Soulseek

[Jiglo]

Right i've finally got connected to soulseek and i'm looking at the list in the user files and at the side of my name it doesn't give a k/s rating.

Does that mean that other people can't upload from me?

[mousemaid]

i think it just means that you havnt sent or recieved enough for it to guage your speed yet. there is a a Help! button if you get a bit stuck.

[Jiglo]

I got stuck alright lol

I opened about 15 windows and couldn't find my way back to the messaging and cut cutter off by accident (sorry mate )

It's a bit harder to get used to than another p2p I used to use

Cheers

[cutter]

You Will Get The Hang Of It M8
:d

[Northern Star]

Hey Jiglo im a pc idiot and managed to suss it out with a little help...and now i find it is real user friendly....ull be reet just stick with it hun

[Jiglo]

Cheers!

I'm starting to get the hang of it, but i've got a few questions:

1 - What do the blue symbols mean at the side of our names?

2 - Why can't I find files searching for them using the search function, but I can find them in peeps folders (well cutter's - as he's the only one given me access to his files so far )

3 - If I switch my pc off at night and somebody's in the middle of downloading a long file, would it: a) piss them off, b) restart for them the next time i'm online.

[Mike]

Originally Posted by Jiglo

1 - What do the blue symbols mean at the side of our names?

The one that supposedly looks like a bird with its wings open shows that you are online and at the PC. If you press the "toggle away" button at the top, you can change the status to Away (so it looks like either a bird with its wings shut, or a blue turnip, whichever u prefer). This is simply to signify whether you're at your PC or not. If you minimise the soulseek window I think it automatically switches to away after a while.

Originally Posted by Jiglo

2 - Why can't I find files searching for them using the search function, but I can find them in peeps folders (well cutter's - as he's the only one given me access to his files so far )

The search on soulseek is pretty crap. Due to the way it works, it doesn't always scan everyones files, so you sometimes get very limited results. If you leave it running for a while, sometimes things show up eventually. Also you will need to be on people's user lists before you can get search results off them. So if cutter's the only one who's added you, that's probably why.

Originally Posted by Jiglo

3 - If I switch my pc off at night and somebody's in the middle of downloading a long file, would it: a) piss them off, b) restart for them the next time i'm online.

The transfers are all resumable, so it will stay on their queue and automatically re-start next time you're both online.

Hope this helps, if you want adding to my userlist let me know your ID on there (mine is mikeeee)

[cutter]

cut me off in the middle of a transfer and il hunt yer down and feltch ya till ya empty!!!!!!

[Jiglo]

my eyes are watering laughing

Cheers Mike, i've got the same username on there (Jiglo) and my files are accessable to anybody. If anybody's waiting for a file, let me know and i'll cut somebody off that isn't sharing or wants me to convert an mp3 from my record collection, then just ask

[Jiglo]

Out of curiosity, could ya not just add everybody to your userlist, then it would search their files anyway?

[cutter]

Originally Posted by Jiglo

Out of curiosity, could ya not just add everybody to your userlist, then it would search their files anyway?

only if they added you and then you would be leeched to fook!

[Jiglo]

Ahhh a flaw in my plan! lol

I've resisted the urge to leech too many files off you anyway mate

Well, i've decided to restrict access to some of my files, so that just those that i've added to my userlist will get access to all the files that i'm gonna share - seeing as most people are fairly selfish on Soulseek.

I might get around to ripping some new shit over the next few weeks and i'm toying with the idea of adding other content

[ruffers]

Originally Posted by Jiglo

3 - If I switch my pc off at night and somebody's in the middle of downloading a long file, would it: a) piss them off, b) restart for them the next time i'm online.

I ended up cutting a couple of people off last night. The pc had been on all weekend and the transfer speed was less than 1KB/sec, they were trying to get whole albums off me and life is too short....other people were waiting. I know my connection's fine because I upload to others at 25-30.

Dialup + soulseek = dying of boredom.

[Jiglo]

Originally Posted by ruffers

I ended up cutting a couple of people off last night. The pc had been on all weekend and the transfer speed was less than 1KB/sec, they were trying to get whole albums off me and life is too short....other people were waiting. I know my connection's fine because I upload to others at 25-30.

Dialup + soulseek = dying of boredom.

Maybe you should just share those large files with people on your user list, that's what i've done so far with most of my larger files

[ruffers]

Possibly, although they're not large files as such. One was Decks FX & a 909, 30 odd little files but they were after the folder.