soulseek

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.

I'm pleasantly surprised it's still around, but these things do eventually enter into a phase of fuzzed out low-key stagnation. It feels a little like running IE 6. There are lots of old bootlegs that used to be around back in the day that aren't anymore... there's stuff there that you can't find anywhere else, but the same is true of Spotify, Bandcamp, YouTube - there is no One Music Service to Rule Them All and that's probably for the best. Honestly I do think Bandcamp is better than Soulseek these days... at least I hear more music on Bandcamp than I do Soulseek, and I feel better about it...

Whenever it goes I'll miss it, especially as I myself have never developed a basic level of trust for streaming, for anything that I don't have multiple backup copies of.

It's nice for ebooks (like there's stuff there that isn't on Libgen), audiobooks. Not so great for films. Is the ED2K network still around?

New SoulseekQt build

huh, weird, does it chop off the first/last characters of searches for anyone else? i can't tell if it does so in the display or in the string actually searched on

Same here. We need a hotfix for the hotfix.

i guess you could always add repeated characters to the start and end of your string : )

which if you do, does prove that it's a display problem and not a search string problem

Since people here are reporting that Soulseek is still active and useful, I thought I might start up a client again and share what I have.

But then I remembered that when I used Soulseek on Linux a decade ago, Windows users were unable to download any of my files with : in the filename. The colon is permitted in filenames on Linux, but not on Windows, and I use colons a lot because I share a great deal of classical music with multiple movements (e.g. "Symphony No. 4: III..flac").

What used to happen is that people on Windows would try to download from me, the resulting file would be empty on their end, and then they would send me angry private messages and ban me from accessing any of their shares. I wonder if this bug was ever fixed.

macos too

We need a hotfix for the hotfix.

Another reason never to update to Catalina, which is another factor pushing toward a future, devoutly to be wished for, in which I never use a computer again.

Soulseek on windows is a great program

I do love the slsk.exe

You can always try and run soulseek Windows via Wine on a Mac.

I love how if you run a search for The B@atles it won't throw back anything but you can search for individual albums, songs, bootlegs etc: I wonder what other artists/bands it does that with.

yeah, something I've been trying to test, seems they stopped adding popular artists at least 5 years ago.

also stripping those apostrophes out of your searches is always a good idea for some reason

I'm pleasantly surprised it's still around, but these things do eventually enter into a phase of fuzzed out low-key stagnation. It feels a little like running IE 6.

Slsk is an exception to the rule, and it's good not bad that the interface is more or less the same than it was 20 years ago. Only stupid thing is the ability to lock folders now.

Yeah keep the UI the same until I die, I'm not bothered

I wonder what other artists/bands it does that with.

I run across this in weirder areas, some Drag City or Matador bands and indie rock on that level sometimes.

After years of familiarity with the Windows client I do find the Mac version UI even more hideous.

yup

my pet peeve is there's this one user (a lot of the sharing i find has been centralized to a few "seeder" type accounts with fast connections) whose files show up in searches but when i try to download from them always shows up as offline. it's only that user, too. i used to be able to download from them fine, i have no idea why i can't download from them anymore.

is it g4nx0

I think that means they've blocked you?

i thought that was red FILE NOT SHARED in my transfers list

is it g4nx0

― adam

nope

Saw 80 new answers on the soulseek thread and panicked

Is there any sort of alternative to soulseek - eMule maybe?

frostwire

is it g4nx0

― adam,

it is for me! what's his or her deal?

I just had what I think is my first ever 'come and visit our homepage/support our app etc!' message, with an offer of a bunch of freebies. Is that a new thing?

i had one of those the other day. i think i had one a long way back but i hadn't seen one in forever. i did recently upgrade my app, per above discussion, but the 'support' prompt did not at all come immediately

I only downloaded onto my new machine a couple of weeks ago, so that sounds pretty similar to your experience. Got a Windows 10 notification about 10 seconds after, too - telling me about some new EP (I think - I blatted it pretty quick). Weird.

Scramoutcha can fuck right off

Hello fellow Soulseeker! Please review the following points before contacting me:

• Please only contact me if you have an item from my wishlist to exchange (see links below) OR if you have some rare Vinyl lossless rips to offer - Discogs collection links welcomed!
• I am NOT interested in new releases nor unreleased. I exchange complete releases, not loose tracks (exception made for the tracks listed in my track wishlist below).
• Be advised I may ask you to provide spectral analyses to make sure your files are not lossy transcoded (e.g. MP3 128 Kbps converted to FLAC). You can easily create spectrals using Spek: www.github.com/withmorten/spek-alternative#sources--packages
• About my ZIP files: most of my FLAC files are stored on external drives and I keep their references as small zipped files on my computer. If you have something to trade, you will be able to review the files and spectrals before we exchange.
• The items in my collection are NOT for sale. Please do not contact me with monetary offers - I am only interested in exchanges.
• Please do not offer me files that are freely available on Soulseek, Rutracker, open trackers, etc. I have access to them just as well as you do!

......................................................................................................... WISHLIST LINKS ........................................................................................................

1. Lossless ONLY (FLAC, WAV, AIFF, ALAC or APE): https://bit.ly/wishlossless
2. Lossy (MP3, AAC) ≥192 Kbps (unless specified) or Lossless: https://bit.ly/wishlossy

............................................................................. SAME WISHLIST FILTERED BY GENRE (Lossless + Lossy) .....................................................................

• Electronic: https://bit.ly/wishelectronic
• Rare Groove (Soul, Disco, Funk, Jazz, Regional, etc.): https://bit.ly/wishraregrooves
• Rock: https://bit.ly/wishrock
• Hip Hop: https://bit.ly/wishhiphop
• Miscellaneous (Pop, Soundtrack, Classical, etc.): https://bit.ly/wishmisc

..............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

🔺Alternatively, feel free to contact me if you have RARE VINYL LOSSLESS RIPS - preferably from the following genres but I am open to all proposals: Soul / Gospel / Funk / Disco / Boogie / Jazz / Folk / Minimal Wave / 90s East Coast Hip Hop / Brazilian / Caribbean / African / Turkish🔺

I will also send you the release you want if you can provide ONE of the following TRACKS in 🔥LOSSLESS🔥 QUALITY (FLAC, WAV, AIFF, ALAC or APE) 💩NOT MP3💩 :

(wishlist follows here)

You have none of these but still want to download from me? Help me identify ONE of the following tracks and you will get the release you want in exchange! (Rare Vinyl rips excluded) [THIS IS NOT A CHALLENGE, I AM REALLY LOOKING FOR THESE!]
• Contemporary Folk track @13MIN in the following mix: https://www65.zippyshare.com/v/iSQDopms/file.html
• Tech-House/Electro-House track @18MIN in the following mix: https://mixesdb.com/?506806
• Brazilian track: ID source release or correct performer of the following cover of "Pena Verde" originally written by Abílio Manoel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTqmpqU1aqo ["Nelson Quinteto" doesn't seem to exist. The performer is not Nelson Oliva]

>> SPECIAL LIBRARY DEAL 📚 :
If you are registered in a public or university library and are willing to loan and rip any CD/LP/DVD from the following Worldcat lists via your national interlibrary loan system, feel free to PM me for a swap agreement:
• USA: https://www.worldcat.org/profiles/RecordsCat/lists/3810567?view=&count=100
• Worldwide: https://www.worldcat.org/profiles/RecordsCat/lists/3811886?view=&count=100

🔺Alternatively, feel free to contact me if you have RARE VINYL LOSSLESS RIPS - preferably from the following genres but I am open to all proposals: Soul / Gospel / Funk / Disco / Boogie / Jazz / Folk / Minimal Wave / 90s East Coast Hip Hop / Brazilian / Caribbean / African / Turkish🔺

🕺 Happy digging! 💃

Yeah, I bumped into that specimen this weekend. Fuck him.

Blocked him years ago, but might unblock so I can tell him to fuck off.

Just the fucking worst soulseeker. I don't even believe he has everything he claims to have.