Soulseek – a real community, not just a downloading program But while these are long gone, either sued to cease and decist by the courts, or have become riddled with fake files, viruses and contantly surveilled by the copyright industry, Soulseek is still alive and rolling. ![]() The bottom line: Just give it a try and tell us what you think! Our Detailed Review:Īre you a fan of bootlegs, alternative or other, more exotic music genres or groups that you can’t find anywhere else? Do you not mind to take a half hour to really get things, with the reward being tons of rare music and being part of a unique community of music lovers? Then you might want to take a closer look to Soulseek, one of the last remaining veterans of what we like to call the “personal P2P area”.įirst presented in 2001, just two years after Napster started the file sharing craze, it gained some popularity among with the Gnutella network (Limewire etc.) and KaZaA, Grokster and other clients. The copyright industry has not bothered to spy on this network for over a decade, but some might still want to hide their tracks, “just in case”.Īlso, some people will require you to actively share music yourself, so don’t clear your download folder right away and consider contributing something yourself. Using the network anonymously behind a VPN is a tad more difficult than with torrents, but we have an article on that too ( see here). On the downside, in order to max out the potential of the software you might have to spend some time to properly set up port forwarding, especially if you want to fully anonymize everything, because otherwise some users files might not be accessible for you. The software itself is quite easy to understand, with a simple-to-use search engine, and if you play around a little bit, you will quickly learn to use its full potential, as there is more to discover than meets the eye. Soulseek not only has loads of free music, but also a pretty cool community of music lovers, often not only sharing random titles but whole album collections, which can sometimes be browsed through directly via the “view shared files” feature.īrowsing around other users files and chatting with the community either via private, direct chat or on the large chat rooms (each dedicated to a music genre) will not only let you find new music you never heard or maybe even thought of, but you might also meet new friends, who knows? If you are into more rare music that can’t be easily found on most places online, love a more personal approach to sharing files, and have no problem with taking a little time to make everything work to its full potential, then Soulseek might be just the place for you. I can probably go through and sort out the crap afterwards, but I really just want to know if this is possible in the first instance.Download The Software Here Quick Overview: When the search should ideally be Epsilon - Wake Up. There are definitely some intricacies with this process such as cluttered titles, for example: "EPSILON "Wake Up" 1975 Funk Disco". Going forward I want to use the list to create an automated search + download via Soulseek for the first result (if any) for each title. ![]() Robertinho De Recife - Só Pra Você Ver (Brazil, 1981) ![]() (To include the channel would be a bonus.) Example: This is a useful exercise in its own right as I'd like the names in case YT decides to delete playlists or music. The first thing I need is a script which lists the title of every video in a chosen playlist into a notebook/excel file.About 90 percent of the music I listen to is not available to buy so I use Soulseek to download lossless files (wav, flac) to play out. Over my life I've created hundreds of youtube playlists with 10000s of songs/videos. I am an architecture student + DJ and I think learning to code will be useful for my career. ![]() I am a complete beginner to code/scripting/programming, so forgive me if I'm being naive.
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