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alte Hexe
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Yes, but Legion. How much of that was rare MP3s that pop up literally once a year? Next to none. I managed to assemble a massive collection of Black Metal, Death Metal, Grindcore, NSBM, RAC, Rockabilly, Punk, Thrash and various other goodies. Since I listened to all of it (yes, over 1000 hours of music  ) I kind of grew bored of many of the bands and I'm going to start on a new metal quest after I'm done reading these books of mine. |
Abnormal Freak
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Soulseek is so beautiful. I've been able to leech just about every Coil album in existence (and they sometimes put out 2 or 3 a year) off one guy. Fast connection...lets you take from him if you download no more than one album at a time.
I share quite a few albums on Slsk. (By the way, the article said it can be downloaded at www.slsk.org...which is wrong. The site is www.slsknet.org.) I find it fun to organize things and share. I don't have too many MP3s, 'cos a lot of the stuff I really like, I buy hard copies of, and if I own it, I don't have the songs on my computer. But recently, this one guy I know ripped all of his CDs to MP3s and is selling his whole CD collection. (Again about Coil...their CDs often go for $30 a piece. I'll be getting each for generally $5 each off this guy!) Maybe I'll do the same one day, EXCEPT...I doubt I'd rip to MP3. ;) I'd likely rip my CDs to the Ogg format, which is non-patented, and Oggs are apparently a lot better; you can have Oggs the same quality as MP3s and take up less space, or you can have Oggs the same file size as MP3s and have far superior quality. That's what I'm told. ;)
As it stands, I have close to 5 gigs on my hard drive. I don't share all of it...'cos some of it's stuff that's, well, kind of exclusive, and I respect that.
Never cared to own an iPod, but what really yanks my crank is iTunes for PC. It's sooooo well-organized and spiffy. Forget Winamp (except for listening to SNES music and such) and the horribly cruddy Windows Media Player...it's all about the iTunes, baby. Sooo fucking Sleek Sexy & Stupendous (mua ha ha suck that, Raymond Watts!). Totally killer shit...and easy to rip CDs to MP3s/WAVs using it.
drjayphd
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Pfffffffffft. I think Dell has 80 GB ones. ;P
Although the biggest problem with Soulseek? Its reliability SUUUUUUCKS. Servers keep going down. Like, well... RIGHT NOW.  |
Nebetsu
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Originally posted by Legion
I do, but mine shall be mightier.
Up to 5206 mp3's now @ 31.1 GB 
Ouch! I only got 5 gigs. I want one of them cheaper but still VERY expensive ipods. I know someone with 40 gigs of music, though. |
Legion
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I do, but mine shall be mightier.
Up to 5206 mp3's now @ 31.1 GB |
alte Hexe
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Legion remembers my mighty MP3 collection. |
Legion
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Wired had an article about this a couple months back. I think it was called the same thing. I like sticking with Bit Torrent though. The only thing I download these days are full albums, and I know where to get all the ones I want. |
drjayphd
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I dunno if anyone saw this article... caught it at work.
The iCollector
It starts with a tale of the author and a mission: Find every song which was a response to UTFO's song "Roxanne, Roxanne". (Roxanne Shante's career started because of this song, ya know.) He takes umbrage with a claim of how many there were (AMG said 103), tries to do it, and makes some headway, but lets it go. Then he gets Soulseek, and SPLADOW gets back on it and finds a LOT more. Why? Someone else had the same idea and ripped a lot. And that wasn't all he found... there was one user who had a folder of everything sampled on Paul's Boutique (one of the most prolific of albums when it comes to sampling), another had the history of Miami bass... it keeps going. Whyzzat? Because of smarter users. 
No, really. Instead of catering to people who just want songs, Soulseek's users typically want albums. And they keep 'em in a really organized hierarchy of folders. I know I do. 
So it's sort of a conceptual jukebox sort of thing... the writer's talking about it in terms of the iPod (something's gotta fill up the gigs of space), but still... I thought it was an intriguing article. |
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