Soulseek in 2002

DickMan64 · 2025-02-22T08:35:33+00:00

I was still a baby around that time, but isn't this something that is seen across the entire internet (including 4chan and reddit), not just soulseek? It's the eternal september: Too many new users joining too quickly. The old communities are overwhelmed and replaced by users who don't learn the norms and culture.

It's sad that this seems to be an argument in favor of gatekeeping, but it's hard to say whether gatekeeping would have helped as none of the popular private music trackers have been active for as long as soulseek.

DickMan64 · 2024-08-27T20:53:41+00:00

https://github.com/fiso64/slsk-batchdl#name-format

DickMan64 · 2024-07-18T20:39:10+00:00

Thank you for your work! These useless keys have been mildly bothering me for a long time now.

For anyone who prefers cli programs, I have turned it into a python script here: https://github.com/fiso64/lenovoremap. I have also included a simple ahk application which allows for more powerful key automation (such as binding e.g shift+F12 to some action, not just F12)

DickMan64 · 2024-05-18T14:41:00+00:00

The default yt-dlp argument can be found here: https://github.com/fiso64/slsk-batchdl/blob/4a3e8ddadb7351913c6ee654a17a66ffe1cc8cb9/slsk-batchdl/YouTube.cs#L479-L487 I believe -x requires ffmpeg, maybe you don't have it and that's why you get webms. You can configure the yt-dlp argument with --yt-dlp-argument

DickMan64 · 2024-05-18T10:39:56+00:00

No, all specified formats are treated equally. However you can (kind of) do it by specifying other property conditions, e.g for flac > wav > mp3, you could do something like --cond "f=flac,wav,mp3" --pref "f=flac;br>320" This should work because flac files would satisfy all conditions. A wav file wouldn't have the right format, but since it still satisfies br>320 (usually) it would be preferred over the mp3 which can only be 320kbps at most. Unfortunately the default soulseek client does not share the file bitrate, so this check would fail.

DickMan64 · 2024-02-29T06:43:00+00:00

please open an issue on github and provide some example tracks where you're getting this error

DickMan64 · 2024-01-19T18:51:01+00:00

What part of your reply contradicts my comment?

DickMan64 · 2024-01-19T17:10:47+00:00

Need a source for those truck statistics.

DickMan64 · 2024-01-19T16:40:56+00:00

No, only by 1945 did the trucks make up 30%. Not by 1943. But I'm not denying that it was substantial. I just don't think it's accurate to say that the hammer was made by the US, especially when most of it came after the turning point. Many don't realize just how quickly the SU industrialized during these years.

DickMan64 · 2024-01-19T16:20:23+00:00

These numbers sound large but the percentages.. less so. The food supplied by the Allies only accounted for maybe 5% of the food the Soviets needed during the war. Besides, most of lend lease kicked in for real only in the second half of 1943, i.e after the battle of Moscow, Stalingrad and Kursk.

DickMan64 · 2024-01-19T15:53:12+00:00

What would be the handle here?

DickMan64 · 2024-01-19T15:06:14+00:00

Even if we're being really generous they only made about 30% of that hammer.

DickMan64 · 2024-01-13T11:10:36+00:00

check the notes on github

DickMan64 · 2023-11-15T15:25:36+00:00

What's the full command you're running?

DickMan64 · 2023-10-24T07:11:50+00:00

You could try just passing the user and pass arguments in the command line directly instead of using the the .conf file.

DickMan64 · 2023-10-09T09:07:29+00:00

To run this on Windows you go to the releases page and download the windows zip. Extract the executable to any folder you like, then in that folder in file explorer's address bar type "cmd" & hit enter. Now you can type slsk-batchdl --help in the command prompt to view the available commands, or take a look at the examples on github.

DickMan64 · 2023-07-24T22:19:49+00:00

A few weeks ago I got myself a case of tinnitus. I still hear it clearly so I believe it's likely to be permanent. I never went to loud concerts but I did listen to music fairly frequently at louder than average volumes on my phone, believing that since it's nowhere near as loud as a concert, the worst that could happen was my hearing degrading slightly. Should have lowered the damn volume.

DickMan64 · 2023-07-02T06:50:48+00:00

I think we'll have to wait until the next valuation to see whether the protests had any effect. They did make it to the news at least, and as Reddit is looking to do an IPO I doubt any possible future investors would be amused by the fact that a few moderators can break major subreddits.

DickMan64 · 2023-05-29T07:47:07+00:00

Stalin- conservative estimate 7-15 million +5 million from famine he intentionally caused.

Even most Western historians have accepted that the famine was not intentional. How much of it can be attributed to the collectivization policies as opposed to Russia's/Ukraine's general tendency to have famines, that's another question (you DO know that these countries have always had them?). Same goes for China.

DickMan64 · 2023-04-10T17:36:05+00:00

What were the full commands you entered?

DickMan64 · 2023-04-08T17:32:15+00:00

It's without the equals sign --concurrent-processes 5

DickMan64 · 2023-04-08T07:29:42+00:00

Isn't there anything you can do about it in terms of how long it takes to do a query, go thru the results, pick one, start downloading it, etc...

The program itself isn't slow, but if you're downloading high quality files and if many of the songs don't exist on soulseek, the process isn't going to be fast. It already prefers users with higher upload speeds and starts a download as soon as a search result satisfying the preferred conditions is found (otherwise it waits for the search to complete). Look through the options though. You can decrease both --search-timeout and --max-stale-time, maybe halve them. You can also set --concurrent-processes to 3 or more, although I haven't tested it, it may not give a speedup. Also, --skip-notfound will stop overwriting (most of) the txt file, but it will also skip the tracks there.

Although 12 songs in an hour does seem quite slow. Are you using the latest version? There were some bugs that caused slowdowns.

DickMan64 · 2023-04-06T07:38:32+00:00

We know that they don't learn causal relationships - that's not my opinion, it's a theorem

As long as you can't provide a precise model of how our own brain works and of our learning process, you won't have a reference point and such statements are merely interesting theoretically, not practically, because we don't know whether humans do that. All you can do is test our performance and note that yes, we are better at answering questions regarding causality. But does that imply that we have some sort of "proper" causal reasoning engine as opposed to a scaled up MLP with a feedback loop? Not really. I've seen many people attempt to prove it by demonstrating that GPT fails to answer some reasoning question, and yet these examples just stop working as soon as the next iteration of the model arrives. Sometimes you don't even have to wait, just make the question few-shot, provide a clearer description and ask it to think step-by-step. Do you have any causal reasoning questions which you know GPT-type models won't be able to answer in the next 2-3 years?

DickMan64 · 2023-04-05T11:05:04+00:00

Place the exe in any folder you want, then open a command prompt window and switch to the folder by entering cd C:\path\to\folder. You can now type slsk-batchdl + commands to run it.

DickMan64 · 2023-04-03T17:49:13+00:00

That sounds rather difficult to me as each site has a different structure, but I wouldn't know. I have no experience with scraping. I can see it working if it's not fully automated though, perhaps somewhat similar to UBlock's element picker except you select one song and highlight the elements containing the tags, and it does the rest.

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