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picofarad

anyone remember the name of music sharing software for windows, where you'd join a server/room and you'd tell the software what folder you wanted to share, and it just worked? you could search across all "rooms" you were in, and there was a log window where it showed you all the searches hitting your computer.

this was like 2-4 years ago i used it, it was not: kazaa, limewire, emule, edonkey, XDCC, etc.

It's on a virtual HDD on a dead machine so it's a PITA to get to, so crowd sores!

it was soulseek, i'm pretty sure. thanks to everyone who helped remember!

@picofarad kinda running out of programs in that list. only ones i think you missed is like, demonsaw.
@picofarad dc++? I only ever used it for games at LANs so I don't think of it being for music, but it sounds mostly right otherwise. Not sure about the incoming search log, it may have been some other client for the same proto (I think I knew of at least one other but I forgot its name).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DC%2B%2B
en.wikipedia.orgDC++ - Wikipedia

@Zergling_man it's not [x]DC[C][++]. it doesn't use IRC - at least not obviously.

the closest thing it reminded me of was Hotline.

@Zergling_man it's more like kazaa and emule or whatever, i used that back in 2006-2008ish - it's why i know about negativland. If it was DC++ i wouldn't have had to ask. Sorry, i'm not berating you or anything!

@picofarad Yeah fair. If it were what you were thinking of, you'd have recognised it as soon as the name came up.
just use nicotine+, it's a nice soulseek client

@picofarad I think you are talking about Soulseek. It allows you to P2P share any content with others and chat with them. I use the Nicotine+ client on Linux and Seeker client on Android. I don't know anything about the Windows client.

@siina yes that was the answer 🙂