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
If you can’t find it in soulseek, it probably never existed
true, at least digitally
never heard of it, it sounds like an interesting alternative to typical torrenting
Love Soulseek, it’s a big fuck you to private trackers
Good thing you are using Nicotine+, SoulSeek’s official client has been dead for years and it’s also closed source. But yeah, it’s basically Ares, Napster, or Gnutella but it somehow didn’t gained much attention so it hasn’t been killed by companies.
I’ve heard of it but not used it yet.
Can’t believe more people don’t know about it. I’ve been using it for 20 years now.
That’s insane I felt it had to be something new
Yep. When Napster went down, it was Kazaa, and when that folded, I moved on to Soulseek. It came out at the same time or right before Limewire lol. it ran just fine on 450mhz cpu, 128MB ram.
i didn’t even realize soulseek was still around. i used it back in hs 20 years ago
I think I used it once to find some obscure demos of music I like but for the most part I can find everything through torrents. Rutracker is great for music most of the time.
Do you know what, if anything it has over alternatives like fopnu or darkmx?
I could hit the websites and do a side by side feature list I guess, but I’d like a perspective on the experience. Easier/harder to find things, more/fewer peers, some particular chat feature you love/hate etc.
Never heard of these platforms. Did you work out how they compare? For me the draw of slsk is finding almost anything, including very obscure music, because of its dedicated userbase of filehoarders. Do you think the other platforms could offer that? I always like knowing of alternatives
I have not bothered to give soulseek a shit yet, sorry ;p I will say that what mentioned are more general content than music specific.
Yeah I love Soulseek
I used to use nicotine+ on Linux in high school for everything I couldn’t find torrents for. About to download it again rn, I totally forgot about it 😅
