 Soulseek Vs. Kazaa, Battle of the P2P File-Sharing Progs |
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 Nov 18 2003, 12:30 AM
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 Steadily spiralling into the abyss  Group: New Members Posts: 3,733 Joined: 20-March 03 From: London, UK Member No.: 154  |
Kazaa = the world's most popular P2P program. However, ridden with crappy quality music files and viruses.
Soulseek = a small P2P network with cult status. Faster speeds and better quality MP3s, yet less users and a screwed-up search function. Take your pick, people. Discuss your views. -------------------- 6:30pm
How Much Do You Reckon This Food Processor's Worth? Well? How Much Is It Worth? Come On. For F--k's Sake Just Hazard A Guess You Half-Witted Proletarian S--t - We Haven't Got All F--king Day. This Is A Game Show, Not A F--king Waiting Room. Now Spit Your F--king Answer Out Or I'll Kick You All The Way Back To Whichever P--s-Streaked Council Estate You Crawled From, So You Can Hatch The Rest Of Your Futureless Offspring In Empty-Handed Misery. Now Answer Me, C--T. Explicitly confrontational version of The Price Is Right. Shiny Blog |
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Nov 18 2003, 12:35 AM
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 Remorseless posting machine Group: Moderators Posts: 5,749 Joined: 19-July 03 From: Bloody London Member No.: 466 Gender: Male |
Kazaa 0\/\/|\|2 Soulseek. True, there's the occasional dummy music file and the (very) occasional virus, but it's not often enough to be any kind of problem. I get virii through e-mail more often than I do through Kazaa. Kazaa has what's important for a P2P community - LOTS OF PEOPLE.
-------------------- Every sort of expert knowledge and every inquiry, and similarly every action and undertaking, seems to seek some good. Because of that, people are right to affirm that the good is 'that which all things seek'...
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Nov 18 2003, 12:36 AM
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 I post more than I speak Group: Established Members Posts: 8,738 Joined: 10-March 03 Member No.: 116 |
its soulseek by a mile... no, 2 miles... no, the circumference of jupiter! and slsk wins! <applause and laughter>
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Nov 18 2003, 12:38 AM
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Steadily spiralling into the abyss Group: New Members Posts: 3,733 Joined: 20-March 03 From: London, UK Member No.: 154 |
Pshaw. Soulseek is a more stable program, with a better selection of MP3s and a more reliable download system (does the downloading off more than one user thing EVER make your connection faster? No.). Also, it's not riddled with viruses, and people on there know a decent quality sound file when they hear it.
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How Much Do You Reckon This Food Processor's Worth? Well? How Much Is It Worth? Come On. For F--k's Sake Just Hazard A Guess You Half-Witted Proletarian S--t - We Haven't Got All F--king Day. This Is A Game Show, Not A F--king Waiting Room. Now Spit Your F--king Answer Out Or I'll Kick You All The Way Back To Whichever P--s-Streaked Council Estate You Crawled From, So You Can Hatch The Rest Of Your Futureless Offspring In Empty-Handed Misery. Now Answer Me, C--T. Explicitly confrontational version of The Price Is Right. Shiny Blog |
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Nov 18 2003, 12:38 AM
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Remorseless posting machine Group: Moderators Posts: 5,749 Joined: 19-July 03 From: Bloody London Member No.: 466 Gender: Male |
ROAD TEST TIME.
I want some DeathBoy mp3s. I search Kazaa. Immediately, I get several pages of them. I start downloading a few. I search on Soulseek. ... ... ...oooh! There's one! Oh, wait. It's in queue. ... I started that search about twenty minutes ago. There's still only one result. No matter, I'm listening to all those mp3s I got from Kazaa. -------------------- Every sort of expert knowledge and every inquiry, and similarly every action and undertaking, seems to seek some good. Because of that, people are right to affirm that the good is 'that which all things seek'...
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Nov 18 2003, 12:41 AM
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Remorseless posting machine Group: Moderators Posts: 5,749 Joined: 19-July 03 From: Bloody London Member No.: 466 Gender: Male |
QUOTE (Debaser @ Nov 18 2003, 12:47 AM) Pshaw. Soulseek is a more stable program... You know, you're right. After all, it never goes down, does it? Nope. Never. QUOTE with a better selection of MP3s I have never ever ever gotten better results from the same search with Soulseek than with Kazaa. And yes, I do try both. QUOTE and a more reliable download system That I'll concede, but it hardly outweighs slsk's flaws. QUOTE Also, it's not riddled with viruses, and people on there know a decent quality sound file when they hear it. Like I said, I've never had a problem with either virii or low-quality files. -------------------- Every sort of expert knowledge and every inquiry, and similarly every action and undertaking, seems to seek some good. Because of that, people are right to affirm that the good is 'that which all things seek'...
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Nov 18 2003, 12:42 AM
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Steadily spiralling into the abyss Group: New Members Posts: 3,733 Joined: 20-March 03 From: London, UK Member No.: 154 |
That is because you're on at a bad time. Anyway, my road test...
Hmmm. I wonder if anyone has any Electric Six MP3s. The album's not out for another 3 or so months, so this should be interesting. I search Soulseek. A whole bunch of people have the album. I download off someone with a decent speed and it's on a CD within half an hour. Result. I search Kazaa. A few people have bits and pieces, but by the time the file's on my hard drive, it's taken forever, and it's screwed to hell and back. The one decent one I get I find out is at 96 kbps. Feh. -------------------- 6:30pm
How Much Do You Reckon This Food Processor's Worth? Well? How Much Is It Worth? Come On. For F--k's Sake Just Hazard A Guess You Half-Witted Proletarian S--t - We Haven't Got All F--king Day. This Is A Game Show, Not A F--king Waiting Room. Now Spit Your F--king Answer Out Or I'll Kick You All The Way Back To Whichever P--s-Streaked Council Estate You Crawled From, So You Can Hatch The Rest Of Your Futureless Offspring In Empty-Handed Misery. Now Answer Me, C--T. Explicitly confrontational version of The Price Is Right. Shiny Blog |
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Nov 18 2003, 12:44 AM
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Remorseless posting machine Group: Moderators Posts: 5,749 Joined: 19-July 03 From: Bloody London Member No.: 466 Gender: Male |
QUOTE (Debaser @ Nov 18 2003, 12:51 AM) That is because you're on at a bad time. The great thing about Kazaa? There is no bad time! I don't have to think "Oh no, I can't download yet," I can get anything, anytime. -------------------- Every sort of expert knowledge and every inquiry, and similarly every action and undertaking, seems to seek some good. Because of that, people are right to affirm that the good is 'that which all things seek'...
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Nov 18 2003, 12:45 AM
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I post more than I speak Group: Established Members Posts: 8,738 Joined: 10-March 03 Member No.: 116 |
QUOTE (Debaser @ Nov 18 2003, 12:47 AM) with a better selection of MP3s omg yes! i found alot of stuff you would NEVER find on crappy kazaa! also, you can always talk to people in slsk for recommendations, and dont forget the chat rooms, they are always nice for finding music/recommendations... -------------------- |
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Nov 18 2003, 12:50 AM
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Steadily spiralling into the abyss Group: New Members Posts: 3,733 Joined: 20-March 03 From: London, UK Member No.: 154 |
QUOTE (cheese is funny @ Nov 18 2003, 12:54 AM) QUOTE (Debaser @ Nov 18 2003, 12:47 AM) with a better selection of MP3s omg yes! i found alot of stuff you would NEVER find on crappy kazaa! also, you can always talk to people in slsk for recommendations, and dont forget the chat rooms, they are always nice for finding music/recommendations... POINT. On Kazaa, you might as well be downloading off a damn robot. Slsk has a much better sense of community. -------------------- 6:30pm
How Much Do You Reckon This Food Processor's Worth? Well? How Much Is It Worth? Come On. For F--k's Sake Just Hazard A Guess You Half-Witted Proletarian S--t - We Haven't Got All F--king Day. This Is A Game Show, Not A F--king Waiting Room. Now Spit Your F--king Answer Out Or I'll Kick You All The Way Back To Whichever P--s-Streaked Council Estate You Crawled From, So You Can Hatch The Rest Of Your Futureless Offspring In Empty-Handed Misery. Now Answer Me, C--T. Explicitly confrontational version of The Price Is Right. Shiny Blog |
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Nov 18 2003, 12:53 AM
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 Took this grammar! Group: Established Members Posts: 3,246 Joined: 23-March 03 From: Saskatoon Member No.: 165 Gender: Female |
QUOTE (Debaser @ Nov 17 2003, 06:59 PM) QUOTE (cheese is funny @ Nov 18 2003, 12:54 AM) QUOTE (Debaser @ Nov 18 2003, 12:47 AM) with a better selection of MP3s omg yes! i found alot of stuff you would NEVER find on crappy kazaa! also, you can always talk to people in slsk for recommendations, and dont forget the chat rooms, they are always nice for finding music/recommendations... POINT. On Kazaa, you might as well be downloading off a damn robot. Slsk has a much better sense of community. I don't look for a sense of community in my music programs I look for music. I agree with Sean. Kazaa is by far the superior system, it does have it's flaws, but it gets me where I want to go. -------------------- Everytime the blue screen went out, Stan the weatherman suffered an existential crisis.
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Nov 18 2003, 12:56 AM
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 Remorseless posting machine Group: Established Members Posts: 5,224 Joined: 24-February 03 From: New York City, Boston Member No.: 15 Gender: Male |
had you put the EVEN MORE ILLEGAL kazaa lite up there, i would've voted for it. no evil spyware for me, so i voted for soulseek.
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Nov 18 2003, 01:33 AM
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Technically a giant, intellectual midget. Group: Established Members Posts: 4,319 Joined: 29-March 03 From: Enger-land Member No.: 197 Gender: Transgender |
kazaa never had spyware, it just installed an extra piece of software without telling you which beleive it or not was part of the peer to peer software, and if i'm not wrong (i might be) kazaa piggy backs off the gnutella network which was around the same time napster was so of course it's gonna be bigger
-------------------- He's a freak of nature, but we love him so.
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Nov 18 2003, 02:19 AM
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 Kiefer > Jason Group: Admin Posts: 9,698 Joined: 26-February 03 From: UK Member No.: 51 Gender: Female |
Actually SPS after installing Kazaa again on my computer I ran spybot and it killed a couple of things Kazaa had installed onto my computer. (spybot searches out and destroys spyware). To avoid spyware on Kazaa one has to have the Kazaa lite version, which is at least from my experience, hard to find anymore.
Soulseek is far superior. You can hook straight up to your friends and gank their files, which is a lot nicer in my opinion, than trying to find someone on Kazaa who has a decent speed and doesn't cancel your connections. I find that I can find the more readily available crap on Kazaa, but the unknowns that I think are better for spicing up my collection I can only seem to find on Soulseek or WinMx. WinMx though is worse than Kazaa at actually letting you download anything. --------------------  Being Pimped By Aries Since 2003 |
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Nov 18 2003, 02:36 AM
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 Made with googly eyes Group: Established Members Posts: 1,281 Joined: 9-April 03 Member No.: 240 Gender: Secret |
Soulseek is better. kazaa is a big ugly program that slows down your computer, and has a poor media player, which provides unnecessary hugeness in program size and memory requirements. Use Winamp you heathens!
On the other hand, if it's porn you're looking for, KaZaA is far superior. |
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Nov 18 2003, 03:16 AM
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Technically a giant, intellectual midget. Group: Established Members Posts: 4,319 Joined: 29-March 03 From: Enger-land Member No.: 197 Gender: Transgender |
i have a folder of celebrity fakes that my mate makes.....everyone goes foe neve campbell for some reason
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Nov 18 2003, 07:45 AM
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 not forgotten Group: Established Members Posts: 1,871 Joined: 24-May 03 From: Fife, Scotland Member No.: 323 Gender: Female |
i voted soulseek cause i got a virus from kazaa months ago and this is me just getting back online now...ok that had more to do with not having a working computer than the virus itself but its kazaa's fault my puter was screwed! rawr...
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Nov 18 2003, 09:24 AM
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Steadily spiralling into the abyss Group: New Members Posts: 3,733 Joined: 20-March 03 From: London, UK Member No.: 154 |
Kazaa = 4 viruses over about 3 months.
Soulseek = no viruses in the entire time I've been using it. Speaks for itself, really. -------------------- 6:30pm
How Much Do You Reckon This Food Processor's Worth? Well? How Much Is It Worth? Come On. For F--k's Sake Just Hazard A Guess You Half-Witted Proletarian S--t - We Haven't Got All F--king Day. This Is A Game Show, Not A F--king Waiting Room. Now Spit Your F--king Answer Out Or I'll Kick You All The Way Back To Whichever P--s-Streaked Council Estate You Crawled From, So You Can Hatch The Rest Of Your Futureless Offspring In Empty-Handed Misery. Now Answer Me, C--T. Explicitly confrontational version of The Price Is Right. Shiny Blog |
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Nov 18 2003, 01:01 PM
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Has been kidnapped by gerbils and forced to post on here repeatedly Group: Validating Posts: 1,075 Joined: 13-July 03 Member No.: 451 Gender: Male |
easy choice:
- kazaa for finding stuff when I dont know who's got it ... - slsk for ganking of people I know already ... for search results there is simply no comparison between kazaa and slsk ... kazaa has billions more files ... its unavoidable ... and debs' "no virus on slsk" thing is probably because he couldnt download any files cos there are very few anyway, and the server spends half its time on its ass .... -------------------- Smileys don't mean not destuctive and not vicious
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Nov 18 2003, 01:55 PM
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FUEGO! Group: New Members Posts: 836 Joined: 16-June 03 From: Bristol, land of pirates and cider. Yar! Member No.: 386 |
Slsk's the only decent prog for full albums encoded at a half decent bitrate (you can also occasionally find mpc files which tend to be almost transparent). It's also better for apps and films even if there's less choice because thanks to a much better community you get less virii and dummies (I've never encountered any at all on slsk).
[edit] Bittorrent is just as good for everything I've mentioned but only if the file's in demand at that point in time because of how it works. [/edit] |
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Nov 18 2003, 06:05 PM
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Steadily spiralling into the abyss Group: New Members Posts: 3,733 Joined: 20-March 03 From: London, UK Member No.: 154 |
QUOTE (Pab @ Nov 18 2003, 01:10 PM) easy choice: - kazaa for finding stuff when I dont know who's got it ... - slsk for ganking of people I know already ... for search results there is simply no comparison between kazaa and slsk ... kazaa has billions more files ... its unavoidable ... and debs' "no virus on slsk" thing is probably because he couldnt download any files cos there are very few anyway, and the server spends half its time on its ass .... I don't get what this whole "lack of choice" thing is. I have never not found anything I wanted... -------------------- 6:30pm
How Much Do You Reckon This Food Processor's Worth? Well? How Much Is It Worth? Come On. For F--k's Sake Just Hazard A Guess You Half-Witted Proletarian S--t - We Haven't Got All F--king Day. This Is A Game Show, Not A F--king Waiting Room. Now Spit Your F--king Answer Out Or I'll Kick You All The Way Back To Whichever P--s-Streaked Council Estate You Crawled From, So You Can Hatch The Rest Of Your Futureless Offspring In Empty-Handed Misery. Now Answer Me, C--T. Explicitly confrontational version of The Price Is Right. Shiny Blog |
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Nov 18 2003, 07:44 PM
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Remorseless posting machine Group: Moderators Posts: 5,749 Joined: 19-July 03 From: Bloody London Member No.: 466 Gender: Male |
I meant Kazaa Lite, I meant Kazaa Lite. I mean, really, who has original Kazaa?
-------------------- Every sort of expert knowledge and every inquiry, and similarly every action and undertaking, seems to seek some good. Because of that, people are right to affirm that the good is 'that which all things seek'...
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Nov 18 2003, 07:47 PM
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 Has gone untreated for blurriness since 1986 Group: Established Members Posts: 1,921 Joined: 3-August 03 Member No.: 505 Gender: Secret |
KaZaA = 60 viruses in six months. I rest my case.
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Nov 18 2003, 08:07 PM
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Steadily spiralling into the abyss Group: New Members Posts: 3,733 Joined: 20-March 03 From: London, UK Member No.: 154 |
QUOTE (CommieBastard @ Nov 18 2003, 07:53 PM) I meant Kazaa Lite, I meant Kazaa Lite. I mean, really, who has original Kazaa? Tut tut, you know how much trouble you can get in for using illegally hacked software.  Anyway, the thing's impossible to find nowdays. Soulseek is spyware-free from the word go. -------------------- 6:30pm
How Much Do You Reckon This Food Processor's Worth? Well? How Much Is It Worth? Come On. For F--k's Sake Just Hazard A Guess You Half-Witted Proletarian S--t - We Haven't Got All F--king Day. This Is A Game Show, Not A F--king Waiting Room. Now Spit Your F--king Answer Out Or I'll Kick You All The Way Back To Whichever P--s-Streaked Council Estate You Crawled From, So You Can Hatch The Rest Of Your Futureless Offspring In Empty-Handed Misery. Now Answer Me, C--T. Explicitly confrontational version of The Price Is Right. Shiny Blog |
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Nov 18 2003, 08:26 PM
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 This space intentionally left blank Group: Admin Posts: 2,368 Joined: 30-March 03 From: Venta Belgarum Member No.: 203 Gender: Male |
In my case I use my beloved ED2K (a good client can be found here) for most of my downloading needs. It's not the fastest out there, but it's damn reliable, and you get some really high quality files. The only problem is that it works best when left running 24/7, but I've got used to sleeping with the sound of fans now!
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