soulseek

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

I just wonder why anyone would ever give someone like that any time whatsoever. There's almost nothing I haven't been able to find on SSK given time + tenacity, eff any twerp who guards their ones and zeros like they're the treasure of El Dorado.

Is there a list of the artists/bands that are excluded from the search engine?

I got The Beatles and Prince but it'd be interesting to see what else there is/ain't.

I've struggled with recent K and J pop. Not sure if they're excluded or just nobody has them, but I would imagine the former.

I have a spare couple of invites for jpopsuki, if yer interested Emily

I've found with some JPop stuff that it's just that nobody has it.

Oh hell yes, please Maresn3st.

Drop me a line on nakagincapsuletower at gmail dot com

I use soulseek but don’t understand what this means. There are excluded keywords?

Try searching for 'Beatles', nothing comes up, you could find stuff if you use other terms though.

From Soulseek forum:

Some searches are blocked. I can't go into too much detail about it except to say that we don't have a choice in the matter.

I can't go into too much detail, but 'beatles' is one of the terms we have to filter for legal reasons.

i think beyonce is another one