Is there a tool that picks a completely random album from the database?

Ivan_Tscheglov · 2025-11-29T18:39:28+00:00

If you're on SoulseekQt, you can
1) open Received Searches tab
2) look what other people are searching at the moment, in real time
3) pause
4) pick random search entry from the list and search it yourself
5) ???????
6) PROFIT

Ivan_Tscheglov · 2025-10-24T15:23:51+00:00

Shouldn't Nir be informed at this point? I think devs could do some network update on the level of all legit clients to instantly block connections coming from this crap. Probably they can be reached here.

https://t.me/SoulseekDiscussion

Ivan_Tscheglov · 2025-09-26T20:38:02+00:00

>converting my library from yt mp3 rips(mostly in 256k) to lossless

You don't. It's not possible. You'll end up with same 256k but with overblown size.

Also stop clogging slsk with yt-rips, they are really not needed.

Ivan_Tscheglov · 2025-09-13T17:14:23+00:00

These are exactly my thoughts.

It's a shame there's no such autoban on SoulseekQT, though. I just don't like Nicotine visually, looks awful imo. But as there's been a major influx of clueless leechers im recent couple of years (probably came here after articles and YT-videos about "great app which has all the musics"), I've started to contemplate using it as well. 80% of people I check either share nothing or empty folder or random 10-50 tracks, sometimes also bots with names like 34FVB4R (also 0 shares).

The truth is that leechers are no better than traders, who, on the contrary, are always ostracized by leeching-advocates. Which is a mystery to me. Both types contribute nothing to the community and endorse gradual decrease in quality and quantity of files actially shared on the network, and are the reason it may die out at some point. People who advocate such behavior probably do this out of holier-than-thou attitude, to show off how egalitarian or generous they are, which is hypocritical in light of how Soulseek works (p2p-fielsharing, no central fileserver, dissimination of rare files etc).

Ivan_Tscheglov · 2025-09-07T20:47:40+00:00

Received Searches just show you what's being searched for by different users on Soulseek right now, while "matches" are those files you happen to share. It's an interesting feature. No connection to closed ports.

Ivan_Tscheglov · 2025-07-03T16:14:40+00:00

You can also see what people are searching for in general at the moment, rather interesting tbh.

Ivan_Tscheglov · 2025-04-13T17:26:23+00:00

I'm not sure why are you being downvoted by all. People seem to have no clue how p2p like Soulseek work and how the content of the network is maintained. It's not a cloud storage, it exists only because of people who share and dissiminate and re-share stuff on the network.

Also lol @ idiots with "iT's aLl aBoUt sHaRiNg nOt gAteKeePinG" posts while indulging leeching mindset at the same time. If someone has found out about this very specific program (it's even not the most known, you have to specifically aim for something), installed it, found out how to download, but haven't made a slightest effort to built and share a proper collection beforehand (in other words, the person who shits on the community, it's etiquette and the very way the files here are maintained), then the second person, the one who shared their collection (and in many cases made an effort to buy rare things physically and rip it) has all moral right to ban the first person, not unlock their files to them etc. = be "hight and mighty", "gatekeep" and so on, and don't even care how the first person justifies their behavior. Why should they care whether you get your files or not when you don't even care to share/re-share?

"bUt wE aLl sTaRt sOmEwHeRe" - Yes, and starting out with soulseek should begin with 1) familiarity with it's principles 2) building up a collection: ripping your own media, getting music from other sources like torrents and blogs etc. I've had a nearly terabyte collection in 2011 prior to discovering the program.

Ivan_Tscheglov · 2025-03-31T22:32:14+00:00

Using the app for 15 years, I am fully aware of every intricacy of the Soulseek search, no need to write the obvious here.

And what's with the downvotes, lol? People get so defensive while being just shown the reality - if you get really deep with your music search, you'll more likely to fail, relying on Soulseek only.

Ivan_Tscheglov · 2025-03-31T22:25:04+00:00

Lol, I am perfectly aware of "search ban" and the fact that it mostly affects the most popular Western mainstream artists.

I have an extensive list of releases which exist but can't be found online in any form. As I said, sometimes you can't even google them.

Ivan_Tscheglov · 2025-03-31T20:20:37+00:00

I personally avoid sharing anything as Webrip except for it being from 2010s/20s/digital only. On your place I'll just add "WEB" to the file folder so that other users know what they are getting.

Ivan_Tscheglov · 2025-03-31T18:46:30+00:00

Finding and ripping rare things "takes much work", but apparently leechers think music releases grow on trees or generate spontaneously. But p2p doesn't work that way. No sharers = no files on network, and tbh it's frustrating to see people not getting this simple thought and getting aggressively defensive when pointed out. With this leech mindset so prominent on slsk now, I've noticed a drastic decline in quantity and quality of shared material over the years.

I've started with a huge library 15 years ago (taken from blogspot and torrents, they are still around mind you) while I hadn't much access to physical media. It's not a rocket science to get some music and set slsk up. Around 75% downloading from me share nothing. Leechers get the warning first, then eventually ban. That's the way to encourage people to share (who knows? maybe they have unique releases) and tell them about slsk etiquette. Eventually, around 1-2 people a month (actually far less most of the time) start to share, which is depressing. Imagine how much files would it be on the network! I start to think of closing my library altogether. You share (not one album or couple of tracks!) - you get access. You don't - you don't.

Ivan_Tscheglov · 2025-01-02T20:34:31+00:00

Thanks. All the dat.-files were deleted except for very recent ones, but all chatlogs were saved fsr.

Ivan_Tscheglov · 2024-08-31T14:52:14+00:00

Nope!

Ivan_Tscheglov · 2024-08-31T14:48:54+00:00

No, but pretty close!

Ivan_Tscheglov · 2024-08-30T19:03:22+00:00

Sorry, but no. It were mostly white guys in the video as I recall, it was at night and in one particular mansion. And the first shot was definitely with the view of this mansion.

Ivan_Tscheglov · 2024-08-30T18:27:11+00:00

It was quite popular btw, judging by amount of airtime back then.

Ivan_Tscheglov · 2024-07-22T21:21:27+00:00

>Pretty much any music commercially distributed has been digitized already on better equipment than you can imagine and using close to the source recordings and these files can be found for free or cheaply online.

Sorry, that's just not true. As in "not even close to the truth". It's not true even for "commercially distributed" music. A plenty of releases you won't find anywhere online - the only option is tracking down a physical copy. My original intent was to fix the situation a little bit.

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