soulseek

fwiw i don't get new releases off slsk. it's stuff that's impossible to find or only for a lot of money on discogs. i do like to buy records when i really like them and can afford it and i do.

after decades of searching out and discovering music in record stores, searching online (mail order sites like Forced Exposure and Mimaroglu) music forums, et al.. reading about music in WIRE magazine, and making purchases based on reviews, write-ups, etc. i feel almost no inclination to use Spotify. i don't have any strong (ethical) feelings about it. like others, i started using sites like Audiogalaxy and slsk during the early 00s, and probably abused the privilege more back then, while continuing to purchase music. since acquiring a smartphone, and using both Bandcamp and Soundcloud (great for streaming curated, 'amateur' content) to share music, i'm more inclined to make impulse purchases on Bandcamp, or order physical copies directly from the artist/label. slsk is still a great resource for listening to new/impulse discoveries, and to sample new releases (rarely) ... beyond that, CDs (or tapes, if they're of decent quality) are the preferred medium for listening

https://www.reddit.com/r/Soulseek/comments/ds68t6/serious_souls_travelling/

wtf

*metempsychotic nod*

who the fuck is deejay.zone and can they please fuck right the fuck off with their fucking padlock and 50 versions of every other track I want

Sorry, I'll unlock them right now.

There should be a way that you can share whatever files you want but not share them to users whose files are locked.

I don't want to understand the psychology of people that will put stuff in the shared folder zone, but not actually fucking share it.

Fucking hoarder hagglers and braggarts. Truly the worst soulseekers.

exclusive footage of scramoutcha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsZyiQFQO0Q

Now there's a name I haven't seen in a while (the ignore list is a godsend).

this deejay.zone guy is a new kind of dickhead threat - seems to be using slsk and various other platforms to advertise his "dj sharing" website. I am not going to click that shit but a google search gives a summary

got a new router with my new internet service and i cannot figure out how to port forward on it. gah.

i feel your pain

trying to remember if I've ever run across this dude, I think I just tune out anyone locked

ALRIGHT BIG MAN, I DON'T NEED YOUR 160KBPS MP3S THAT BADLY BIG MAN

https://i.imgur.com/Np82uvR.jpg

(he'd probably add me to his list if I asked, but I'm not really in the mood to grovel. at least he isn't one of those trade only motherfuckers)

protip: you can exclude a particular user's locked files from your wishlist search results by adding search terms unique to their folder structure and preceding them with minus signs, ex.:

bebe rexha meant to be live acoustic -trevorsmusic -seagate -unsortedmusictorrents -lossy -discografia

...or you can just add them to your ignore list

New SoulseekQt build for the macOS Catalina users out there: http://www.slsknet.org/news/node/3668

ppl still do p2p filesharing? wild.

it's the only way to be

Soulseek is the most important program in my life. I have been using it regularly since 2001. If it ever goes down... God forbid... life is over.

definitely swung back to 'streaming wuh? i gotta get mine and have it' the past year or so

ppl still do p2p filesharing? wild.

^^ ding ding ding.

as if p2p filesharing isn't nuff hi-tech and futuristic! There is no way I want to be reliant on shitty Virgin broadband for music listening and I'll take mp3 players over 4g streaming for music on the go, forever.

yup

I dunno - I systematically download locally the files I want to listen to from streaming services so i don't really see a big difference there. As for permanent ownershipn, if I really feel strongly about owning the files for good, i'll just go and buy the CD. I understand this may not be an option for obscure/exotic/bootleg files (which are the only things I still use slsk for).

no judgment; i honestly didn't even know that services like soulseek were still around.

I still use it a few times a year. I think my profile note thing now apologetically describes my pattern of (offensively low-level) usage as "I share what I download but it's mostly just things that are either not on Spotify and/or I can't be bothered digging out of the physical collection" or similar.

What's wild is how great it still is. Been getting tons of obscure 80s stuff lately that's prob never even made it to CD let alone near a streaming service

i mainly use slsk for out-of-print stuff/imports/dance 12-inches and yeah it's just... ridiculously great. occasionally failed me on the more obscure dance 12-inches but you can't have it all

soulseek is the last good thing on the internet

it pays off surprisingly often for me (knock on wood)... felt like I was never going to find the Naomi N'Uru "Wurm" album or Spikes "Colour in a Black Forest/6 Sharp Cuts" comp(out of print Aussie punk/wave/alt band, CD goes for hundreds) and soulseek obliged me when I added them to my wishlist.

soulseek is still pretty good though not as great as what was before it died

I still stump our streaming service enough to warrant searching for files. Same goes for torrents, for that matter. Bugs the hell out of me that we have five premium places to stream movies and they still regularly don't have the *one* movie I want to watch when I want to watch it. Took us forever to find that excellent Amish documentary "The Devil's Playground" the other night. It was supposedly on Netflix, I think, but we ended up having to watch it on youtube.

I still grab a lot of stuff from there. there's so much that's not available on streaming or only through some foreign iTunes store which is its own adventure (and I'd probably jump through those hoops if I knew the artist was making more than like 40 cents)

Soulseek RULES even more than Pink Floyd. Can you imagine?

"Last good thing on the internet" is so right. Still use it weekly for otherwise unstreamable/unfindable music and movies. Never got into torrenting bc of it.

indeed, I still use it all the time

idk if it's my network but my phone seems to have bad connectivity in a lot of spots when I'm on the road. plus I don't have unlimited data. so streaming is kind of a no-go for me. I'll drop cash on Bandcamp & for vinyl of course but yeah, give me the MP3s and I'm happy

Anyone know how to fix the browser becoming so wide due to copy and pasting overlong text, by mistake? Can't seem to resize it horizontally.

wait you can get films on slsk?!?

it's p2p mahnnn, you can get anything. It's a good epub source as well.

@Paul, I had the annoying way-too-wide-screen thing on. Removing and re-installing did the trick for me.

yeah, I probably use it more for films than music today tbh. I dont mess around with new releases or tv series or anything bc that stuffs available thru other means, but for old/foreign/silent/OOP stuff thats not otherwise avail, slsk is a goldmine.

I've done that thing where I've swapped laptops and been logged in on the old one for so long I've forgotten everything to do with logging in. I was probably paranoid enough to set up a new email address to register too, so not sure a reset is even an option. Will I lose anything by re-registering?

I was going to abandon it as I only use is sporadically but seeing this revive has given me itchy fingers.

it's good for hard to find audiobooks as well. I only just found this out recently.

@Le Bateau - thanks!

Echoing the love for Soulseek, it's my primary download source. There's a few users I've bookmarked with loads of UK pirate radio air checks from the 1960s, and collections of mono vinyl rips that I can't find elsewhere. Great for bootlegs, too, since I hate dealing with FileFactory etc. on blogs. I love it when I stumble on someone's exhaustive collection using the browse feature, too.