soulseek

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.

ahhhh i fixed it. after a looong way round with UPnP and all kinds of bullshit. it had nothing to do with that. my Downloads folder was set to a folder that doesn't exist any more! BLEAH

Nice!

What does it mean when the little icon in the top left is red and nothing works--is the site down?

you aren't connected? soulseek itself isn't down.

ive been introducing zoomers to slsk, it's my contribution to youth culture

I guess I wasn't connected--resolved itself after a couple of tries.

I once again want to say: fuck Scramouthca. Want that fucker to burn in hell.

otm

^^^^

This is the thread where we tell Scramoutcha to FUCK OFF

I cannot countenance any of these pricks that house files in their public shared folder and then either want to conduct some trade deal that isn't in the spirit of slsk or have some other convoluted reason for not sharing them. Instant unshare files from user and fuck off forever response from me every time.

blocked that fuckwit years ago and this is how you remind me

Betcha all his files are fake, he’s just there to get a rise out of us.

thedaytheclowndied(full).mpeg

Fuck you Scramoutcha, you wouldn't last a week in this administration.

I clicked on this wondering if everyone was talking about Scramoutcha

searching the net for their name comes up with a lot of results pf people saying they don't actually have all the files they claim they do, and when someone tries to trade with them they just try to grab the files from one of the private trackers they're on, but sometimes that's ended up with them not quite delivering on what's promised lol

lol, just as I thought.

I mean:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaramouche

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQbW75y3P9g

someone pls add him to that wikipedia entry

I guess I shouldn't gender a stranger but its gotta be a dude

I mean, Scaramouche was a dude so no foul imo.

if I ever find that motherfucker you better bet he's gonna do a mfin fandango for me

searching the net for their name comes up with a lot of results pf people saying they don't actually have all the files they claim they do, and when someone tries to trade with them they just try to grab the files from one of the private trackers they're on, but sometimes that's ended up with them not quite delivering on what's promised lol

https://www.reddit.com/r/Soulseek/comments/atkov0/scramoutcha/

can't you block the fandango

blocking all people who lock anything and sending them messages telling them so.

on a related note does anyone have a RED invite?

meeting soulseek user scramoutcha in international waters to trade rare mp3s and flacs pic.twitter.com/upI3Uw0XZK

— m*lky (@malkyyyyy) March 9, 2021

lol

Omg lol

ahahaha