Is soulseek anygood for music downloads?

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Posted by Aldrian on Sep-01-2002 19:48:

Is soulseek anygood for music downloads?

im currently using winmx but it get limited at times. im looking for info on soulseek. any users out there and what are your opinions

Posted by trancemandan on Sep-01-2002 19:51:

hi there, yes soulseek is great for alot of sets and other tunes.
Especially Progressive stuff

Posted by Mr.Mystery on Sep-01-2002 20:41:

Meh.

Tried it for the first time last night.

It was ugly, performed poorly and didn't find any of the tunes I was after.

Posted by noikeee on Sep-01-2002 21:23:

bah.. can't use the software.

in the start it asks me to choose a server from the list, no server appears on the list, and if I click cancel it gives me a typical illegal operation.

direct connect is the best in the after-AG era.

Posted by smh on Sep-01-2002 21:45:

I find around 50% of the traxx im lookin for, its the next best thing afta DC

Posted by djrichy on Sep-01-2002 22:00:

DC kicks ass when it works!

Posted by sly on Sep-01-2002 22:13:

I just started using SS and it has worked great for me!

Posted by Technaut on Sep-01-2002 22:17:

SS is good you just gotta leave it running for a while to get the files you want, because of server problems I think a lotta users think its dead like AG and dunno thats its moved servers.

man ive got about a gig of westbam stuff which was defo not on AG...so its all good for me

Posted by CortexBomb on Sep-01-2002 22:22:

I've had few complaints with SS...it's my primary source of music files since the AG shut down, and so far my experience has been a positive one.

Yes, if you're looking for rare tracks it's not nearly as good as AG was, but what do you expect? SS is still a fairly journeyman program, as more people join the community the selection will naturally get better.

I'll put it this way, it's at least worth the trial d/l IMHO...it certainly beats the Gnutella progs in my experience...

Posted by Technaut on Sep-01-2002 22:35:

quote:
Originally posted by CortexBomb
it's at least worth the trial d/l

damn straight!

1st time I DL SS ages ago I hated the damn thing..... Then one day I was bored and gave it another try, now I quite like it

A few other ppl i now have done the same thing

Posted by Luke Terry on Sep-01-2002 22:43:

its mint and asks if u want cyber every time

Posted by Zombie0915 on Sep-02-2002 01:52:

soulseek is quite nice, it will get better over time i think. I like how its mostly electronic, i wish i woulda discovered it earlier

Posted by flystyler on Sep-02-2002 10:45:

Well i only use private ftps now, and i seem to be doing ok, heh
WHO FUCKING CARES, DONT USE KAZAA IST WANK!

Posted by b|p|3m on Sep-02-2002 11:27:

Soulseek is quite good especially for live trance video. The only problem is the big queue to download.

Posted by PatMcGroin on Sep-02-2002 11:34:

where the hell is the installation file to download??

from download.com it just keeps sending me to: http://www.ez-search.com/default.php?stat=yes

wtf

Posted by b|p|3m on Sep-02-2002 11:54:

http://www.slsk.org/

Posted by PatMcGroin on Sep-02-2002 12:29:

quote:
Originally posted by b|p|3m
http://www.slsk.org/

thank you

Posted by Cosmic on Sep-02-2002 15:55:

You can find a lot, although it takes ages to download......

Posted by Tsunami One on Sep-02-2002 16:03:

one problem that will prevent it becoming good QUES

Posted by Hoss on Sep-02-2002 16:07:

how is it for other types of music? i have to make a few mixed cd's for some of my friends. i haven't even bothered to use anything but the hub to get music for a long time so i'm outta the loop.

Posted by CortexBomb on Sep-02-2002 16:22:

SS seems to be decent for electronic music, but if you stray outside that you're not going to find much...due in large part to the fact that SS was initially intended to only be used for electronic music.

There's nothing to prevent people from sharing other stuff, but it becomes a cycle. Only people who're interested in elecronic stuff hear about, and then get SS, and thus that's all that gets shared; which is fine by me, since that's the main thing I'm into these days anyhoo :shrug:

Posted by DJ-Ande on Sep-02-2002 16:43:

quote:
Originally posted by Vesa
I found only a few tracks I was looking for. It's got only the best known tunes, and no rare stuff at all

Fans of rare trance have been going through bad times ever since the shutdown of AG

no, the hub is awsome for rare tunes i have loads of quie rare tunes downloaded off there

Posted by xls on Sep-04-2002 13:48:

quote:
Originally posted by DJ-Ande
no, the hub is awsome for rare tunes i have loads of quie rare tunes downloaded off there

How is it for brand-new tracks? With AG I used to go listen to just-released tracks on record stores websites, find ones i liked and then i could almost always find them right away on AG. Are there a lot of brand-new releases on DC?

Posted by CortexBomb on Sep-04-2002 16:34:

It's not bad for brand new stuff, but not *great* either. If you're really after brand new stuff the second that it's available the DC hub is probably a better bet.

That said, stuff does tend to distribute pretty quickly on SS, I got the 4 "Yet Another Day" mixes, the AvB Positron Mix, and the two mixes of Sunspot almost immediately after reading about their release here, so sometimes it's really good.

A lot of it depends on if you luck out and get songs queued up before the line gets 500 deep...that kind of depth wouldn't be too much of an issue if you're running on broadband but for people like myself on normal shite 56k modems it can be difficult to get songs from the more popular users.

Thankfully I'll be on broadband sometime in the next two weeks, more choones for me...heh

Posted by Verona^My on Sep-05-2002 08:24:

is it any good for goatrance?

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