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Best part of Napster was searching for that one song you were interested in, and then looking through all of that user's shared files. It was an amazing discovery mechanism which I missed dearly with all the subsequent P2P apps. Spotify now fills this void, but it's not quite the same.

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Definitely enjoy browsing a user's shares, and even occasionally checking what's been downloaded from me.

Soulseek goes strong https://nicotine-plus.org/

Whoa I totally forgot that Soulseek was a thing, thank you! I used to be able to find rare b-sides and live recordings of my favorite bands on it.

I had no idea that this existed.

I already found cool stuff. Thank you so much!

This brings me way back to when I hosted a Hotwire server.

Guessing you’re taking about Hotline. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotline_Communications

I ran a Hotline server for a few months, but ran KDX and Carracho servers for years. Same client-server setup as Hotline. Great communities and interesting people.

Yup, my brain glitched. That is the one.

Soulseek is absolutely awesome at this. Why don't the record labels shut it down? Have they just given up on P2P?

https://github.com/slskd/slskd/ is another nice client that runs as a daemon, and hopefully one day it will integrate with lidarr <https://github.com/Lidarr/Lidarr/issues/444> :fingerscrossed:

I'm pretty sure I discovered far more music through browsing people's Napster shares (and the file shares at LAN parties) than I ever have through the discovery features in the modern music streaming apps.

Hanging out in mates' rooms at uni, listening to and copying tunes, talking about music and software, smoking weed. This is the ultimate music discovery experience.

My personal favorite was Audiogalaxy, which had a fairly decent recommendation engine. I discovered a lot of excellent music (which I subsequently bought) through this.

I liked how you could add songs to your friends' queue, that was a great feature.

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