In general its great but given that ~1% of people in general are fucking insane you run into some weird shit every now and then.I've got this one guy who's been downloading all the Beethoven I have, which is a fair amount, 23 releases but several of those are box sets of complete symphonies or complete string quartets etc. Fair enough though, he wants some Beethoven, thats not strange.But this fucker is downloading the same things over and over again. Why would you do this? Does he think its like Spotify where you have to download something every time you want to listen to it? I cant think of an explanation for this behaviour.
>>128425249>not deleting your entire collection after every listen so that you get new atoms next timengmi
>>128425249I had some dude gatekeep my own tunes I recorded under a dubious moniker and then proceeded to insult me and call me an inbred medievalist when I asked him to unlock the tunes so I could re-retrieve my old stuff. Bogus.
>>128425314padlockers deserve all the worst in the world
>>128425314>call me an inbred medievalistI like his choice of insults tho
>>128425249I always see this stuff about ssqt but I've never stumbled across this behaviorthe weirdest thing that's happened to me is someone downloading my uk drill folder which is only weird because I think I'm one of like 10 people in existence that gives enough of a shit to catalogue this garbage
>>128425344>I think I'm one of like 10 people in existence that gives enough of a shit to catalogue this garbagebased
>>128425249there was this guy who'd pop up every couple weeks and resume dl'ing this prog album I had. his dl speed was modem tier (~1 kbps) and he went at it for literal years. he PMed me Christmas greetings more than once. in the end I think he didn't even manage to dl a full song before my PC died and I lost that account.
>>128425420I had something similar, a guy in Spain who was dling a ~800MB flac collection of classical guitar music at a couple of kbps. after a few days he had <a quarter of it so I PM'd him to see if he wanted a v0 version or something that he could get quicker but very politely he declined and said thanks but no thanks, he wanted the flacs.I didn’t even know you could still get internet that slow, most of Europe has really good digital infrastructure. I guess he was on a mobile connection up in the mountains or something. took him a couple of weeks iirc but he got there in the end
>>128425249I get people linking me their bandcamp sometimes
>>128425501>I didn’t even know you could still get internet that slowI get around ~300-500 kbps now and back in the 2010s I got ~45-50 kpbs on average, and every summer we would get two weeks of the Internet being so slow it was unusable (though technically still on, as the customer help people loved to point out). Living in a rural area with a tech monopoly is what does that.
I redownload albums on soulseek a lot because I have OCD and can't decide if I want FLAC or MP3 ;_;
>>128426577just start collecting flac asapt. still have to convert half of my library to flac after realizing shit rips suck on good headphones
>>128425312kek
my biggest gripe on soulseek is that 80%+ of the search results i get are "REMOTE: FILE NOT SHARED"
>>128425249>be sharing ~80gb of music and some audiobooks in a folder called "Music">try to download new album>automatic block and message appears>goes like "Another lazy scumbag sharing his generic music folder. Blocked!"what the fuck is your problem you cataloguing retard?! Soulseek IS for sharing musicngl dude had a nice collection of misc. media
>those downloads that never leave the queue for some reason so you have to go and find another download>search for the album name and nothing appears, so you have to search for the artist instead and get less focused results >those arseholes who want you to share 10 billion files before downloading
>>128427130>search for the album name and nothing appears, so you have to search for the artist instead and get less focused resultsgo to discogs, get the name of a track from said album, obviously the more distinctive the better, search that instead, dl folder its in. almost always works.
this guy who sets upload speed to 1K/s and close the program as soon as he's done leechingI know him well, he's me
>>128425249>some idiot foreigner blocking you from downloading a release by a local DJ and producer with whom you have drunk at parties and after-parties
Just padlocked all my files
>>128425312>new atoms I need new atoms in my sides now
>congratulations!>your music taste is too obscure for slsk!>you're the ascended white dolphin!
I probably look insane popping up every few months to download more pimsleur language courses that i'll probably never use from the same 2 guys
whenever i see a soulseek thread on here i just want to express a huge amount of gratitude to everyone involved with the programfor a semi autist who likes collecting music it is simply all i could ever want
Is it possible to use slsk without some script kiddy using a cheap exploit to fuck your hard drive? Asking for a friend.
wtf is soulseek? If I want an album I just find it and download it. logo looks like an even gayer version of twitter.
>>128429364Napster for sociopaths
>>128429364eMule for donkeys
>>128427309BASED BASED BASED BASED BASED BASED BASED BASED BASED BASED BASED BASED BASED BASED BASED
>>128429343"Global controls will have to be imposedAnd a world governing body, will be created to enforce themCrises, precipitate change"
>>128427052Stop using Windows XP its 2025 my guy dude bro
>>128425249ever since I put 1 (one) image file in my share folder I've stopped getting the automated "plz share" messages and have barely had any issues since
The more you faggots continue to not share anything, the more padlocks you will see. JUST SHARE ON THE FILE-SHARING NETWORK YOU FUCKING GAG REFLEX
>>128425344 (dubs)Wait was this recently? Might have been me
>>128429222Excellent trips and I agree this is the greatest community of all timeI LOVE YOU SLSK
>>128429222it's sad to know that slsk is like a retirement home for a lot of the files shared there. and when they're gone they're gone gone
>>128425344Isn't the whole point
Oh dear...
>>128425249reminder that the user desgraded tapes is a pedophile and shares cheese pizza
>>128429837pretty recent yeahit was really just exclusives and leaks, some uncensored stuff>>128430006yeah it's just not the kind of genre that typically draws in music collectors though
>>128429816I share one album lolI've never had anyone block me from downloading I think
>>128427968idk, probably share more than one folder, or up the amount of what I was sharing, Im guessing if I had shared something like 500 gigs his script would have let me through but thats literally too much music, no one can listen to 5k, or even 2k albums for 200 gigs if they have a job/life
>>128430442wow italo disco is poppin these days, nice
>>128426608>"collecting" fileslol
uhh you guys are still using this? you know they embed cp into the file metadata right?
>>128432726>not downloading music solely for the purpose of cataloguing it and then never listening to it to show strangers online that you listen to hundreds of gigs of music
>>128425326I don't understand those people, do they get off on people asking them permission to download their shit or something?
>>128430442Didn't /mu/ have a room?
>>128426979FUCK YOU DUDE
shoutout all the users that have massive libraries of common stuff and don't ask for shit in return
>>128432916what else would you call it, retard-kun?
>>128425249How else do you offset the rotational velocity decay of your mp3 files? Asking for a friend btw
>>128437087*velocidensity mb
there's one user who has millions of obscure 90s/00s cds flac rips with b-sides and non-album songs that were never released any other way and he's only online like 1% of the time and no one else has his stufffeels bad, man
>>128437087theres no way, unfortunately. different storage media can slightly lower the rate of data rot in lossy files but nothing can stop it. you should have dl'd lossless from the start. clue is in the name my dude.
>open slsk>download album>close soulseek
>>128437087doesnt the bit rot decay only kick in after a year? just move the files around after 360 days and you'll be fine
>>128427130pissi cuckitini
this one guy's shares, you could only download three files at a time before the download stopped. pausing the download and then unpausing would fix it and let you download another three fileswtf is up with that?
>>128425249same things happened to me with multiple users, can't tell if it's a glitch or if they're just actually insane
>>128433103>do they get off on people asking them permission to download their shit or something?like you wouldn't believe!I think on paper tho it's supposed to be that they're hoping someone will want to trade an album from their wantlist
>>128438750>>128437087remove the disk to let it air out every couple of years. high humidity and dust in the disk lowers the velocidensitythat way you can listen to your mp3 files for many years before you have to download new ones
>>128427913No one wants your shitty albums anyway
>>128425249I have never seen anything strange and I have been using slsk since 2010. Just some users linking me their music.
>>128425314>proceeded to insult me and call me an inbred medievalistlmao dude has some great banter
>>128425249That one douche bag gypsy that demand you pay him between 1-10 dollars to download.He of course also demand to be able to download whatever he wants from everybody else.I once bought a cheap shitty 7inch of some shitty house music he had on his wishlist. I ripped it, re-encoded it to shit, low volume, ripped it in mono you name it, just to piss him off.Motherfucker is too cheap to buy a 2 dollar 7inch he wants...
is this a slsk tech support thread? my search and downloads work totally fine but i can never get uploads to work. ie, it doesn't seem like people can download from me. i gave the program permissions in windows firewall and the fact that downloads work imply to me that my ports work okay too
>>128442557https://canyouseeme.org/try this first to make sure
one time like 10 years ago i had uploaded my voice memos to my music folder somehow (had like singing and who knows what else) and someone downloaded it and i DFE
>>128442696haha, whats dfe stand for though?
>>128442696I was looking for an audiobook one time and came across some journalist's my documents folder who had dictaphone recordings and word docs of interviews he had held with various people
>>128443250died from embarrassment?
[15:31:44] [William Woollard] this is detector plugin #2... 1000 Files/50 Folders
>>128427913nigger
>>128443298thatll be it, cheers
>>128425249>Share entire, meticulously organized music collection on slsk>Too lazy and retarded to open portsIs this worse than padlocking?
>>128444601It’s not an all or nothing type thing. When I share on nicotine (the linux client) i get a shitload more people downloading from me than with soulseek on windows. Sometimes people just can’t connect to each other, I don’t understand the technical aspect of it.
>>128429222Thanks, seeders.>>128429874>greatest communityHave you lurked on a single channel? It certainly is not a great community. It's a den for schizos. I have been looking for a channel to discuss music for years. I have given up and relegated myself to Linux et al.>>128429966Good point. Sharing is caring.
>>128433121As long as I've been there, it has nothing to do with /mu/ except sharing a name.
>>128425249I probably seem weird on soulseek because sometimes I download like 12 rips of the same album to autistically compare them later to make sure I'm not listening to some worse sounding version.
>>128445128>Have you lurked on a single channel? It certainly is not a great community. It's a den for schizosthis reminds me, Mark Dice used to be a regular in the ambient room and was always exceedingly polite to people trying to start shit with him over his conspiracy theories.
Where do you guys get these weirdos? No one has ever sent me a message and I've never interacted with anyone, and I use soulseek all the time
>>128445593I mean its a huge network so any one persons experience isn’t necessarily representative but Im the same, the only interactions Ive ever had with other users are the occasional guy who says thanks after dling something and a one time someone PMd me to let me know that one of the albums I had was a transcode, and he was rightmaybe it depends on your taste too. naturally my own immaculate and enviable library ranges from normal music to highbrow patrician stuff, but if someone's sharing anime soundtracks, lolicore and vocaloid theyre going to attract other bottom feeders and autists arent they
Someone messaged me to say GOING BED SOON LOLOLOLOL when I started downloading his files. Not sure how/what to reply.
>>128430614>degraded tapeshe banned me twice already lol. this faggot only shares shitty rips drone and noise. fuck him.
>>128446446You think that's bad? He called me a nigg*r and later banned me. He's a huge faggot, yes.
>>128427052This is a glitch just double click the file names instead of using Download Folder
>>128429966No blackpilling in a soulseek thread
any luck with beets? seems like its not made for windows users. i cant into cataloguing all my music, anyone made this work?
>>128449360esl moment
>>128442557If your router doesn't have UPNP enabled, you'll need to manually forward the ports SLSK has assigned.
it is fucking insane how many clueless people are sharing their own personal documents like resumes or work things. i even found someone presumably working as a manager or HR at some company with a folder full of dozens of resumes of applicants. please don't share your documents.
>>128451993I only share music as musical notations
search for DCIM -mp3 if you want to look at strangers' personal photographs
I find it amusing that zoomers use p2p clients. I was 10 when Napster launched. You can’t imagine the excitement of downloading songs illegally on a 56k modem. It looked so cool. Those progress bars were straight dopamine. I’ve used every client there ever was. I’m peak Millennial.
>>128452277piracy has had a resurgence in popularity thanks to the enshittification of streaming platforms
>>128452386>enshittdont use that ugly reddit word man
>>128452386Are you guys not aware of how easy it is to spoof Spotify premium?
>>128452463>SpotifyYou'd have to pay me to use that shit and even then I wouldn't
The worst are those who ban you if you don't have your shared files organised and categorised by whatever autistic filing system they deem appropriate. I've had many a sudden "File not shared" halfway through albums from such "people" despite sharing hundreds of thousands of files.
>>128453325what systems are there? all my music is just in E:\Music\[Artist]\[Album]
>>128453391A fellow bracket user.
>>128453391your music disk letter should be at least G
>>128447865I only ever use Download Folder. I've been able to overcome the bug before by Resuming the download from the context menu.
>>128452400It's a perfectly app phrase.
>>128453645*apt
>>128453858Yeah yeah. "Enshitt" isn't correct either.
>>128453891Never said it was.
>>128453939Just a pedantic retard on purpose then?
>>128454036No, just pointing out you're thick.
>>128454071Well it's unbecoming. Fuck off.
>>128454343No, you fuck off neph. And stop leeching you parasite.
>>128454366You are neither older than me nor seed more than me.
>>128451352My new shitty router doesn't even let me connect to it so I can port forward Do new routers come with some sort of safety feature that can be disabled? I've done this before and I can't even get to the admin login screen when I'm connected directly to it through an ethernet cable and it just times out every single time.
>>128445252I do this as well to find the best sounding version of each album. I waste so much time autistically checking the DR database and Steve Hoffman's forums because I hate brickwalled remasters.
>weird shithow about the people that download random voice memos hidden in old itunes libraries?>>128429222based trips. also seconding gratitude>>128442663recently downgraded in internet and oh man my connection keeps timing out so fast this doesn't even work>>128454734I'm in the same boat. but still, saving $50 a month on internet is pretty nice
>download album>3 automated messages from user pop up>brags about how much music he's shared and asks for a paypal donation
>>128452400>rdssad
>>128430442Seems like half of them have been created lately.
>>128452386>resurgence in popularityIf you were not poor. 2010's was the decade in which piracy was the easiest and comfy thanks to streaming.Now, if piracy is becoming as big as the 2000's, we're about to experience hard times.
>>128457964Hard times make good pirates.
I CANT FIND JUJU DISCO BY EMMANUEL PIPPIN CAN ANY1 HELP
I haven't used soulseek in like 15 years, it's crazy too me people still use it, pretty cool thoughIf I really need to download something I usually find it in some russian torrent site
>>128452463like make fun of it?
Is there a soulseek for android?
>>128460621no nigga.
>>128446446isn't this guy a pedophile? someone on reddit doxxed him and said he lives in north carolina lol
I had a nice interaction with a user the other day. Downloaded something from them and got a message. Thought it was some snarky 'share more' thing, but they just wanted to know how I heard about a band I downloaded. Had a nice back and forth it was cool. Literally been using for years and this is the first time I've ever had a real person message me just wanting to talk about music.
>>128425328I'm a substack author and former youtuber who uploaded questionable political, historical and philosophical content. I also played in a few bands as a guitarist and had some solo projects. I have a bit of a reputation.
there's not a single flac of Michael Jackson
>>128465114patently false statement, there are uncountable examples
>>128465160
>>128465185thats not how you search for flacs, thats looking for flac as part of the folder or filename, not including the extensionjust search Michael Jackson [album you want] and look down the list of results
>>128465201that's how I've always searched for flacs and have always found what I was looking for, 0 results on both tabs btw
>>128465254ah ok, same thing happens with Lo Borges, idk whymy search was for "jackson thriller," >2.5k results, many flacssometimes you have to tweak your search termsif you get no results for an artist or album you know should be there try stuff like searching for a track name rather than album name or just a distinctive keyword from artist and/or album title
>>128465201>thats looking for flac as part of the folder or filename, not including the extensionwrong
>>128465324Success! Thanks.
can you tweak sear to only show 48kHz files?
Do you guys use Nicotine+?
>>128468123Yes
A big thank you for the nice posters sharing cool stuff!
>>128438826>>128425249I have heard that there's some new bullshit client floating around and gaining traction that basically functions as a streaming service but it pulls from ss. That might be the cause. >>128432726>no one can listen to 5k, or even 2k albums for 200 gigs if they have a job/lifeI have over half a terrabyte and I've listened to all of it. Very easy to do if you listen to music while driving or cooking or working out.
>>128469257>new bullshit client floating around and gaining traction that basically functions as a streaming service but it pulls from ssLeechers ruining everything, as always
>>128425249I would hunt down and skin this faggot if the punishment for it wasnt so disproportionally high.
>>128445157sounds like home
>>128443281Anything interesting?>>128429222Seconded.
>>128470238I thought so too, and I sat there for years. Turns out it isn't home at all.
>>128452463I actually like music, no thanks
>>128465114some big names are blocked iirc. if you search for the album name it works but not the artist
>>128468123I do. Not perfect but much better than the official client.
>>128468123I do, Mint here
>>128443250>>128443298NTA but usually it means delete fucking everything
bump
>>128470302nah nothing particularly interesting, just some local newspaper type stuff
>>128472658ENOUGH WITH THE REDDIT ACRONYMS
>>128477633it means "not that anon", newfag
I use slskd and have it running as a syatem daemon in my homeserver
>>128478818I don’t know what that means but cool
>>128478831https://github.com/slskd/slskd
>>128478868what does it do
>>128470228what a fag
>>128427913your rarest album is by sean kingston
Mark of the beast
>>128478868did they implement a wishlist? I've been following this client for a while but it's a dealbreaker for me. I'm still running nicotine+ over vnc.
>>128480669wat?
>>128437284a year or so ago i found an account that i think was associated with a release group that had rips of like like every comedy series no matter how obscure, all different countries. i go back after downloading a few seasons and they've been offline ever since.
>>128465254This happens to me on Nicotine+ when I try to look up Gorillaz, but if I search up Plastic Beach, it shows up
>>128465254>>128488058Some search terms (mostly artist names) are disallowed due to copyright complaints and will not return any results
>>128425249there's this guy who keeps trying to download an EP from me which i renamed because i made a typo in the artist's namei messaged him a few times and explained the situation and every time he kept saying thanks but still continues to download the wrong named EPhe's been at this for over 6 years by now>just fucking rename it back for him, you douchebag!nada. at this point i want to see how much determination he has
people keep replying to my automated message telling them to share more filesusually apologising but a few trying to start shit with melike nigger you weren't even blocked but now you are
>>128442696did you make it onto this?
nigga just hop on rutracker lmaowtf r u looking for that's not in there
>>128425249>has the highest quality audio file>blocks it from everyone>doesn't block it, so you download it>they block youfucking faggots
