Rediscovering soulseek

The existence of soulseek came to my mind the other day. I had given up on it years ago for Oink and such, and then, been using rapidshare-like sites for 2 years now. I thought about giving Soulseek a new chance (In the years I was using it, dl speed was like 10.3 ). And boom ! I realized everything I needed was there, without ratios, without waiting time, without ads. Fuck, I forgot how much browsing through users files was addictive, and that littl pleasure of banning people who don't share.

Soulseek rules, it's definitely back on the map.

i've been using slsk for years, never stopped. love it. it has all my electronic and metal needs.

  On 6/29/2010 at 1:41 AM, the anonymous forumite said:

Fuck, I forgot how much browsing through users files was addictive, and that littl pleasure of banning people who don't share.

 

Soulseek is probably the only program i never stopped using.

Yeah but fuck knows what kind of shitty transcodes you are downloading.

i download gb upon gb from people and then when they try to download off me i ban them

  On 6/29/2010 at 1:49 AM, Richy said:

Yeah but fuck knows what kind of shitty transcodes you are downloading.

um, what do you mean? my 320 mp3s are not legit?

  On 6/29/2010 at 1:49 AM, Richy said:

Yeah but fuck knows what kind of shitty transcodes you are downloading.

I have downloaded thousands of records and i can count as many problems with that as the fingers i have.

The only thing i am afraid of is being hacked through it. There are some reports on the web of people that had this problem.

But i guess i ll keep thinking it always happens to someone else... until it happens to me.

  On 6/29/2010 at 1:54 AM, Hanratty said:

  On 6/29/2010 at 1:49 AM, Richy said:

Yeah but fuck knows what kind of shitty transcodes you are downloading.

 

 

um, what do you mean? my 320 mp3s are not legit?

Who the fuck knows, that's the problem. You'd be surprised by the amount of mutt rips floating around.

  On 6/29/2010 at 1:59 AM, Richy said:

  On 6/29/2010 at 1:54 AM, Hanratty said:

  On 6/29/2010 at 1:49 AM, Richy said:

Yeah but fuck knows what kind of shitty transcodes you are downloading.

 

 

um, what do you mean? my 320 mp3s are not legit?

Who the fuck knows, that's the problem. You'd be surprised by the amount of mutt rips floating around.

If you can't tell by listening, then there's no problem.

downloading ae rips is the worst because it is now impossible to tell if the incoherent blips and bleeps are the newest ae release or just your speakers cracking.

By the way, is there any chance of getting slsk to automatically retry failed d/ls?

  On 6/29/2010 at 2:00 AM, the anonymous forumite said:

If you can't tell by listening, then there's no problem.

If you don't have a known legit copy to compare it to, how can you tell?

Well this thread has convinced me to get slsk, I heard some good and some bad things about it and never thought it was worth while.

Who wants to give the quick skinny?

  On 6/29/2010 at 2:24 AM, chassis said:

Who wants to give the quick skinny?

I have to use SSX for OSX, which is a bit shit and not at all intuitive. But if you've been around these things before, it's relatively simple; search for an item, wait a bit for the results to populate, download (usually prior to that you'd want to expand the individual item result if you're ultimately looking for more than just a track. Alternately, find someone with a good connection and good taste and browse their files. ) You download from an individual on soulseek, so be careful not to overdo it.

Also, set up a shared directory.

I can't share anything at the moment, so I suck at life.

  On 6/29/2010 at 2:24 AM, chassis said:

Well this thread has convinced me to get slsk, I heard some good and some bad things about it and never thought it was worth while.

 

Who wants to give the quick skinny?

it is well worth it, just make sure to give as you take. no ratios, just nice people. common sense. it's a basic enough program, easy to use and great for finding popular music as much as it is good for finding all kinds of underground shit. i love the program, been using it for at least 10 years.

  On 6/29/2010 at 2:24 AM, chassis said:

Well this thread has convinced me to get slsk, I heard some good and some bad things about it and never thought it was worth while. Who wants to give the quick skinny?

make sure you get 157 NS 13e

forward your ports

wish list is useful

right click download folder

enjoy chats with users who are bad at english

  On 6/29/2010 at 2:28 AM, baph said:

  On 6/29/2010 at 2:24 AM, chassis said:

Who wants to give the quick skinny?

 

 

I have to use SSX for OSX, which is a bit shit and not at all intuitive. But if you've been around these things before, it's relatively simple; search for an item, wait a bit for the results to populate, download (usually prior to that you'd want to expand the individual item result if you're ultimately looking for more than just a track. Alternately, find someone with a good connection and good taste and browse their files. ) You download from an individual on soulseek, so be careful not to overdo it.

 

Also, set up a shared directory.

 

I can't share anything at the moment, so I suck at life.

If I set up a sharing folder do the tracks in these folders have to be up to a certain standard or do I just label them correctly and let people decide if they want that bit rate?

just label them correctly and let people decide if they want that bit rate.

here's a nicer icon if the default one bothers you Soulseek

Just make sure the tracks are labeled/foldered properly.

edit: 'twas to chassis.

Right after spending aaaaages fucking around to get a static IP and then set up port forwarding I just clicked Automatic Port Forwarding .

Anyway, my music folder at the moment isnt in the best of shape so Ive created a new slsk one. Who wants to give me tips on organizing? At the moment im going with genre>artist>album.

Also Id appreciate if someone would add me to their list, PM me or whatever. Im still in the process of transferring files from my usual music folder to my slsk one. Thanks

Yeah, I love SoulSeek.

I use it to download all my music.

Anyone who uses any-other downloading program is dumb....

itunes keeps all your music very well organized for slsk... juss say'n

  On 6/29/2010 at 6:13 AM, PWSTEAL said:

Anyone who uses any-other downloading program is dumb

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post='1361938]....

I love slsk, I just hate when I download something with really shitty tags. Doesn't happen as much as it did many years ago though.