soulseek

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"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.

ha, I just pay close attention to people's folder hierarchies and avoid downloading from them when it's obvious that their entire library is one megafolder called Justin's Music or whatever. I also avoid users with folders called Música OR Descargas because for whatever reason their files tend to be horribly mistagged or devoid of metadata. it's kind of hard to avoid when downloading Spanish indiepop, though

(not sure why that OR is in all caps)

i love música

yeah i have the same "browse folder" issue, i'm getting better at managing it though

my issues with downloading folders is that i don't get subfolders unless i browse someone's files first, otherwise i just get the dreaded "cd1" and "cd2" directories full of i-don't-know-what

mind you i have wound up being more careful when doing "download folder" precisely because of the continuing all-files-in-one-directory phenomenon; would be nice if some build figured out a way to manage that without crashing the client

and yeah, bad tagging is a continuing issue. i certainly perpetuate it because i don't keep my files cleaned and properly tagged, but few people seem to actually ban me so i'm probably at least doing the bare minimum

i guess i can try un- and re-installing the client. i "upgraded" to the 64 bit version today and it didn't change a thing. mostly i'm worried about my wishlist, which is large and immaculately curated.

When I'll still use it...A friend was doing one of those Facebook things this week on his 10 favourite jazz albums. He posted two by Julius Hemphill, who I don't know at all. Checked Amazon, and both started at $100 (with the CD for one ~$700). So over to Soulseek. Otherwise, just the occasional song now.

i too long for a reasonably priced reissue of dogon a.d.

i thought they just did one?? in 2011??

kate, i downloaded a couple pretty obscure albums from you on slsk a couple months ago that i couldn't really find available anywhere else so thank you!

people with massive "Music" folders with thousands of files in has been an issue for at least 18 years

I haven't really had any issues lately?

I have unsorted folders for upcoming years, 1935-2015, sometimes with thousands of tracks inside, occasionally people try to download them and quickly cancel everything, sorry guys, in a decade or so they will all be nicely sorted.

I've been unable to see my wishlist or dl progress / transfers for over a year and I've just been sorta dealing with it. The Soulseek icon on my desktop will flash but I can't see what it's notifying me about, whether it's something that's come up on my (vanished) wishlist or someone trying to communicate with me via chat. The only way I know something has completed downloading is by searching the Soulseek folder on my desktop. I don't use slsk a ton so it's not a huge deal and is just something I've gotten used to but I bet it would drive some people crazy.

And yes, the users with one gigantic folder are anathema. Because of the situation I describe above, when I do accidentally select "download folder" and it's this, I no longer have any way of stopping or canceling the downloads, so I've had to construct a tedious and elaborate workaround wherein I go in and lock the corresponding folder on my browser so nothing can be added to it, as this is literally the only way I've found to avoid flooding my laptop with someone's entire music library. As a result I have a handful of locked folders in my Soulseek subfolder, variously called "singles," or "my music" or whatever and it's really annoying.

(they remain there because if I unlock them and try to trash them, they reappear every time I open soulseek and commence filling up again)

That's very odd. Have you tried reinstalling slsk? I quit using wishlist ages ago, I remember a friend tried it for the first time and put "beatles" on his wishlist, had to delete and reinstall then too, it just crashed whenever you opened it.

this is of course in the days before "beatles" was a blocked search term

I have literally none of these problems, and I've got it running on Linux and Windows (different machines obv)

Have you tried reinstalling slsk?

Several times. Same problem. It's a weird one.

Not encountered any of the problems above. My only gripe would be that for the last couple of weeks the search results are way less?

Am I imagining this or did they used to have a connect/disconnect to server button, and you could connect to a different server and get other search results?

in 2020 one of my favorite ways of discovering music is still searching on slsk for obscure tracks i like and checking out all the comps that theyve appeared on that show up in the search results, god bless this wonderful program

xp -- check your router settings

firewalls too, seems to be less of a problem than it once was though.

fwiw the version of Slsk I'm running on my Windows laptop is quite old, 2017.2.20, maybe these problems people are having are due to bugs in newer versions?

yeah, installing an old version might be an idea.

i was running 2017.02.20 before

funnily enough once i connected to my vpn things started to work fine... i did see the site did recommend i turn off my isp's firewall software, but i'm not necessarily going to turn off my isp's firewall just because some piracy site on the internet tells me to, y'know? i am not exactly happy with the notion that the major american isp i use seems to have determined soulseek to be a "malicious site" that needs to be blocked and that i don't know a way to tell it "yeah no go ahead and let that through". but fuck it, that's a classic first world problem, right?

i only buy a new computer when i'm absolutely forced to, just so i don't have to deal with all the port forwarding bullshit again

the weird thing there is, on this laptop I haven't bothered doing the ports. they are CLOSED! yet everything still works fine, I get lots of search results and don't have any trouble downloading anything. I'm using the 2018.1.30 linux version here.

I'm not actually sharing any files on this laptop though, it's my ancient spare one but the screen is broken on my other laptop that has shared files on it, I just use this in the living room and if I feel like downloading something. I get banned every now and again but don't care because I can just cue it up on the other laptop if that happens.

yeah you can still download with closed ports -- can't upload tho

ah fair enough then

i try downloading an album, first song works but everything after that stays queued (retry download doesn't work).

thought i'd update or reinstall my client but i can't access slsknet.org for some reason.

;_;

Huh, that's weird. Are you on Windows or Mac?

closed ports also limits search results ime

my old mac is the og downloader but i have a newer windows laptop.

switched to my mobile hotspot, found slsknet no problem. i guess xfinity blocks it, rad. turns out i had already installed it on my new machine though lol and *sigh* works fine.

lately all my download attempts are immediately listed as 'aborted' in red. every now and again they'll be 'queued' for a few minutes and then aborted.

all ports open. music shared. dunno what's going on.

are you on comcast? they implemented some "protection" program that blocks soulseek transfers. you have to turn it off for soulseek to work - i think there's more info about it on soulseek's homepage. i was wary about doing it too, because it's called something like "advanced threat protection", but since turning it off a month ago i haven't had any problems.

No probs here, but we're on Verizon

i'm in the uk. on plusnet, which is owned by BT.