when ripped unless the right settings are applied - see this discussion about CDs with pre-emphasis flags https://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=Pre-emphasis i believe there was discussion in the CDs thread about this too. or maybe it's a gapless CD but the gapless nature wasn't encoded right.

look, it all gets a bit neurotic and you sound like you're already pretty neurotic about the metadata, so sorry for introducing something else to get neurotic about, speaking as one neurotic to another. if it helps you can try to become a member of a group like redacted or something, where somebody else has done all the obsessing about the quality of the files before they make their way onto the platform.

(and yes, that's not even getting into the original vs. remaster, and whether the person who ripped it bothered to even doublecheck the musicbrainz or w/e ID3 tags their software automatically appended to the rip. but maybe if you're only into obscure indie releases for which there was only ever One Good Version then that doesn't matter as much.)

i search for flacs with logs/cues (although i rarely keep them in that format because lame v0 sounds perfectly fine to me and i'm running out of space). check the flacs with audiochecker; if for some reason it hates the flacs i'll check the log settings. but honestly if someone knows how to create and save an eac or xld log, they probably know what they're doing in general

also i grew up taping shit off the radio. i mean i'll try to get the best quality but i'm not too bothered if the stuff i'm stealing wasn't ripped with the correct drive offset

yeah i always download from users with logs/cues too

I can’t be bothered at all wrt providence, quality assurance, unless it turns out to be something that I get obsessed with and seriously can’t find any way else

ok actually I am more scrutinizing when it comes to finding rips of ultra specific cd pressings of albums I definitely definitely already own

“unless it turns out to be something that I get obsessed with and seriously can’t find any way else”

by “seriously can’t find any way else” I mean in a physical not-terribly-mastered/pressed format

yeah, see, I just can’t understand this way of thinking or caring about digital music files. seems like a massive time investment for what, to me, is pretty minimal scale of difference.

you should bump all the other threads involving things you don’t care about too, just so we know

Guess you wouldn’t stand for my rare Audiogalaxy 64kb transcoded rips then.

you should bump all the other threads involving things you don’t care about too, just so we know

you should bump all the other threads involving things you don’t care about too, just so we know

loool downloaded something that had an *enormous* selection of proust in the lyrics tag <3