By all accounts it's still full to the brim with incredibly rare records that you can't get anywhere else.<p>It has the niche for music that doesn't exist as part of any kind of album: unreleased tracks, demos, dubplates and so forth. I guess that's why its napster-style architecture still works. There's a lot of trading that goes on between individual users.
Alive and thriving - there's no better source for lesser known music. It has replaced private music trackers for me completely, since the selection is great and community is much less elitist.
Big fan of Soulseek here as well. As someone else mentioned, the community is fantastic and the rare track and mixes they have is great.<p>I find it amazing that the early 2000's boom of Napster, Kazaa, Audiogalaxy, etc are now all gone. I don't know a single person that downloads music illegally but ten years ago that's what everyone did. The rise of iTunes, Songza, Pandora, Last.fm, and so many others is proof of the industry adapting to itself and doing it fantastically well. If only Hollywood would adapt and see it the same way.
It still surprises me when I hear this, but then again, I've been a user since the early days. I think the main reason that it's survived is the user community. There are vast treasure troves of (usually) high quality music a query away. I still hit up the chat rooms occasionally for listening suggestions.<p>If you're not into scouring trackers or music blogs for more "obscure" tastes, or even if you used the program before it was ported to the QT framework, I would recommend you check it out!
This brings back memories. Soulseek was(is) super efficient. I remember directly browsing users HDs and sending message to them to congratulate them on their taste. I'd definitely try it out again.
Last I heard of Soulseek it was virus riddled and tracks were incorrectly named.<p>What it needs is a layer of trust, but unfortunately that probably means accountability, which is often a no-go for Soulseek users.
I still use this. It's useful for stuff like live mixes that disappeared off the face off the internet. There's usually someone out there that has a copy in their mp3 collection.
This brings back so many good memories I can hardly believe it. It brings a very small but very real tear to my eye.<p>This would be like waking up one day and realizing audiogalaxy was still there. Soulseek was my favorite music transfer program for a couple years there in the early 2000's and then I forgot all about it. I always loved the community aspect of it.<p>It reminds me of the very very old EFNet IRC days when I was briefly in one of the first MP3 kr3wz lol. #snes #warez5 stand up!<p>Today is a good day, today is a very fine day.
This is awesome. I was just browsing some of my old files and I found a folder called Soulseek with a ton of old DJ mixes that I couldn't find anywhere except there.<p>Glad this project is still running. Definitely some gems on there.
I'm sharing my collection of 52.000 songs on Soulseek, and it has always been my default choice for downloading music in high quality.<p>It's truly an amazing project, and I really hope it will never disappear.
I have the fondest memories of SoulSeek. I used to spend hours a day searching for rare tracks/albums (was really into obscure metal back then) and tirelessly organizing my library :D