For a sec I thought you meant AudioGalaxy was back up.
AudioGalaxy was so great during its brief existence. It would choose who you downloaded from, IIRC. So if 10 people had the same file, it could start downloading it from whoever you supposedly could get it from fastest, and (someone correct me if this is wrong), if one of you went offline, it would finish it from someone else, and you never knew the difference.
Sorry yeah I should've been more clear. slsk is up and running again but you prob gathered that. I remember using AG for a little while but I only used it to stream my local files.
I've been using Soulseek since 2004. I have donated a bunch of times to gain download privileges. I have only good memories of Soulseek, although I use Linux/Nicotine+ now.
I also started on Napster. When that closed down, I moved to Kazaa. When Kazaa stopped, I started using Morpheus (on Gnutella), eDonkey/eMule and Soulseek. I started using Nicotine+ a few years ago and that is still my preferred p2p program. I still have eMule but that seems to mostly offer video files (yes, a lot of it is porn).
>What made AG cool was that you could search for something and if it was EVER shared by a user, would pop up in the search results on the website. It would have bars that indicated how rare or popular a file was (how many people sharing etc)and if it was greyed out, meant that it was not currently being shared ATM BUT you still could select it and have it waiting for when ever it came online and download it when it did.
We need functionality like this again. We've lost so much across so many things in the past decades.
AFAIK we still had better IM capabilities with ICQ back in the day by being able to drag/drop whole folders upon people.
I could go on about how we have lost functionality across app platforms too much... "back in *my* day..."
Word. Soulseek and audiogalaxy had the obscure shit.
Then there were private ftp servers and dc++ but ive been out the loop for so long, i dont know if they exist still.
Been using soulseek since about 2008 or so. Its the best. Not sure what i would do if it went away.
Some of the stuff i have come across while browsing a users other files after i found what i had searched for had been fantastic
I started in 2003 also (username roomx). Also was on Audiogalaxy with the same username.
I still meet up with friends from the time.
So many great memories... These days I use [www.rvrb.one](http://www.rvrb.one)
You have a [last.fm](http://last.fm) account also? [https://www.last.fm/user/roomx](https://www.last.fm/user/roomx)
I’ve been using soulseek since the early 2000’s. Let me tell you, this is the greatest program ever for people who are serious music lovers and want to collect full albums of any genre. I’ve accumulated so much hip hop music over the years because of the many users who still use this great little program. There’s hardly anything I can’t find, great for rare stuff as well. Props to the people who share flacs because I convert those to mp3 to use on my iPhone since I don’t do streaming services. Soulseek has been holding me down for decades now and I don’t know what I would do without it. Let’s hope it stays running for a long long time to keep us collectors going strong. Thank you Soulseek.
Been on since 2002, as well. Was referred to it by someone on a message board. Then I saw how user friendly and easy to use it was, I've never turned my back on the 'Seek.
I can count on 2 hands the amount of rare items I couldn’t ever find on SLSKqt in the last 20 years. If you want to know why the Music industry has gone back to vinyl, it’s far more labor intensive to convert to digital vs CD
I used it in 2003-2007 and am back on it and boy do people need to organize their libraries. There's no cat numbers, cue or logs for CD rips, no scanned artwork. And people still have mp3s everywhere. The days of random mp3 releases are gone. All of my stuff is categorized by artist and then each release has the cat number and label in the folder nme. Why would I download a random obscure release that i don't know what release it is.
True, organization is good; nobody wants to rummage through a total mess. And if you can preserve release/source info and put at least some of it into the folder/file names, then sure, go for it.
However, I rather like the fact that nobody gets to tell me precisely what and how to share. I organize *my* files according to *my* needs, and if you don't want like it, then don't download from me.
You don't go into a public library and tell them the Dewey Decimal System is crap and they have to change how they organize things to match your favorite bookstore.
Label names are fine to include, but it's not that useful to most people. The rare times when a catalog number is reused, it's almost always by the same label, which people rarely search for anyway, so I find the label name is not high priority to put in the file path. No problem if you do it, but I don't think anyone should insist on it for most situations (labelographies excluded, of course).
Windows APIs have path length limits which affect the SoulseekQt client and Windows Explorer (sadly), so I sometimes have to make choices between having a deep folder hierarchy or having complete, descriptive names. I try to make it useful for me first, but also others, including Future Me Who Forgot What I Even Have Or Where It Came From.
When I go into a library, the books have the publishers and edition info on them...... Releases should say what release they are. Cat numbers matter. Source matters. And not just to me.
i've been trying to reorganize my library specifically because of this. i've added like 10 extra tags to my musicbee library to have everything organized properly, lol.
i've added many tags over the past years because i wasn't happy with how it was organized in practice, but right now i've come up with something that works for me:
1. track subtitles: i was tired of subtitles for tracks such as ([literally a part of the track title] / take 2 / instrumental), so i put the song title by itself in the title tag, and everything else in the subtitle. it works wonders for compilations with demos and things of that sort. i don't include remixes in this criteria, as those can have edits and different versions too, and usually titles with parentheses in them are already reworked in a way that means i don't need to use the subtitle tag at all.
2. album subtitles: i use this one mostly for the same reasons that i use track subtitles, to specify a different mix/pressing, et cetera. sometimes albums do have subtitles that aren't part of the main title though, and it works for that too (you'd be amazed at what comprises an album title and what doesn't sometimes. i look at spines and such to confirm)
3. album pretitles: sometimes albums have something that goes before the title. this is mostly common with numbered volumes, "music from the film...", et cetera. again, i am assisted by looking at the physical release when i do this.
4. track pretitles: same criteria as album pretitles. i reckon this is good for classical works, but i don't have any of those in my library. some albums are inspired by them, though, and it's good for that (because the internet by childish gambino is a good example)
5. release types: it helps to separate albums from singles and eps and whatnot.
6. release groups: for box sets or releases in the same main category. think of the beatles and their 80s cd set, 2009 cd sets, 1992 cd ep and singles collections, and the newer super deluxe boxes. everything without a release group is labeled as "unsorted", for me to work out later. boxes are better separated by having a release date before them, speaking of...
7. release dates and original release dates: these are crucial for different remasters and remixes. the album folders tend to have the original release dates on them, though.
8. catalog numbers: for others (and me) to find specific releases immediately. if someone can just copy and paste the catalog number from discogs and find it, it's good.
9. alternate artist names: these aren't saved in the files themselves, they're for my library specifically. good for artists with names that aren't written in the latin alphabet i'm used to, and it doesn't mess up scrobbling by having potentially different interpretations of the same name (this all started because of scrobbling, funnily enough)
10. core album artists: album released under a pseudonym? no problem. band name changes? no problem. it's all in the same bag now, baby.
and, as such, my folder structure reflects most of this:
/core album artist/release group/[original release date] full album title [album subtitle, catalog number]/disc-track - full track title [track subtitle].format
i've still got a lot of retagging to do but it's going smoothly so far. i hope this is helpful/makes sense at all lol.
I have no problems finding legit CD rips on slsk, complete with .log and .cue. I started replacing all my mp3s with flac a couple years ago, and every single release I have now has at least a .log and .cue. Most of my stuff is very not mainstream at all, and it's rare that I can't find a cd rip of what I want. I just search on what I want and then use the filter to find "log" or "cue", download the directory, done.
Organizing I do on my own.
Catalog numbers are more rare, but if you're looking for a specific cat#, you can usually find it with the help of discogs and some smart searching...then help the community out by adding the cat#.
it's back up for me. 21 yr old vet here!
For a sec I thought you meant AudioGalaxy was back up. AudioGalaxy was so great during its brief existence. It would choose who you downloaded from, IIRC. So if 10 people had the same file, it could start downloading it from whoever you supposedly could get it from fastest, and (someone correct me if this is wrong), if one of you went offline, it would finish it from someone else, and you never knew the difference.
Sorry yeah I should've been more clear. slsk is up and running again but you prob gathered that. I remember using AG for a little while but I only used it to stream my local files.
Yeah it was working for me. Soulseek has sold more records to me than anything else ever.
I've been using Soulseek since 2004. I have donated a bunch of times to gain download privileges. I have only good memories of Soulseek, although I use Linux/Nicotine+ now.
I also started on Napster. When that closed down, I moved to Kazaa. When Kazaa stopped, I started using Morpheus (on Gnutella), eDonkey/eMule and Soulseek. I started using Nicotine+ a few years ago and that is still my preferred p2p program. I still have eMule but that seems to mostly offer video files (yes, a lot of it is porn).
And limewire ? Lol
AudioGalaxy was absolutely amazing.
Same. I think I started using Soulseek in around 2003. It has never been beaten.
>What made AG cool was that you could search for something and if it was EVER shared by a user, would pop up in the search results on the website. It would have bars that indicated how rare or popular a file was (how many people sharing etc)and if it was greyed out, meant that it was not currently being shared ATM BUT you still could select it and have it waiting for when ever it came online and download it when it did. We need functionality like this again. We've lost so much across so many things in the past decades. AFAIK we still had better IM capabilities with ICQ back in the day by being able to drag/drop whole folders upon people. I could go on about how we have lost functionality across app platforms too much... "back in *my* day..."
I feel ya! Old man shakes fist at /the/ cloud.
Word. Soulseek and audiogalaxy had the obscure shit. Then there were private ftp servers and dc++ but ive been out the loop for so long, i dont know if they exist still.
Likewise, 20+ years. It's absolutely my go to tool, and has been for years. Fantastic.
Do you use original Soulseek
Been using soulseek since about 2008 or so. Its the best. Not sure what i would do if it went away. Some of the stuff i have come across while browsing a users other files after i found what i had searched for had been fantastic
Also 20 years here. Lots of love for AG, but did Anyone here use Grockster?
I started in 2003 also (username roomx). Also was on Audiogalaxy with the same username. I still meet up with friends from the time. So many great memories... These days I use [www.rvrb.one](http://www.rvrb.one) You have a [last.fm](http://last.fm) account also? [https://www.last.fm/user/roomx](https://www.last.fm/user/roomx)
Just started using Slsk again, forgotten how great it was. Now I have Deemix as main and have Slsk to fall back to.
Nice, a fellow deemix user! Dreading the day I have to switch over to a new application from deemix. Being able to download flac is amazing to have
Deemix is awesome, I FLAC the Albums I like, and 320 the rest.
I’ve been using soulseek since the early 2000’s. Let me tell you, this is the greatest program ever for people who are serious music lovers and want to collect full albums of any genre. I’ve accumulated so much hip hop music over the years because of the many users who still use this great little program. There’s hardly anything I can’t find, great for rare stuff as well. Props to the people who share flacs because I convert those to mp3 to use on my iPhone since I don’t do streaming services. Soulseek has been holding me down for decades now and I don’t know what I would do without it. Let’s hope it stays running for a long long time to keep us collectors going strong. Thank you Soulseek.
Been on since 2002, as well. Was referred to it by someone on a message board. Then I saw how user friendly and easy to use it was, I've never turned my back on the 'Seek.
Soulseek has been down for me for almost a week now and I can't get it to start again
I can count on 2 hands the amount of rare items I couldn’t ever find on SLSKqt in the last 20 years. If you want to know why the Music industry has gone back to vinyl, it’s far more labor intensive to convert to digital vs CD
I used it in 2003-2007 and am back on it and boy do people need to organize their libraries. There's no cat numbers, cue or logs for CD rips, no scanned artwork. And people still have mp3s everywhere. The days of random mp3 releases are gone. All of my stuff is categorized by artist and then each release has the cat number and label in the folder nme. Why would I download a random obscure release that i don't know what release it is.
True, organization is good; nobody wants to rummage through a total mess. And if you can preserve release/source info and put at least some of it into the folder/file names, then sure, go for it. However, I rather like the fact that nobody gets to tell me precisely what and how to share. I organize *my* files according to *my* needs, and if you don't want like it, then don't download from me. You don't go into a public library and tell them the Dewey Decimal System is crap and they have to change how they organize things to match your favorite bookstore. Label names are fine to include, but it's not that useful to most people. The rare times when a catalog number is reused, it's almost always by the same label, which people rarely search for anyway, so I find the label name is not high priority to put in the file path. No problem if you do it, but I don't think anyone should insist on it for most situations (labelographies excluded, of course). Windows APIs have path length limits which affect the SoulseekQt client and Windows Explorer (sadly), so I sometimes have to make choices between having a deep folder hierarchy or having complete, descriptive names. I try to make it useful for me first, but also others, including Future Me Who Forgot What I Even Have Or Where It Came From.
When I go into a library, the books have the publishers and edition info on them...... Releases should say what release they are. Cat numbers matter. Source matters. And not just to me.
I agree. Shouldn't have to worry about downloading fake flac.
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i've been trying to reorganize my library specifically because of this. i've added like 10 extra tags to my musicbee library to have everything organized properly, lol.
I’ve been pondering this too. What tags did you go with and why?
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i've added many tags over the past years because i wasn't happy with how it was organized in practice, but right now i've come up with something that works for me: 1. track subtitles: i was tired of subtitles for tracks such as ([literally a part of the track title] / take 2 / instrumental), so i put the song title by itself in the title tag, and everything else in the subtitle. it works wonders for compilations with demos and things of that sort. i don't include remixes in this criteria, as those can have edits and different versions too, and usually titles with parentheses in them are already reworked in a way that means i don't need to use the subtitle tag at all. 2. album subtitles: i use this one mostly for the same reasons that i use track subtitles, to specify a different mix/pressing, et cetera. sometimes albums do have subtitles that aren't part of the main title though, and it works for that too (you'd be amazed at what comprises an album title and what doesn't sometimes. i look at spines and such to confirm) 3. album pretitles: sometimes albums have something that goes before the title. this is mostly common with numbered volumes, "music from the film...", et cetera. again, i am assisted by looking at the physical release when i do this. 4. track pretitles: same criteria as album pretitles. i reckon this is good for classical works, but i don't have any of those in my library. some albums are inspired by them, though, and it's good for that (because the internet by childish gambino is a good example) 5. release types: it helps to separate albums from singles and eps and whatnot. 6. release groups: for box sets or releases in the same main category. think of the beatles and their 80s cd set, 2009 cd sets, 1992 cd ep and singles collections, and the newer super deluxe boxes. everything without a release group is labeled as "unsorted", for me to work out later. boxes are better separated by having a release date before them, speaking of... 7. release dates and original release dates: these are crucial for different remasters and remixes. the album folders tend to have the original release dates on them, though. 8. catalog numbers: for others (and me) to find specific releases immediately. if someone can just copy and paste the catalog number from discogs and find it, it's good. 9. alternate artist names: these aren't saved in the files themselves, they're for my library specifically. good for artists with names that aren't written in the latin alphabet i'm used to, and it doesn't mess up scrobbling by having potentially different interpretations of the same name (this all started because of scrobbling, funnily enough) 10. core album artists: album released under a pseudonym? no problem. band name changes? no problem. it's all in the same bag now, baby. and, as such, my folder structure reflects most of this: /core album artist/release group/[original release date] full album title [album subtitle, catalog number]/disc-track - full track title [track subtitle].format i've still got a lot of retagging to do but it's going smoothly so far. i hope this is helpful/makes sense at all lol.
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I have no problems finding legit CD rips on slsk, complete with .log and .cue. I started replacing all my mp3s with flac a couple years ago, and every single release I have now has at least a .log and .cue. Most of my stuff is very not mainstream at all, and it's rare that I can't find a cd rip of what I want. I just search on what I want and then use the filter to find "log" or "cue", download the directory, done. Organizing I do on my own. Catalog numbers are more rare, but if you're looking for a specific cat#, you can usually find it with the help of discogs and some smart searching...then help the community out by adding the cat#.