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Very fond memories of using Audiogalaxy, and also soulseek. Soulseek especially had a community where you found someone who was into the same kind of music as

Very fond memories of using Audiogalaxy, and also soulseek. Soulseek especially had a community where you found someone who was into the same kind of music as you (obscure breakcore! japanese garage punk!) and could browse their collections, and chat to them also! What a wonderful way to make music friends and get good recommendations.

jbaiter 2mo ago
It's still there!
smcleod 2mo ago
Soulseek is still going hard.
- tomduncalf 2mo ago
  Don’t tell anyone! Haha
  - ValdikSS 2mo ago
    There's Android client as well: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.companyname.andriodapp1&hl=en https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.companynam...
    - inigyou 2mo ago
      > com.companyname.andriodapp1 And to think that if I want to publish an app I need to submit to Google for retinal scanning and anal probing to prove my identity (which wouldn't help because my identity is banned from submitting apps, but still).
      - ValdikSS 2mo ago
        It's andriod!
      - joshstrange 2mo ago
        I'm right with you on how companies can hide behind layers in ways individuals can't, I'm still salty my address is public for on the Play Store, but the text you quoted "com.companyname.andriodapp1" is just the bundle ID. It can be anything, it doesn't have to have any connection to your company or your app at all, it's just a unique string. It's only convention that most people use a reverse domain name. It's fun sometimes to see what that app was called before a pivot or what the internal name was since you can't change it (once published) without losing your users.
  - thenthenthen 2mo ago
    Well we need new users!! Audiogalaxy was super.
archi42 2mo ago
On the more legal side of services was the original last.fm - as a pupil/student I spend days/hours discovering new music there. Not only due to automatic recommendations, but a lot of time by browsing other people's listening habits - just like browsing the music collection of someone else on soulseek.
brunorro 2mo ago
Did I hear Soulseek? Look for slskd in github. I had a tear on my face when I could find people sharing japanese math rock :)
tomduncalf 2mo ago
Audiogalaxy was awesome. I loved how you could browse every file that had ever been online, rather than just what was online now, and queue them up for when they came online again. I’d just leave it running on our dial up connection when everyone went out of the house (no dedicated line so you’d clog up the phone, the good old days haha) and then come back to some exciting downloads I’d totally forgotten that I ever queued
- slackerIII 2mo ago
  Audiogalaxy dev here. That was my favorite part of the design. One of my other favorite parts was that prioritized matches based on how similar their domain name was to yours, so a lot of times you would end up grabbing files from someone in the same dorm or city (cable modem IPs had hostnames back then had the city in the name).
  - easydidit 2mo ago
    Audiogalaxy was simply great! Thanks for your service :) I always think, how different the internet was back then. Oh well, nostalgia:)
  - mat0 2mo ago
    oh man I’ll never forget that site. I remember my dad and I trying to find the name of a song to download (Endless summer nights), none of us knew any english at the time, but we loved that song. So he was listening to a recording of that song, we knew the band name but we didn’t know the song name. And by some magnificent chance I was reading the tracks in the AG ui and that part of the track played and I said to my father (in spanish) “that’s the one. download this one”. “you sure?” “yes, do it!”. downloading took so long in our dial up modem, but when we could play the track it was so amazing. the audio quality, no radio voice on top. absolute bliss. thank you
  - minikomi 2mo ago
    Thank you! Something about the site allowed for wonderful serendipity for finding music. I had a blast.
a-french-anon 2mo ago
https://nicotine-plus.org/ https://nicotine-plus.org/ for the free software/UNIX people, by the way. I don't use it anymore since getting into private trackers because the network (central server) is proprietary, the experience is much less polished than BT and I want to be sure of the release (LABEL/CATALOGNUMBER) I'm downloading.
majkinetor 2mo ago
SSK is the best of anything mentioned here. You can find everything. Community is extremely big and it is there 25 years and will hopefully be another 25. The coverage level is so good that you can find any release in loseless format. There are folks having millions of audio files and 50TB of highly organized data. I pretty much doubt it can be taken down at this point.
crowfunder 2mo ago
Obscure breakcore hell yeah! Wish SSK channel was more alive or there was a better place to network.

jbaiter 2mo ago

It's still there!

smcleod 2mo ago

Soulseek is still going hard.

tomduncalf 2mo ago
Don’t tell anyone! Haha
- ValdikSS 2mo ago
  There's Android client as well: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.companyname.andriodapp1&hl=en https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.companynam...
  - inigyou 2mo ago
    > com.companyname.andriodapp1 And to think that if I want to publish an app I need to submit to Google for retinal scanning and anal probing to prove my identity (which wouldn't help because my identity is banned from submitting apps, but still).
    - ValdikSS 2mo ago
      It's andriod!
    - joshstrange 2mo ago
      I'm right with you on how companies can hide behind layers in ways individuals can't, I'm still salty my address is public for on the Play Store, but the text you quoted "com.companyname.andriodapp1" is just the bundle ID. It can be anything, it doesn't have to have any connection to your company or your app at all, it's just a unique string. It's only convention that most people use a reverse domain name. It's fun sometimes to see what that app was called before a pivot or what the internal name was since you can't change it (once published) without losing your users.
- thenthenthen 2mo ago
  Well we need new users!! Audiogalaxy was super.

archi42 2mo ago

On the more legal side of services was the original last.fm - as a pupil/student I spend days/hours discovering new music there. Not only due to automatic recommendations, but a lot of time by browsing other people's listening habits - just like browsing the music collection of someone else on soulseek.

brunorro 2mo ago

Did I hear Soulseek? Look for slskd in github. I had a tear on my face when I could find people sharing japanese math rock :)

tomduncalf 2mo ago

Audiogalaxy was awesome. I loved how you could browse every file that had ever been online, rather than just what was online now, and queue them up for when they came online again. I’d just leave it running on our dial up connection when everyone went out of the house (no dedicated line so you’d clog up the phone, the good old days haha) and then come back to some exciting downloads I’d totally forgotten that I ever queued

slackerIII 2mo ago
Audiogalaxy dev here. That was my favorite part of the design. One of my other favorite parts was that prioritized matches based on how similar their domain name was to yours, so a lot of times you would end up grabbing files from someone in the same dorm or city (cable modem IPs had hostnames back then had the city in the name).
- easydidit 2mo ago
  Audiogalaxy was simply great! Thanks for your service :) I always think, how different the internet was back then. Oh well, nostalgia:)
- mat0 2mo ago
  oh man I’ll never forget that site. I remember my dad and I trying to find the name of a song to download (Endless summer nights), none of us knew any english at the time, but we loved that song. So he was listening to a recording of that song, we knew the band name but we didn’t know the song name. And by some magnificent chance I was reading the tracks in the AG ui and that part of the track played and I said to my father (in spanish) “that’s the one. download this one”. “you sure?” “yes, do it!”. downloading took so long in our dial up modem, but when we could play the track it was so amazing. the audio quality, no radio voice on top. absolute bliss. thank you
- minikomi 2mo ago
  Thank you! Something about the site allowed for wonderful serendipity for finding music. I had a blast.

a-french-anon 2mo ago

https://nicotine-plus.org/ https://nicotine-plus.org/ for the free software/UNIX people, by the way. I don't use it anymore since getting into private trackers because the network (central server) is proprietary, the experience is much less polished than BT and I want to be sure of the release (LABEL/CATALOGNUMBER) I'm downloading.

majkinetor 2mo ago

SSK is the best of anything mentioned here. You can find everything. Community is extremely big and it is there 25 years and will hopefully be another 25. The coverage level is so good that you can find any release in loseless format. There are folks having millions of audio files and 50TB of highly organized data. I pretty much doubt it can be taken down at this point.

crowfunder 2mo ago

Obscure breakcore hell yeah! Wish SSK channel was more alive or there was a better place to network.