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Re: Soulseek: lightning review by Zseni 12/18/2004, 8:48am PST
So wait, what's the difference between going into a Soulseek chat room and requesting an album, and going into a oink.me.uk message board and posting a message requesting an album? Congratulations Bittorrent world, crazy Zseni loves to post torrents for you, so that makes you better.

I guess the main difference is that oink.co.uk isn't the only BT music site on the planet. Oh yeah, and you use BitTorrent instead of a p2p, which replaces the agony and uncertainty of queues with the agony and uncertainty of waiting for seeders. Whether this is good or bad depends on who you are. At ThePPN there is a DVD worth of Ayumi Hamasaki mp3s in a set of 7 torrents that are over a year old now. I downloaded the complete set; it took me a little over a day. Such popular torrents on a stable server do have a clear advantage over slsk: always seeded, always available, no queues, no digging around. Here are some more ways that BT is better:

    Torrents are attached to websites, and are frequently covered by ratings and reviews and discussion areas.

    Your choice of clients, with a variety of features and resource requirements, including (on Azareus) slsk-style chat

    Superior propagation of data, the feature that BT was designed around

    Doesn't punish you for having large collection of files to potentially share

    Fans of BT less rabid, insecure than fans of slsk


But I don't get this thing where BitTorrent is somehow inferior because it requires that people contribute new material to it. WTF? Does the hugeness and coldness of slsk-space make you idiots think all that music comes directly from the aethyr or some fairy catalog or whatever?

Also, you're completely incompetent at Soulseek. I just put in "sam dave" as a search term and got back at least 200 results, including three instances of "the best of Sam and Dave" and a stax/volt collection of Sam & Dave singles.

Incompetent? That's harsh. But completely incompetent? That's just hyperbole, straight up.

I won't disagree with you that BT is a much faster and solid way to get, well, anything, but come on. Take your quixotic P2P jihad somewhere else.

What p2p jihad, hombre? I was pimping an anime p2p that worked just like slsk years ago, except it was better.
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    Vintage Vinyl sucks now NT by Just FYI 12/13/2004, 3:00pm PST NEW
        :( Ponyboy joke. NT by Zseni 12/13/2004, 3:21pm PST NEW
            What store is emule? It is a crowded mall. NT by Mysterio 12/13/2004, 4:29pm PST NEW
    Re: Soulseek: lightning review by William H. Hayt, Jr. 12/13/2004, 4:54pm PST NEW
        Re: Soulseek: lightning review by Choson 12/13/2004, 8:08pm PST NEW
            Re: Soulseek: lightning review by Zseni 12/15/2004, 10:42am PST NEW
                Re: Soulseek: lightning review by Choson 12/15/2004, 11:31am PST NEW
                    Re: Soulseek: lightning review by Zseni 12/15/2004, 11:46am PST NEW
                        Re: Soulseek: lightning review by William H. Hayt, Jr. 12/15/2004, 1:42pm PST NEW
                            Re: Soulseek: lightning review by Zseni 12/18/2004, 5:57am PST NEW
                                Re: Soulseek: lightning review by Choson 12/18/2004, 7:12am PST NEW
                                    Re: Soulseek: lightning review by Zseni 12/18/2004, 8:48am PST NEW
                                        Re: Soulseek: lightning review by Choson 12/18/2004, 9:39am PST NEW
                                            The problem with BT music is the GBs. by Fullofkittens 12/18/2004, 9:46am PST NEW
                                                Re: The problem with BT music is the GBs. by Azureus 12/18/2004, 11:06am PST NEW
                                                But you can get a single track. by Berlioz 12/18/2004, 11:07am PST NEW
                                                    Snooped by seconds. NT by Berlioz 12/18/2004, 11:08am PST NEW
                                                    Re: But you can get a single track. by Choson 12/18/2004, 11:19am PST NEW
                                                        I am in agreement with you utterly. by Berlioz 12/18/2004, 1:29pm PST NEW
                                                            Re: I am in agreement with you utterly. by Choson 12/18/2004, 1:47pm PST NEW
                                                                Really? by Berlioz 12/18/2004, 3:41pm PST NEW
                                        Re: Soulseek: lightning review by Ice Cream Jonsey 12/18/2004, 3:46pm PST NEW
                                            Re: Soulseek: lightning review by Zseni 12/18/2004, 6:00pm PST NEW
                                                Thank you, you have improved my life. NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 12/18/2004, 6:43pm PST NEW
                                Re: Soulseek: lightning review by William H. Hayt, Jr. 12/18/2004, 3:24pm PST NEW
    Re: Soulseek: lightning review by Gorb 12/18/2004, 11:38pm PST NEW
    Soulseek: lightning review (Revisited) by Senor Barborito 12/27/2004, 5:13am PST NEW
 
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