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Total votes: 21

thunderdome: bit torrent v. soulseek

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timpickens wrote:For music, Soulseek. You can find pretty much anything on there if you look hard enough. With obscurities on Soulseek, the overall success rate that you'll actually be able to download the entire package within reasonable time is much higher than that of torrents. I like Soulseek more than any other p2p software past or present.

Torrents are excellent,as well but they're better for downloading movies and more popular shit.



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The best feature of Soulseek is that if you find something obscure, you can browse people's directories directly and usually find more from the same genre or artist.

It's weakness (not good for huge files, one download stream at a time) is actually an asset - slow but sure.
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thunderdome: bit torrent v. soulseek

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timpickens wrote:For music, Soulseek. You can find pretty much anything on there if you look hard enough. With obscurities on Soulseek, the overall success rate that you'll actually be able to download the entire package within reasonable time is much higher than that of torrents. I like Soulseek more than any other p2p software past or present.

Torrents are excellent,as well but they're better for downloading movies and more popular shit.


This is it, for popular shit I'll look to torrents, but for the music I'm going to be likely to want, it's got to be Soulseek. I spent yesterday listening to the complete Lungleg back catalogue, which I doubt will have turned up on any torrent sites (I don't know how sites like Oink are, maybe I'm just not a member of the right sites), but which I got ages ago from Soulseek. Not having to rip all those sevens and so myself was a great convenience.

Soulseek is also great for searching '-band name- live', and coming up with odd stuff I would not otherwise have found.
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thunderdome: bit torrent v. soulseek

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Marsupialized wrote:
Tommy Alpha wrote:yeah yeah, i was big up on the old soulseek until it made my computer bluescreen every time i turned the fucker on. shame really cos i had a list as long as yer arm. absolute balls


I've never had a problem with it, runs the same now as it ever did...which is flawlessly


Well lucky old you then! :wink:
Yeah, maybe it doesn't like shit, old computers cos it did the same thing to my flatmate. it WAS excellent though purely for the range of complete albums. the programme a tad clunky looking. torrents are better for films and whatnot i guess.
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