soulseeX - 1.0b6

I used Soulseek on my PC for a long time... it is the best. I got a new Mac, but Soulseex will not even open on it. I have downloaded the program from several different sites, including this one, but it always acts the same. It downloads, I click on the snowman and it appears in the toolbar and asks if I will allow incoming connections, to which I reply yes (allow) and then nothing happens. My firewall is set to allow connections for soulseex and my computer and OS are brand new, so does anyone know what is preventing this program from opening for me? Limewire does not even come close and I can't stand it! I want my Soulseek(X) back! Thanks so much if you can help!

While getting a bit long in the tooth, soulseeX still is a great client, the best Mac Soulseek client there is. Unfirtunately it doesn't seem to behave well for some random users. There's one thing though, that you have to try first, if ssX keeps on filling your HD: Turn off logging in ssX. An application restart once on a while won't hurt either.

The developer is busy keeping the slsk server running and also contributing to the further development of the official (Windows) slsk client. Expect ssX to be updated after that is out of the way. When will that be? Dunno, maybe in 6 months, maybe in a year, but meanwhile I'm still (after >3 years of usage) happy with the current release.

I wish I had whatever "ssX" the other reviewers seem to be so happy with - because the one I have is buggy and unstable.

What do I hate about this program?

First of all: the mother of all memory leaks. Whenever I leave this thing open, gigabyte after gigabyte of my hard drive's free space slowly disappear as more and more swapfiles are written. Opening this program is a great way to use up all your hard drive's free space in a few short hours, and I don't mean with downloads.

Then: once it's consumed your hard drive, you start getting errors that say "Connection failed". Nothing of the sort is happening - it just can't write to your hard drive.

So you quit & restart the program. SURPRISE! IT HAS FORGOTTEN ALL YOUR IN-PROGRESS DOWNLOADS! Hope you remember what you had in progress, because your download screen is now empty, empty, empty and you'll have to search for everything you were downloading, find it all over again, and re-queue it all by hand! Nice, huh?

Of course, that's assuming the people you were downloading from even still show up in the search results. Because it doesn't find people who are clearly on line because they turn up in other searches, and then if I open their share files I can see that they are sharing the files I was looking for, it just didn't show them in the search results no matter how many times I tell it to search again. It seems pretty random who it finds and who it doesn't.

The reason I'm writing this review is because all of the above just happened to me in the last 20 minutes.

There is no soulseek client for OS X.

Top software for sharing! No trouble and very fast connection!!!! AMAZING !!!!!!!!!!!!

i have used this for a wile now but just started using solarseek witch is much better, looks better feels better, constanly being updated and is very stable and very easy to use. y use this it trys to look good whay do you needs all them windows for, the solarseek interface looks much nicer and is easy to use y have 6 windows for one program, TRUST ME INSTALL Solarseek Its Much Better