soulseek

jeskola · Post by **jeskola** » Wed May 11, 2005 9:36 am

is there anything like soulseek or emule for mac os?

Poster · Post by **Poster** » Wed May 11, 2005 9:52 am

first of all; this is the ABLETON LIVE forum...

secondly; don't ask stupid questions before you tried google..

finally; make some music, instead of downloading it..

sweetjesus · Post by **sweetjesus** » Wed May 11, 2005 10:01 am

Poster wrote: first of all; this is the ABLETON LIVE forum...
secondly; don't ask stupid questions before you tried google..
finally; make some music, instead of downloading it..

poster, u need more than 24 posts before you can act like a wanker such as myself.

Now to answer the thread,
first of all; this is the ABLETON LIVE forum...
secondly; don't ask stupid questions before you tried google..
:finally; make some music, instead of downloading it.

P.S. Limewire and Azureus is probably what you need. If you go the Bittorrent route with Azureus, there's plenty of legal music you can download. There's trackers just for legal music. I don't fancy illegaly downloading music unless its for educational purposes which IS ok to do so under the 'fair use' section of copyright acts.

Going off tangent here, the Australian government is now accepting public submissions as to what 'fair use' covers which is pretty cool.

jeskola · Post by **jeskola** » Wed May 11, 2005 10:02 am

Poster wrote:first of all; this is the ABLETON LIVE forum...
secondly; don't ask stupid questions before you tried google..
finally; make some music, instead of downloading it..

Yes exactly -

i want to share MY music with other people who use soulseek on PC

its not a stupid question - yes i have tried google and all i could see was a slsk emulatro thing which involved fucking about with terminal - or lime wire.
not happy with either.

and finally - i do make music, but i also love listening to music - so YOU stop posting useless replies after 24 posts - i know how this place works, i know what forum it is - i been here for while (lot longer than you)

mr-e · Post by **mr-e** » Wed May 11, 2005 11:25 am

as far as i can remember emule is a java application
--> OS independant !!!

anyway , almost every software appart from games has a java client port , even the microsoft office packages have java based webinterfaces for corporate networks

--> you want it for mac : get it for java

also:
if you have os X or higher you can always download the linux source and compile it on your mac

PS

slsk emulatro thing which involved fucking about with terminal

shame on you , you don't deserve os X ^_^

jeskola · Post by **jeskola** » Wed May 11, 2005 11:26 am

mr-e wrote:as far as i can remember emule is a java application
--> OS independant !!!

anyway , almost every software appart from games has a java client port , even the microsoft office packages have java based webinterfaces for corporate networks

--> you want it for mac : get it for java

also:
if you have os X or higher you can always download the linux source and compile it on your mac

V interesting - how do i get it working with java then?

sweetjesus · Post by **sweetjesus** » Wed May 11, 2005 11:36 am

mr-e wrote:even the microsoft office packages have java based webinterfaces for corporate networks

Unless I'm grossly wrong, you are mistaking MS Office for Star Office and Open Office.

mr-e · Post by **mr-e** » Wed May 11, 2005 11:44 am

As a mac comes with java standard edition & command line tools etc preinstalled , it more or less comes down to downloading the .jar package containing the application and executing 'java application.jar'.
If you install an application through java webstart , it even automaticly creates an icon with the correct startup procedure.
I'm at work now and our firewall/websense prevents us from visiting any site containing the words peer-to-peer so I can't look up the details for emule/... right now.
From the moment the application has booted , you are in an OS independant environment: load the application on windows/linux/mac/mainframe/... , it will look & respond the same.

mr-e · Post by **mr-e** » Wed May 11, 2005 12:07 pm

even the microsoft office packages have java based webinterfaces for corporate networks

If I hadn't used it myself I wouldn't have believed it neither.

- First of all , this was in the pre.NET/ActiveX era: 1998 I think. Nowadays microsoft would idd use its own platform to create webinterface based applications , and they would prolly run on nothing but IE.
- These applications looked ugly: grey with oldschool java buttons and very few proprietary colors/icons. The webinterface versions of lotus applications also look like this most of the time.
- The applications only ran on the intranet side of the network. Especially in those days they were not even nearly as fast as real applications , and as I said , they looked ugly

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tanith · Post by **tanith** » Wed May 11, 2005 12:19 pm

there is a not very well known client for SLSK for OS X which is quite good:
http://chris.schleifer.net/ssX/

for bittorrent there is the mentioned azureus or the more fancy bits on wheels:
http://bitsonwheels.com/

as for downloading music: i made a habit of downloading music "illegally" but buying it afterwards, as i dont't trust any encoding exept mine. that way i explored a lot of tracks and artists, which i would never have found otherwise. it's a natural way of people working with the internet, isn't it? i mean, i see charts and reviews, go to an online store, hear 30 seonds of the track and know as much as before. so i download the tracks over night at SLSK and what i need stays in my iTunes playlist, i print that and go to the recordshop to buy it. i got only the records i need, without the hassels in the recordstore and the store is glad that i'm finished fast and that there's someone who's actually buying music that he downloaded.
as i earn my money with playing music, i'm more than willing to pay for it. sadly it's still the only way to get the money to the artists i whish there would be a paychannel in the p2p networks, as more and more Djs are not in need of the records anymore (like myself) and it's a pitty that, if you want to pay the artist, you have to pay the most part to the middlemen.

Poster · Post by **Poster** » Wed May 11, 2005 1:15 pm

jeskola wrote:
Poster wrote:first of all; this is the ABLETON LIVE forum...
secondly; don't ask stupid questions before you tried google..
finally; make some music, instead of downloading it..
Yes exactly -

i want to share MY music with other people who use soulseek on PC

its not a stupid question - yes i have tried google and all i could see was a slsk emulatro thing which involved fucking about with terminal - or lime wire.
not happy with either.

and finally - i do make music, but i also love listening to music - so YOU stop posting useless replies after 24 posts - i know how this place works, i know what forum it is - i been here for while (lot longer than you)

since when does quantity beats quality?
anyway, you lazy boy..
http://www.fejta.com/solarseek/
you're welcome..

mr-e · Post by **mr-e** » Wed May 11, 2005 6:25 pm

Hmm , after some looking around it seems i mixed up limewire and emule, it is indeed limewire that is a java app and not emule.

but , if you still want to use emule without looking for a mac client , check out https://emule.dev.java.net/

hacktheplanet · Post by **hacktheplanet** » Wed May 11, 2005 7:15 pm

There's a port of Soulseek for X11 (java thing for mac) called Nicotine. http://nicotine-app.sourceforge.net/cgi ... ki.pl?Home It works fairly well for an X11 app.

There's also a program that I use frequently called Poisoned. http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/20289 It searches a few different p2p networks.

Also, you can download EDM tracks digitally from http://www.beatport.net for like $1.50. That's the best way because you can get the highest quality file, and the legal right to own it. You can also start your own digital label there and sell your tracks online. Beatport rocks.