🎼 ⤑ music, and the internet..
..have come a long way. As did we, didn't we not. But only today, which appears to be.. December 2nd, 2025, I realised wistful will be the vibe of this yet another ever in need of rewriting blogpots, on music & the internet, a match made in heaven if not for what time has made of them. A touch of THC sets us on our merry way in. one. two.. 😶🌫️
RED — WCD après le Deluge
..was the first oh so cleverly compact stub header here. 😒 WCD refers to What.CD, for all intents and purposes the ancestor of RED, referring to Redacted, a private torrent tracker devoted to music. As an ancestor, it, too, of course, had origins, but this isn't a bible book where things just start begetting things begetting things.
Ah the bible.. Somehow always there to show us some narrative. For it is hell!
at the end of the road people like this
u/DevYukine @Github pave for us with,
presumably, nothing but good intentions. They come along something beautiful,
and decide to make it better, in the process however killing its soul.
Without even realising it! I'm sure, but no harm done.
Omitting the Deluge from the story for now, the soul brings us to the second
stub header that was on this entirely not gitt- or
otherwise needlessly versioned page:
Soulseek — Napster après la lettre
Save our souls! 🎶 Lest they be taken from us by the ${deezloaders}.
🎵 The patient 🇦🇺 Australian,
the greedy 🇬🇷 Greek,
the 🇲🇽 mesoamerican black
metal fan,
the 🇪🇪 Estonian treasure chest..
Who here remembers Napster? 🙂 Wistful was to be the vibe here, and Wikipedia confirms no less than 25 years have passed.
🤖 REST OF PAGE TO BE REWRITTEN BE --
Yes, deezloading, as opposed to the noble tedious art of ripping CDs, never mind vinyl. Not as it used to be, for not better, just worse – in that regard like many things, come to think of it. What regard? The loss of our souls to those of us playing games. Turn something into a game, and it will meet its end.
In earnest, Soulseek is quite something. Surviving
all the way back from yonder days –
Wikipedia tells us its initial release
was April 2001 :l – till today.. A feat as remarkable as are some of the
people on it. They just may be a reasonable reliable.. eh, cross section
of online humankind? Sure need to find me better words to describe how SLSK's
userbase does indeed reflect, paint a picture of the many faces.. ehmhuman..
soulkind.. 🤷
But! since "today" (Thursday July 10th 2025 if you must know) has officially ended about an hour ago, I'll have to postpone coming up with the bit more context. Meantime, even if with the aforementioned a-changin' times I've learnt to be less irkable, I often get irked by bad manners. Therefore, henceforth..
Some longgg overdue naming & shaming!
Someone has to be the first asshat to be named & shamed; in this case it was..
🇪🇸 u/Domly
Quite a haughty asshat! Enters a file sharing network without sharing a single
file. Then, when a plugin kindly automatically informs him of it, says he's new
❲even though later some quickly grepped
logs show the fucker having been around at least once before, in October 2024❳
and “i will be soon with more music”.
And, with the silly abundance of ellipses presumably reflecting his fiery
Mediterranean temperament, that “.............yo tengo el original” 🙂 –
referring to the original vinyl, as opposed to this shabby mp3 which he has me
downloaded “de una pagina rusa”, and is downloading himself right now.
Sanctimonious chauvinist pendejo writing in unsolicited Spanish..
Too bad his download wasn't even particularly particular, 356 people
"have" it on Discogs
ffs. Means there's probably nothing he'd ever want to find that isn't shared
plentifold by others already, so I'll never have the ephemeral pleasure of
saying “great, go listen to your /oɾixiˈnal/ vinyl then, I'll share these my
inferior rusty kilobytes with a Russian friend in need”. Nor will I ever be
gently explaining this confused fellow human soul there could be more between
heaven and earth than «/Mpt̪ɾes/», and making puffy promises never to keep.
Then again, this cross-section of online souls of course shan't consist of bad vibes only. Quite the contrary! Like IRL, most people are fine people. Some of them..
Odd, or mysteriously confusing..
Like earlier today, being this Friday August 22nd of 2025:
🇸🇮 u/dizrabonna
Offered me some .wav's without rhyme or reason? 🤔
12:45:46 [hyptonoad] Hi - this is just an automated message. It seems you don't
share much, be better if you did. o/
12:46:18 [dizrabonna] minimal ways, hehe
12:50:53 [hyptonoad] 🤔🙂🙋
12:53:16 [dizrabonna] 😋
12:54:10 [hyptonoad] 🤔🙂 (:
12:54:25 [dizrabonna] there's something in the Fire folder for you
12:55:58 [hyptonoad] And why, perhaps, for me? :l
12:58:48 [dizrabonna] you seem like a nice guy
12:59:03 [dizrabonna] i have a hunch about online communication
12:59:59 [hyptonoad] Govorite v ugankah. (:
13:00:47 [hyptonoad] And I need to go do stuff though. :/
13:00:58 [hyptonoad] Weird comms here. May catch you later! o/
13:03:17 [dizrabonna] maybe, take care
13:03:46 [hyptonoad] 🤔
Or they just genuinely..
..just didn't get the settings all set
..like later that, and the next day, Saturday morning..
🇪🇬 u/AhmedBN
17:35:54 [hyptonoad] Hi - this is just an automated message. It seems you don't
share much, be better if you did. o/
09:35:27 [AhmedBN] I want to, I still need to understand how to do it. Sorry for
the incompetance and thank you for the message
09:36:30 [hyptonoad] No big deal!
09:43:32 [AhmedBN] I tried to put all my floders in the shared section of the
prefrences, I thought I succeded but it doesn't seem like I
did. If you have any advices I would be very glad to hear
them
09:46:18 [hyptonoad] Eh.. Right now it shows 0 shared, so a setting must be off. :/
09:47:05 [hyptonoad] Maybe you need to find some button to "rescan" shares, or
some such.
09:53:42 [AhmedBN] waybe if I could show you a screenshot
09:53:55 [AhmedBN] do you think it's possible on Soulseek?
09:55:14 [AhmedBN] Now I get it
09:55:34 [AhmedBN] I moved all my library from C: To B:
09:55:50 [AhmedBN] but I can't get to change it
09:55:54 [AhmedBN] I'll keep trying
09:55:58 [AhmedBN] thanks again
09:56:18 [hyptonoad] No thanks needed; no big deal, as I said! Let's see.
09:56:47 [hyptonoad] I now see a folder called MODMUSIC, but it's empty.
09:57:16 [AhmedBN] I think I just did it !
09:57:28 [AhmedBN] how about now?
09:57:55 [hyptonoad] Yeh works! (:
09:58:51 [AhmedBN] great ! Thanks a lot, it means a lot, I'm quit a disaster
with informatics and I'd hate to appear greedy
09:59:01 [AhmedBN] you've been very helpfull
09:59:09 [hyptonoad] You're an exception to care. (: Take care!
..and some of them truly confusing..
🇧🇪 u/kezkondizko
An actual conversation was had, but left unfinished. 🤷 Be like 📣 in the 🌫️ or of course mere 😶🌫️
20:05:57 [kezkondizko] Hoi, ik wou je een vraag stellen <...> 20:13:23 [hyptonoad] Maar dat was 4 dagen geleden <...> 12:30:16 [kezkondizko] c u next time <...> 14:16:52 [hyptonoad] Maar hmh, internet text comms <...>
All souls aboard! 🫡