Soulseekers: iSlsk 1.0 Beta Released! (Updated)
Posted by Eric March on May 15, 2008 at 7:23 pm
For those of you who have been keeping tabs on our Argentinian friend errrick and the progress of his iPhone/Touch Soulseek client, you can stop holding your breath, as the first beta version of iSlsk has been released.
Although still in its initial beta phase, iSlsk is a pretty full-featured P2P client that lets you connect and log in to the Soulseek network, search for music, download from peers, and even directly import MP3 files right into your music library so you can listen to them with the internal iPod/Music app. iSlsk also features a background mode, so you can start transferring and then go about your normal business while it does its thing, and there are a host of the usual settings such as you would find on a desktop client
There is one current problem known that does prevent the application from working as described, and those who have experienced the FirewireGUID error know what I’m talking about. Fortunately, iPhoneFreakz has a good tutorial on how to fix this problem, and errrick will be working on a fix for his next beta release. Unfortunately, while following that tutorial did elimiante the FirewireGUID error, I was still unable to import the downloaded song into my library; iSlsk just crashed back to Springboard. Hopefully this too will be sorted out in the next release.
UPDATE: Thanks to Edwards in the comments, there is a fix for the import crashing. You’ll have to issue the following command in PuTTY or the terminal window of WinSCP: ln -s /private/var/mobile/Media/iTunes_Control /private/var/root/Media. You will now be able to import into your music library without any issues.
Despite these issues, it’s already shaping up to be the premiere P2P client for the iPhone and Touch. You can grab it from BigBoss (http://thebigboss.org/repo.xml). Have a look at the screenshots for more detail.
(Source: iPod Touch Fans)
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May 15th, 2008 at 8:44 pm
jody to fix your import problem put this in a command terminal:
ln -s /private/var/mobile/Media/iTunes_Control /private/var/root/Media
and enjoy your new songs
May 15th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
jody/eric and everybody that fix will sort things out ^_^
May 15th, 2008 at 9:46 pm
can that be entered in mobileterminal and work?
May 16th, 2008 at 6:11 am
Nice of you to advertise a file sharing network. In all honesty, who uses these things to share files that aren’t copyrighted to someone else but them?
May 16th, 2008 at 7:10 am
@James: I often use it as a way to evaluate an album before buying it. A lot of the time, with the music that I listen to, 30 second clips can’t possibly hope to convey what a song is like. If I don’t like the album, I’ll kill it. If I do, I’ll try and find out where I can buy it. I always prefer having a legitimately purchased song or album, particularly because I know it’s probably going to be free from encoding issues. (It’s amazing how many people can’t encode an MP3 properly.) I also prefer to support the artists that I like. Also, it isn’t entirely illegal in Canada. (Technically it is, but the RCMP have explicitly stated that they will not prosecute downloaders; they want the big sharers. Not that this is justification, I’m just pointing out that for the time being anyway, this is kinda-sorta okay here.)
@Edwards: Thanks! That worked like a charm. I will update the article with your info in it.
May 16th, 2008 at 7:39 am
@Edwards:
Thanks for the fix! I only experience 1 problem: If I go into my iPod on my iPhone, and view all the songs by Artist, the alfabetical order isn’t correct anymore. The last artist from section “A” is the first of section “B”. And if I import another song into my iTunes library, the last TWO songs of section “A” are the first TWO songs of section “B”. And so on… I have the same problem with all the sections from A to Z.
Got any fixes for this problem? Thanks in advance!
May 16th, 2008 at 8:46 am
now that is a weird problem and i have never heard of it, i am not having this problem so i think it might be to do with something else, all i can think of is delete all of your songs or them ones you having problems with and then re add them and they should just gpo back to normal and hopefully errick will sort this out with his update
May 16th, 2008 at 8:55 am
@Edwards:
I’ve talked to a few people with an iPodTouch, and they don’t have this problem either. It’s strange though… I’ll try your advice later on, when I’m home. Thanks for the tip!
May 16th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
no problem
May 16th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
When I open MobileTerminal on my ipod touch it says:
Shane Pod:~ mobile$
I enter:
ln -s /private/var/mobile/Media/iTunes_Control /private/var/root/Media
It then says:
-sh: In: command not found
Am I entering it in wrong? im a noob when it comes to terminal… can someone please tell me how to do it right?
May 16th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
do all this:
http://www.ipodtouchfans.com/forums/showthread.php?t=64541
then try it again!
May 16th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
@Shane: You’re entering lower-case I instead of lower-case L. (for reference, “ln” is short for “link”)
May 16th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
“Eric March said:
May 16th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
@Shane: You’re entering lower-case I instead of lower-case L. (for reference, “ln” is short for “link”)”
sorry for asking so many questions… but when I type that in it then says:
ln: creating symbolic link ‘/private/var/root/Media/iTunes_Control’ : Permission denied
and is this suppose the fix the problem I’m having where after a download is complete it doesnt show up in Downloads?
May 16th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
nooo lol that fixes the importing songs to your songs in your mobilemusic.app
now im thinking that your problem is something to do with permissions
May 16th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
all my permissions are set to 777 and it still isn’t working
May 16th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
your best bet is too contact errick on iptfs and PM him otherwise your just gonna have to wait for the update
May 16th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
@ShanePod… if by any chance you’re using the Cydia framework, your terminal app will login as mobile automatically, which might not give you permission to alter some things…. so try typing in these commands:
login
root
[your password]
then put the command in again…
May 16th, 2008 at 5:36 pm
completed downloads still arnt showing up anywhere… thanks anyways for your time!
May 20th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
Ok, that command line still wasn’t working to fix the import issue, so I entered this and it fixed it, in my case anyways.
instead of
ln -s /private/var/mobile/Media/iTunes_Control /private/var/root/Media
I wrote
ln -s /private/var/mobile/Media/iTunes_Control /var/root/Media/Downloads
Working great now.
May 20th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
Did the stuff in the guide on iphonereakz and now i have the
Same problem that Shanepod has ..
Completed downloads don’t show in the downloads tab.
I manually copied a song to /var/root/media/downloads and tried to import it into the library.
That doesn’t work either.
I’m thinking maybe the files not showing up in downloads folder may have something to do with the fact that i used bosstoool to move my apps in the media partition and maybe there is a broken link in the app somewhere. don’t know just guessing
what do you think ?
May 20th, 2008 at 6:10 pm
Ok did some more tweaking (setting permissions mostly) and i can see the files and find them in var/root/media/downloads as well as in my downloads tab in islsk
the problem i have now is i can’t get it to import the files to itunes library
i think i tried everything
May 21st, 2008 at 2:56 pm
Hey allemaal,
Voor iedereen die het FireWireGUID probleem heeft met het iSlsk programma, hier is een oplossing:
http://syn.ac/iphone/22/islsk-your-firewire-guid-couldn%E2%80%99t-be-recognized-and-therefore-music-importing-will-not-be-available/