A little silhouetto of a man who has (allegedly) a huge selection of lossless files
I spit coffee just now
new board description please
― Paul Ponzi, Saturday, 16 October 2021 10:36 (two years ago) link
A little silhouetto of a man who has (allegedly) a huge selection of lossless files that he locks and will only let other users d/l from him if they trade him something he wants.
― calstars, Saturday, 16 October 2021 12:10 (two years ago) link
Try searching for 'Beatles', nothing comes up, you could find stuff if you use other terms though.
Yeah, I think I used to be able to find individual songs using creative search terms (e.g. a couple of words from a song title reversed), but that was a few years ago.
― clemenza, Saturday, 16 October 2021 13:40 (two years ago) link
foreign stuff being missing is typically just no one has it
Yeah, but I'm talking like almost Blackpink levels of pop for the most part. Stuff that I would definitely expect someone to have, coming up with zero results. P sure that's keyword exclusion. (I wish I could remember an exact example of who I was searching for, don't think it actually *was* Blackpink in any of the cases.)
― emil.y, Saturday, 16 October 2021 13:58 (two years ago) link
I think even The Db's are blocked
― PaulTMA, Saturday, 16 October 2021 14:05 (two years ago) link
might just be the problem it has with apostrophes
― edited to reflect developments which occurred (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 16 October 2021 18:59 (two years ago) link
I didn't know there was any search blocking on Soulseek. "beatles" indeed no results!
couple of words from a song title reversed
hey jude and "Hey Jude" and jude hey gave me a load of good results. hey jude, hey just turned up some medleys with "Hey Jude" in them. Don't think there is song title filtering?
It seems good at including punctuation right where you use it. "the db's" is blocked. No results. Funnily "db's" alone is not blocked. And "the dbs" works for the many people who have their files named that way.
"who's zoomin' who" also no problem.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Sunday, 17 October 2021 18:07 (two years ago) link
yeah slsk search is a piece of shit
― flopson, Sunday, 17 October 2021 18:25 (two years ago) link
"hed kandi" doesn't work but "kandi" does and then you can filter with using "hed"― boxedjoy, Saturday, October 16, 2021 8:14 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglinknewsyoucanuse.gif― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Saturday, October 16, 2021 9:21 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
― boxedjoy, Saturday, October 16, 2021 8:14 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
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― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Saturday, October 16, 2021 9:21 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
this made me lose it, don't know why as it actually is news i can use
― Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Sunday, 17 October 2021 18:40 (two years ago) link
rutracker for pop music tbh.
― RobbiePires, Monday, 18 October 2021 02:38 (two years ago) link
i usually don't have much trouble finding that sort of stuff on soulseek, but sometimes it's just no one's online & someone has it the next day
― ufo, Monday, 18 October 2021 03:07 (two years ago) link
Every time I use this now, I have to uninstall and reinstall--something about ports. I reinstall and it works fine--till I log off. Fix?
― clemenza, Sunday, 23 January 2022 03:42 (two years ago) link
in the comment tag of something i downloaded:
Thank you for download my friend. I hope you will enjoy. Keep yourself from soulless and pop music. And be yourself.
― mookieproof, Sunday, 30 January 2022 02:51 (two years ago) link
xp it's to do with port forwarding and your internet router. you need to go into your router settings and allow port forwarding and all that business. not sure exactly what, sorry!
― maelin, Sunday, 30 January 2022 21:23 (two years ago) link
There’s a song that’s been remotely queued in my list for over a year now. How does that happen?
― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 1 February 2022 09:20 (two years ago) link
I have a metal demo queued that only one user has shared, he's almost never on and when he is I'm at like 5,000th in the list, just enjoying the absurdity of it at this point.
― made entirely of styrofoam (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 1 February 2022 14:20 (two years ago) link
Oh it's been queued for like 2.5 years now.
Times like that you miss Audiogalaxy's ability to continue downloading the file from other users if the one goes offline
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 1 February 2022 15:03 (two years ago) link
That’s fine if more than one person has that file.
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 1 February 2022 16:11 (two years ago) link
Don't some users bump up downloaders based on their "credentials" or whatever they use to judge them? So if you don't have anything they want, they'll just constantly promote others downloads who do.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 1 February 2022 19:13 (two years ago) link
idk if anyone does that, but i have noticed a lot of people think they do. i get people asking if i'll bump them to the front and i'm like no i can't even look at my uploads without crashing slsk idk what goes on over there
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Tuesday, 1 February 2022 20:18 (two years ago) link
iirc you'd have to leave your computer/soulseek on all the time to retain your place in queue?
― maf you one two (maffew12), Tuesday, 1 February 2022 20:25 (two years ago) link
yep that's how it works.
― visiting, Tuesday, 1 February 2022 21:29 (two years ago) link
I do leave my computer on all the time!! Do they still do the whole “download privileges” thing?
― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 1 February 2022 23:48 (two years ago) link
Oh yeah, I forgot about that. If you donate to slsk you get bumped to the top of the line.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 2 February 2022 02:07 (two years ago) link
One thing I absolutely love is when someone has a song you've been looking for for years, you set it up to DL, they log off and then log back on and that file's been unshared. Very classy.
― made entirely of styrofoam (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 3 February 2022 08:26 (two years ago) link
how do people have time to be so petty and weird???
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 3 February 2022 10:47 (two years ago) link
good question, especially if it's just one bloody song
― made entirely of styrofoam (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 3 February 2022 13:11 (two years ago) link
sometimes people accuse me of not sharing files. idk if there's an error where it sometimes falsely says things are unshared or if people don't know what a queue is
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, 3 February 2022 14:21 (two years ago) link
Another "one guy has the album you're looking for but he's got it locked" night. I don't even know if I want it really but the only way to hear it is to illegally download it. I wanna DM the guy and say "hey can I get that" but I don't know if I would be able to resist appending "Your Majesty" to the request.
― made entirely of styrofoam (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 18 March 2022 09:17 (two years ago) link
so i was looking a flac of "last last" by burna boy to legit purchase and download but i can't find it. i hop on slsk and a few people have it, one even in 24 / 48. they're all in folders called "Singles Week". does anyone know what "Singles Week" is and if there's some kind of legit subscription or something for it?
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Monday, 20 June 2022 19:13 (one year ago) link
I don't know what Singles Week is, but FYI you can buy that flac at 7digital:
https://us.7digital.com/artist/burna-boy/release/last-last-21581467?h=01&f=20%2C19%2C12%2C16%2C17%2C9%2C2
― Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Monday, 20 June 2022 21:04 (one year ago) link
I've noticed those Singles Week things before. Oddly higher resolution than you might find a track anyplace else.. including this one. Not into hi res so whatever.. but it's weird and I imagine it's upsampled from I dunno what kind of source.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Monday, 20 June 2022 21:22 (one year ago) link
xp ty
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Monday, 20 June 2022 21:30 (one year ago) link
Recently read Stephen Witt's How Music Got Free, which was pretty exhaustive--from the development of the mp3 forward--and was surprised that Soulseek wasn't mentioned.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 21 June 2022 14:05 (one year ago) link
ssshh ;-)
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Tuesday, 21 June 2022 15:04 (one year ago) link
The first rule of Soulseek is…
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 21 June 2022 15:06 (one year ago) link
If anyone asks just tell them it's a dating app
― Evan, Tuesday, 21 June 2022 15:27 (one year ago) link
gotta keep slsk on the dl
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 21 June 2022 16:39 (one year ago) link
there was a whole chapter on soulseek, but you have to be sharing at least 1gb of files to be allowed to see it
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 21 June 2022 16:46 (one year ago) link
actually two chapters but you have to trade scramoutcha for the second one
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 22 June 2022 08:11 (one year ago) link
i could see a book on the topic not bothering with it. Has it had any time on "top" of music file sharing? After the big programs were dead it became all about torrents with immaculate encoding and tagging. Pretty strange. Bless the seek
― maf you one two (maffew12), Wednesday, 22 June 2022 13:59 (one year ago) link
Though frigged if i know what the main torrent site would be right now... or is it all just fragmented into genre sites?
― maf you one two (maffew12), Wednesday, 22 June 2022 14:01 (one year ago) link
ime they are all shitted up now and practically unusable. I pay a few quid a month for a usenet nzb site for movies, but if I'm looking for something like Herbie Nichols complete blue note recordings then slsk is still the only place 100% guaranteed to have it.
― calzino, Wednesday, 22 June 2022 14:05 (one year ago) link
i could see a book on the topic not bothering with it.
Kidding aside, that was my question: do I think Soulseek is better known than it actually is? The book dealt with all the famous torrent sites (never used one), Megaupload, etc., but not even a passing mention. And it still goes on...maybe it's just not prominent enough for anyone to bother shutting it down, or even to warrant a footnote in the book? (Plus streaming has taken over.)
― clemenza, Wednesday, 22 June 2022 14:08 (one year ago) link
I feel the author would have to know, and know of its sorta underground status.. and maybe consciously felt it best not to potentially draw undue attention to it.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Wednesday, 22 June 2022 14:12 (one year ago) link
re those Week xx flacs, I don't know, but:- someone has a few of these Singles Week xx yyyy folders in a directory called "torrents"- mostly these folders just contain flacs but a couple of people have some which include a file called "errors.txt", which is a list of track names, un-Googleable numeric IDs and the text "EBUSY: resource busy or locked, open '\T!D@L Music\New Tracks/WKxx/<filename.flac>" (I have Googleproofed the service name here)
So my possibly erroneous conclusion is: someone has a script to rip the new tracks from T!d@l every week and uploads them to a torrent site, but I have no idea how they do this or what torrent site.
(also the tracks have 90% English language titles and like 5% Dutch, so maybe that tells us something about the ripper's location, or maybe not)
I don't have a T!d@l account so I don't know if they still have that Burna Boy track, or whether there's an easy & legit way to get a weekly playlist of new singles releases there.
― a passing spacecadet, Wednesday, 22 June 2022 14:24 (one year ago) link
sometimes i look at what people have grabbed and i'll be like..... wtf i have megadeth albums??
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 22 June 2022 20:34 (one year ago) link
Under the Music section on various torrent sites you'll often see a folder like "UK Top 40 WK 17-06-22" or whatever, which will contain all the top 40 singles for that week, so I guess someone somewhere is ripping them somehow xp
― groovypanda, Friday, 24 June 2022 09:43 (one year ago) link
brad downloaded something off me today and i feel so validated
― mookieproof, Monday, 11 July 2022 22:10 (one year ago) link