Hi Francis I've been using SS for some years now and I have to say, it never gave me any problems. It is a bit of a resource hog though from time 2 time. It's handy if you want to check out new music before ordering it online without knowing what it is you're buying... (well thats what I use it for, mainly)
Donations give you download privileges for 30 days, wich means if you do a search and you want to download one of the results, you'll end up on top of the (if any) queue. (that is, if no one else with privileges is in that queue) Furthermore, you can make a userlist and say if you wanna share with the world, or just with ppl in that list. Handy to prevent leeches from grabbing all your shared stuff. Works excellent for me, it's free, never any security issues (running XP pro so enough issues there) so I'd just say give it a try. If you want to add me to your SLSK userlist - my UN is pascal1971. Got some nice sets to share! Cheers Pascal. Hometaping is killing music - support your local recordstore! -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden: dinsdag 11 januari 2005 14:04 Aan: '313' Onderwerp: (313) P2P No not another discussion of the ethics of it - sod the ethics I'm just going to do it. I've never had file sharing software on my machine before as it's given me kind of security worries. However talking with a couple of you folks recently after I was trying to get hold of Rhythm and Sound livesets I now feel it's risk worth taking (I'm pretty good with backing my machine up) - if it's a risk at all? So before I leap lemming-like off this cliff does anyone have any last words of warning for me? Think I'm going for Soulseek since that's what I mostly hear about on here, so I guess that means it's best for 313 stuff - and hopefully for the wider musical world too? Anybody going to suggest there's a better alternative? If nobody does there are a one or two (=3) specific questions maybe somebody might be kind enough to give me a view on: Do people make 'donations'? Someone told me that this might occasionally be necessary. I gather from the Soulseek site that the version they have to download, 155, is newish, are people using this and is it stable? I also gather XP service pack 2 has given this software (and other P2P s/w also?) a headache (event ID4226 bla bla) which Soulseek recommend fixing with a patch from http://www.lvllord.de/?lang=en&url=4226patch/faq - which you should only use if you know what you're doing. Guess I'll find out whether I know what I'm doing when I do it. Has anyone come across this problem? And if so tried this fix? C'mon folks, confirm the view of those who, on hearing about a forum on Detroit techno, think "I bet they talk about loads of nerdy stuff on there".
