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. 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. 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). 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. 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. ![]() Soulseek – a real community, not just a downloading programīut 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. ![]() In the old days, many people didn’t just download but actively shared files between each other, not just on the technical side of things, but they were loads of people that actually converted their CDs and tapes to MP3, and made them available for people just because they wanted to participate in the whole thing. However, this quickly died down because people rushed in, avid to download without actually sharing anything. ![]() (Napster, the first, now defunct P2P network, was very much like Soulseek) Soulseekqt rooms empty chat download#
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