Choson wrote:

William H. Hayt, Jr. wrote:

The learning curve for SLSK is pretty monstrous, but I've gotten over 200 gigs from there. It has everything I want, not just whatever is posted on certain torrent sites.

Huh? The learning curve? You'd think Soulseek was the software for air traffic control the way you're both talking about it. Two things to remember:

1. Multiple near-simultaneous searches will often lead to different sets of results, so if everything appears queued, keep running the search a few times.
2. Sort results by max speed and download by directory, aim to download stuff that isn't greyed out (i.e you won't be stuck in a queue) -- this is where point #1 comes in handy, since you'll often find that a second search will return the album you want with no one in line.

If you're looking for something really obscure, then ignore the above, and just download the only search result that comes back.

With that I've never had any issues -- Soulseek was and is the replacement Audiogalaxy, and only now that better BT music sites have sprung up have I found myself using it much less. It's still got a lot better arcana than even the most arcane BT site, I think.