I just found out about it the other day. Its literally p2p file sharing. You can let people visit designated directories on your local file system and go visit theirs. Its fast and personable. They even have an AOL IM thing going on. I found out about it because they’ve got a lot of music and its relatively difficult to find good music torrents. I thought it was basically transmission or another torrent client, but its totally different. Linux Mint has the FOSS client Nicotine+ in their repository. The whole process was quick and easy. Find me there under the same user name.
Yes, I always found the most obscure shit ever on soulseek. Whenever I can’t find any album/artist on thepiratebay, rutracker or similar, I always resort to soulseek, and it never disappoints.
My grandmother once asked me if I could make her a CD because a specific CD stopped working and it was a 1974 compilation of Chico Buarque songs, so I downloaded up to 3 torrents of Chico Buarque’s discography (between 50 and 70 albums each), and it was in none of them. I could only find them in Soulseek and I made my grandmother smile that afternoon.
If you can’t find it in soulseek, it probably never existed
true, at least digitally