> 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)
as i recently discoverd, although they don't seem to explicitly say it anywhere, the more you give, the longer your privledges. i've always just given $5 and gotten 30 days. although i recently gave $7 for a friend who i owed $7. he got $45. So decided what the hey and donated $30, and i got 270 days. > > 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". > > > >
