soulseek

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.

https://pics.me.me/you-there-fuck-off-and-when-you-get-there-fuck-7666424.png

"Be advised I may ask you to provide spectral analyses to make sure your files are not lossy transcoded"

I saw your mom getting some spectral anal-ysis last night night, again!

LOL

those guys are incredible assholes, but at least pretty rare

more impressed with how many people share nothing. i mean burn two cds, make even a token effort

Sometimes it might be an accident, like a drive getting unplugged and when you plug it back in it isn't shared anymore until you notice. But even there should something in your Complete folder ffs!

there’s a million dudes like that on the ol slsk

nobody ever uploads from me : (

a user i had previously banned for sharing nothing just messaged me: really nigga?

Ah that'd give me flashbacks to 2007-2008

maybe they need to forward their damn ports

I only block (+mute) people for locking their tracks, won't bother browsing people who dl from me so don't encounter people with 0 files shared.

c&p'd from the necrobumped thread:

soulseek has been so completely flaky over the last week or so, whenever downloading one file will go and then the rest will just sit there and never start. i know enough that i'm not the only one having this problem but there's no acknowledgement of the problem or any eta on fixing it. i know soulseek is literally old enough to vote at this point and at some point i guess i should just let it go...

in the meantime here are some messages i got recently from someone else having the same problem

(9:37:19)(redacted) re start your files
(11:56:17)(redacted) he y mushroom restart your files

(my slsk username is the same as my ilx username. it is not "mushroom".)

uh lol @ "he y mushroom". I've been having the same problem lately, and at first I thought it had something to do with the uploaders' preferences (like the way some users will only let you download 10 files at a time before bumping you to the back of their queue). I realized, though, that when I right click on the non-starting files and select "retry downloads", they'll generally start right up. maybe you've tried that already without success?

another issue I've noticed is that when I right click on a file in my search results and click "browse folder", the folder that pops up in the user's library is often several folders above (or below?) the actual file location. I'll be looking for a Krisma album and the highlighted folder will be something by Kris Kristofferson, and I'll have to either scroll up to the right folder or select "browser folder" again to get to the right place. it's a minor gripe, but it's been going on for what seems like years. also sometimes when I right click on a single file and click "download folder(s)", the popup will say "requesting list of files in folder..." but the other files will never show up in the list.

but yeah, I should be thankful that slsk is still functional at all in 2020 and stop being such a
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y28rUFvLXDc

only issue i've had is that

sometimes when I right click on a single file and click "download folder(s)", the popup will say "requesting list of files in folder..." but then totally crash. not sure if they have 50k files in that folder or something, but some users just can't be browsed that way

it remains amazing, as do i as a blazing beacon of ideal tagging

I had the same problem. Un- and reinstalled and it was fixed. Lost my userlist in the process, tho.