soulseek

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.

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!

There’s a song that’s been remotely queued in my list for over a year now. How does that happen?

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.

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

That’s fine if more than one person has that file.

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.

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

iirc you'd have to leave your computer/soulseek on all the time to retain your place in queue?

yep that's how it works.

I do leave my computer on all the time!! Do they still do the whole “download privileges” thing?

Oh yeah, I forgot about that. If you donate to slsk you get bumped to the top of the line.

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.

how do people have time to be so petty and weird???

good question, especially if it's just one bloody song

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

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.

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?

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

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.

xp ty

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.

ssshh ;-)

The first rule of Soulseek is…

If anyone asks just tell them it's a dating app

gotta keep slsk on the dl

there was a whole chapter on soulseek, but you have to be sharing at least 1gb of files to be allowed to see it

actually two chapters but you have to trade scramoutcha for the second one

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

Though frigged if i know what the main torrent site would be right now... or is it all just fragmented into genre sites?

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.

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.)

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.

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.

sometimes i look at what people have grabbed and i'll be like..... wtf i have megadeth albums??

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

brad downloaded something off me today and i feel so validated

yr goddamn right those tags are immaculate

The other day I browsed the library of a user I was downloading from who had like 50% IDM, 50% 80s/90s Japanese music, and the full XTC catalog - it had to have been frogbs, right? if so, thank you for the Akiko Yano!

When I try to download stuff I mainly just get a red ABORTED message in the transfers window... what gives

not happening for me.

we should have a 77 slsk thread so we can share usernames.

good idea

I’ve been here since 09 and I still have no idea how to access 77 so I guess email me if you want mine I’ve got lots of underground indie post punk

I’ve been here since 06 and I still have no idea how to slsk

Evan, just leave a message here - Request Access to 77 Borad

I started going on this rant on the 77 username thread but probably better to put the posts here:

I've been obsessively curating the album art as well lately so most of my files should have nice clean square-shaped images of the album covers attached. I do this because it's my fussy little project to have my apple "Music" (iTunes) mp3 library as neat an symmetrical as possible. So that should be saved to the metadata of the files... (apple is weird about how it links artwork hence my slight uncertainty - pretty sure it's all there though).

This means some of the rare cassette / underground stuff I've been loading required me to "rebuild" album art into that square requirement that is otherwise seemingly not available on the web, so dorks like me that care about that sort of thing might appreciate this if they stumble upon one of those examples.

I've customized album art for some live albums, too.

― Evan, Friday, March 3, 2023 10:54 AM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink

Basically if it doesn't have artwork it doesn't go into my digital library, so if I care about it I'll make artwork from scratch as thoughtfully as possible.

― Evan, Friday, March 3, 2023 11:02 AM (three days ago) bookmarkflaglink

Anyone else have their little metadata file curation obsessions or does nothing matter except the quality of the sound?

I cannot be doing with incorrect id3 data, "various" as artist name is a particular non-favourite.

Also for selfish reasons I need everything to be labelled with year of recording, if people did this it would save me literally a week of work every year.