How dead is Soulseek these days? Have I missed the gravy train completely?
I'm new to it and started using it recently because I haven't gotten into RED yet and know it will take me forever to build up the buffer I need to download some vinyl rips I've been after. Their selection seems way more limited than advertised.
I know you should go on chat rooms and ask for stuff but even then it's like a graveyard. I haven't successfully had a single person add me to their userlist
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almost as dead as your future
>m-muh pirated (((content)))
Go to the library you fucking zoomer dunce.
I love getting music from my library.
Hooray! Music in french and four copies of "Oasis' (What's the Story) Morning Glory?"
I would love soulseek with segmented downloading. I feel like the only reason they have a queue system is to have an incentive for donors.
most retarded post on Jow Forums right now
I thought most libraries had Overdrive for awhile now and you check out ebooks/songs/videos through the app
still alive and kicking, I literally spent the day downloading stuff.
>I know you should go on chat rooms and ask for stuff but even then it's like a graveyard. I haven't successfully had a single person add me to their userlist
it's not really, necessary in 10+ years I spoke with max 4-5 people I didn't know irl.
try rutracker before red too if you want torrents
I wish there was a headless version with a client too.
yeah but is it lossless music?
It's good for popular shit it seems, but I think anything more than 10ft below the surface becomes only available by friending people.
I haven't had a ton of luck with RUtracker for the same reason. I'll give it a shot more often, thanks.
You can get any album ever made with inter-library loan.
this desu
>having emm pee threes in current year
>having a cdrom to rip them with
Its great for old school hip hop which is all I use it for.
Its pretty easy ot get what I want from there.
But again, i don't listen to zoomer onions shit.
Any albums you'd recommend in particular? Especially ones you can't get off deezer
I use soulseek like every two days, what are you even doing
I still
I just started using it, really pissed I hadn't looked into it earlier. I'd always assumed it was just a tracker
wait till you find out about dc++
this. soulseek is very much alive and i never struggle to find high-quality music on it.
I used it a few months ago to burn a mix CD for my aunt. It's even better than before with quality of life features
>dc++
what do people share with this?
i use to share trance music, i figure it is mostly music
found a whole bunch of unreleased/rare duster albums recently on there. i guess it works.
>Want rare high quality music
>Use Ru.Tr
It's just easier
I've not found a trance (I assume you're talking pre 2000) song
it serves a purpose if you have a lot of people downloading from you all the time, makes it fair so one person can't just eat up a slot for themselves for days
there is one
I've been using SS for nearly 10 years and have only once had this problem. If anything thre's lots of music not on soulseek, the only play I find it is fresh off soundcloud or bandcamp, I rip and upload all of it myself.
fuck torrents
gonna hijack this thread real quick actually
I have a homeserver/NAS/seedbox that downloads and stores my music. Was thinking I wanted to help out Soulseek and have my library on share 24/7, instead of just whenever I remember to open the client on my desktop. But that's not like torrenting on a private tracker or anything, so it's probably best to have some protection. Tor is what immediately comes to mind, and while I know it's a mess for bittorrent, the reasons don't *seem* to carry over to Soulseek (the protocol doesn't use UDP, your naked IP doesn't have to be shared with peers and there's no central tracker to get info off of), but that being said I'm still unsure. Is anyone familiar with how Soulseek plays with Tor?
>so one person can't just eat up a slot for themselves for days
Sharing an anecdote.
[Jul 23 3:57:35 am][me] Sean why is your download speed so slow, you clog the queue badly this way! Please fix!
[Jul 23 4:01:53 am][me] if you don't cut that out I'm going to have to block you :< I'll check my chat tomorrow!
[Jul 23 4:28:46 am][2longsean] I just started using soulseek, and I dont know why the speed is so slow.
[Jul 23 4:28:58 am][2longsean] Maybe it's because the poor network of my dormitory, I think I can not fix it.
[Jul 23 4:29:15 am][2longsean] I've removed all downloads, so sorry to cause you trouble.
[Jul 23 1:08:58 pm][me] aww :< If you give me a list of what you want I could upload them somewhere else for you. let me know if you want that.
Often times, they can't help it. It seems like we need better infrastructure and protocols. The combination of bad physical systems and bad software practices combined, sets us back to baud rates. In current year.
I use it regularly and I am sharing a nas folder with all my music in it about 500gbs of albums/songs etc. works for me...any good alternatives?
soulseek is more accessible, but dc++ is better from a technology standpoint.
I have a nas server that shares terabytes of house music. I'm lurking in a room for over 15 years and have a friendlist where we discuss what to buy if our internet fu powers fail and we really want something. I don't know how new people use soulseek. Just join a room. Also vpn is a must out there. Not because of the law, but some rude people don't like us sharing things for free.
Same. It works well enough for me. And anything I get from anywhere else is basically automatically shared, so people get my entire collection.
Regardless of if I rename it, tag it, etc. Unlike with torrents where it's restricted to a swarm, a specific way.
That being said, there's alternatives both old and new that don't have these restraints, while also having more benefits.
As mentioned, (extended)dc is one. The feature of sourcing peers from multiple hubs and the dht alone is leaps ahead and that technology is ancient.
It seems like people are taking these concepts and applying them in less hacky ways with modern projects though.
While a lot of the network concepts where great in older software, the clients where always fucked up somehow because everything was unofficial extension on top of another. No standards. Today it's a little different. So I hope people make some nice p2p clients that might supersede slsk. I don't think it's too far off.
but also
there is some obscure bandcamp stuff that I can't find, but im sure its like that on most sharing platforms.
Stupid question I remember installing this program a while back. Wtf does it do again?
P2P file sharing network with a nice UI.
Most people on it are dicks, that ban you from downloading their files for stupid reasons.
>hurr durr you don't have any music that interests me
I have my music on external storage at home, if I want to download anything from my laptop when I'm away, good luck with that.
Also, there's too many youtube rips
>mp3 320kbps
Now I just use Deezeloader for most stuff and search forums for animu and gaimu osts.
The only people I exclude are empty share users. I expect people to at least share their own download folder.
Not that this isn't easily bypassed, but still.
thats neat how did you graph your music like that? I'd love to keep stats of what I listen to and such but im not using last.fm i wish there was something I could put on my home-server (ubuntu) that would keep count of shit i played on any of my computers / devices.
In some European countries RIAA like organizations will download something from you and drag you to court. They cannot do that if they share music with rights themselves. Now that i use a vpn i still block anyone that not share. I think Nicotine does it with a script thingy
my deezloader stopped working when i upgraded to win10 could you be an helpful user and tell me where the correct file is and how I can sign up again without hiccups deezloader was the best.
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>I'd love to keep stats of what I listen to and such but im not using last.fm
I wrote my own extension for Foobar2000 that does something similar. I basically rely on the media player to keep track of it all, and the extension just exports it in real time.
I think there's another plugin that does this at an interval too. Then you can just interpreter and render that data however you want.
I send it from the media player to a socket to one of my server machines which parses it and renders it in html.
I recommend the same for your own media player(s) if you can extend them (sdk or oss)
My ISP used to instal this program to everyone and tell them how to use it. It was still in the days of international internet caps.
Didn't know it was still active.
check deezloader remix on notabug.org and follow instructions
image semi related
Exporting audio and metadata to the server to render a web player for when I'm not home, or if friends want to hear what I'm listening to.
tml3nr / Deezloader-Remix2 or RemixDevs / DeezloaderRemix version?
Where does scramoucha live
That cocksucker needs to die for his crimes against my search results
>he doesn't have access to decent private trackers
o i am laffin
>not knowing that RED has all the old school hip hop you want and even obscure ass indie rap from the 90's
lyl
These are my favourite albums
I highly doubt that I can get anything like this at the public library.
soulseek is still very active, the only difference is the chat rooms are slightly less active now days than they were back in teh golden era, but as far as search results for mp3s there is still TONS of stuff. actually as far as search results go its even better than it was back in the day since there are more 320 rips, flac, and wav files.
the russian public trackers have literally everything ever made
i use Soulseek every once in a while to download a flac album. the only things i can't find are super obscure things like a flac rip of Bathtub Shitter.
last time I used slsk I was outright banned from 2 uploaders, no idea why, I shared my modest 100 song collection
I've given up downloading and collecting music long ago
End yourself nigger
>I wrote my own extension for Foobar2000 that does something similar.
Doxxed but also marked
Works on my machine.
how much do you have to share?
keep most of my music on an external
install "nicotine" on Loonix
and find out.
>Doxxed but also marked
?
I haven't published it. I found working with Visual Studios a pain in the ass and it was sort of a requirement for the Foobar SDK. So the code isn't exactly good enough to distribute.
Disclaimer: Visual Studio is much better today.
So share the external drive, silly
I just use Deezloader and jpopsuki
just search whatever you're looking for and make it into a wishlist search and leave it open for days so it can search users from different regions when they come online. often have to do that for rarer stuff, might take anywhere from hours to months to get a hit, but if someone has it you'll find it that way.
don't bother dealing with scum traders who have all of their files locked. they won't speak to you and you definitely don't have anything they want.
>search earth wind & fire
>only a few torrents that are vinyl rips
>search crosby stills & nash vinyl
>only deja vu
etc etc
Joining a room doesn't immediately grant you access to more peoples files, correct? they still have to add you I think
You're holding it wrong
I've only talked to 1 person and it was only cause he thanked me for having an album
Nice boomer. Into old hair metal.
Anyways mostly I use rutracker if I want something good, but slsk can be fun if you want either rare or fun stuff.
This, I even got a FLAC copy of Harverd Dropout first day.
>It's good for popular shit it seems
Seems to me you don't know shit about Soulseek
SS it's what really, REALLY, music connaisseurs use
Of course I don't mean 25 year olds bragging about their music libraries on flac, I mean old timers
But you know, Soulseek it's not gonna miss you so move along
Working fine for me. I've been using it frequently for about two months to download stuff like city pop, bossa nova, game/anime OST's. I don't find what I'm looking for about 10-15% of the time, but I do look for some rare stuff.
up
>tfw have a folder called "boomers" filled with stuff like acdc, frank sinatra, johnny chass etc pretty much the full discography of many huge artist/bands from mfw browsing the shares of all the boomers who download from me
seeing how all these boomers organise their music and files is a crackup. some have EVERYTHING on their computer shared.
why do I keep hearing about this person. I can't add them to my userlist. I know of OOBE records who is a dickhead, banned me after downloading more than a few things. Fortunately there has only been one time where they where the only source of music I wanted.
You mean like they just shared C: ? That's fucking hilarious
Exit when your upload queue is empty is the single best feature that should be standard for all clients of this type.
i got everything I want from soulseek so far
zoomers do it as well. Tripje J radio had some unearthed group playing music to get their big break, not signed anywhere or anything, onyl rips online where crappy radio rips of 1 track. Turns out they used soulseek and accidentally shared their in-production music folder. I got all their unreleased WAVs and several 'still in production tracks' from them.
Anyone here host a large library with a gigabit connection? How many slots can you have open at once before it starts to slow you down too much? I imagine having an HDD would be a bottleneck with too many reads at once.
Is eevryone here on the /mu/ channel?
If any of you have good collections of citypop, shoegaze, electro swing or breakbeat pls add/message me, username is foxbtw. Then let me download your whole library.
>there is one
how is it called, museek?
I didn't manage to compile that one and I thought it was dead
Tried new client and it was crashing all the time. Old one works fine. Also:
>not sharing single file
>downloading everything
So far nobody blocked me from downloading, maybe my tastes are still too mainstream...
autismos who block shareless downloaders are actually pretty rare. I share everything on my server, but when I download for myself I do it on my laptop, which has nothing on it so I always download with no shares. It's rare enough to even get a "no shares" message, I never get banned.
The correct attitude to take towards Soulseek is to share only patrician music and freely give to fellow persons of elevated taste
I share my anime and movies and shit too. With like 10TB of media I upload from all 10 slots, 24/7.
I wish people who stop releasing new encodes in fucking mp3. Not that it really matters in the long run I suppose. I can't hear the difference once it gets to 192kbps and compressed music really doesn't take up a lot of space. being able to sound transparent at 120kbps AAC/opus or whatever doesn't matter. Still mp3 has been considered outdated for years now.
Not him but I just got blocked by a user because I was apparently not sharing enough despite not one else having issues (to be fair I'm only sharing two albums, but I've been needing to get the rest from my old laptop and iTunes).
I go into his user info page and there's this huge autistic rant about sharing files. It was quite a laugh.
post their username
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>1.3Gb of pirated coca cola jingles
What level of ancap is this?
My best filesharing experience was on WinMX, where I discovered all sorts of illegal and legal porn back in the early 2000's. Damn I miss that experience of downloading oddly named files and having no idea what I was going to end up with, or finding treasure trove collections of stuff I never thought I'd find.
