Weekend Yield

Submitted by Nir on Sat, 01/12/2013 - 22:55

As many of you already know, I now have a full-time job that's keeping me horribly busy and leaving me barely able to see straight at the end of each day. Still, I try to do at least one thing every weekend in way of improving SoulseekQt, be it fixing a serious bug, or adding a feature or two that's been sitting in the feature requests list for a while or that I would like to see added myself. Tonight's build is the sum total of my work over the last few weekends since the previous release. I haven't had time to thoroughly test some of the fancier new features, so let me know if anything doesn't work as it should and I'll try to fix it as soon as possible. Here's what's changed:

  • A toggle in the uploads tab now allows you to set the client to finish all existing uploads and quit. No new uploads will be allowed, no search results will be returned, and after about five minute of all existing uploads no longer being queued (just in case any aborted uploads are retried), the client should exit quietly.
  • An ordered history of your previous searches is now available via a dropdown, much like in the original Soulseek client.
  • You can now choose to receive room activity alerts via a toggle. When anything is said in the room, you'll receive a run-of-the-mill alert. Plus you can set a sound for it in Options->Notification Sounds. Should be useful for low-traffic rooms.
  • Client data should now be saved in case of an abrupt shutdown, such as often happens when rebooting or shutting down the operating system.
  • Lowering the number of upload slot to less than the number of currently active uploads should no longer start all users' uploads.
  • Select Application Colors button should now work.
  • Added new icons to transfers tab action bar and context menus.

Links, as always, are available on the download page.

Thanks, Nir

Comments

Submitted by PracticalChaos on Sun, 01/13/2013 - 05:20.

Client freezez after a minute. Don´t know what it is. Im on lates OSX.
Had to revert back.

Submitted by Nir on Sun, 01/13/2013 - 19:19.

That's worrisome. No really critical code has changed since the last version so I find it hard to guess what might be causing this, but I'll keep my eyes and ears open for any further evidence.

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Submitted by psynaturecybine on Sun, 01/20/2013 - 13:03.

i can confirm that using windows 5.1

Submitted by JeromeBertrem on Mon, 01/21/2013 - 12:18.

I am experiencing the same problem. My computer runs on Windows 8

Submitted by Nir on Mon, 01/21/2013 - 23:13.

How long does the freeze last? How soon does it happen from the moment you start the client? Does it keep happening after that? If so, how frequently? Does it still happen if you start the client and do nothing? Is this only happening with the latest version of the client?

edit: Windows users, in addition to answering the above questions, can you please also try this build and tell me if it works any better for you:

http://www.slsknet.org/SoulseekQt/Windows/SoulseekQt-1-21-2013.exe

Thanks, Nir

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Submitted by psynaturecybine on Tue, 01/22/2013 - 07:46.

in my case program will hang for several seconds a minute after start to check for newly shared files, then it works for some time and RANDOMLY hangs for good(that means it won't get to normal state no matter what i do, and how much time will last). sometimes it happens just in few minutes after start, sometimes after few hours, but sometimes not in days. it happens without any interaction as well (program minimized, only uploads active). does linked here version has reverted file scanning to 1st thread?(if so it's not for me) anything else? thanks.

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Submitted by psynaturecybine on Fri, 01/25/2013 - 03:35.

sadly, build 1-21-2013 does not solve this issue

Submitted by Nir on Sat, 01/26/2013 - 10:46.

Is this also happening with the 12/6 build?

Submitted by PracticalChaos on Wed, 01/30/2013 - 09:40.

I have to forceclose the app and reboot.
What i noticed is that if i have put something on download before the freeze, it removes them on restart.

Submitted by purep on Sun, 01/13/2013 - 14:05.

Thanks for your continuous work Nir. Much MUCH appreciated.

Submitted by Nir on Sun, 01/13/2013 - 19:19.

Thank you purep!

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Submitted by woolworm on Mon, 01/14/2013 - 04:27.

Thanks a lot!

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Submitted by psynaturecybine on Tue, 01/15/2013 - 03:45.

congratulations on Your new job; please keep those updates coming! have You ever considered opening this client, or at least look for some help from other people with it?

Submitted by Nir on Sat, 01/19/2013 - 15:35.

Thank you! I have no interest in open-sourcing SoulseekQt at this time, but it's not off the table for the future.

Submitted by purep on Wed, 01/16/2013 - 13:52.

Some uploads don't finish eventhough they are at a 100%. Removing them results in like a 5 to 10 second freeze before slsk returns to normal. Not sure if this behavior is only in the latest build. I'm on Win7 SP1 64-bit.

Submitted by andihow on Fri, 01/18/2013 - 12:25.

just made this account to personally say thank you for such a phenomenal piece of software.

Submitted by Nir on Sat, 01/19/2013 - 15:36.

Thank you!

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Submitted by psynaturecybine on Sat, 01/19/2013 - 05:40.

let us get rid of "complete" and "downloading" folders!

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Submitted by psynaturecybine on Sun, 01/20/2013 - 05:55.

where can i find chat logs? mouse hoovering at "Log private chat" could show tooltip with location. also, what is the file that stores my shared files list? when i press dump data, nothing happens, or something does, but i don't know where? thanks.

Submitted by Nir on Sun, 01/20/2013 - 13:15.

To open the folder containing your logs, open a chat log of one of the rooms, then use the 'Open Log Folder' at the top. Your list of shared folders is stored in the client configuration file in binary format. The Dump data function creates an (also binary) snapshot of your client's data at that moment in time, and is only used for diagnostic purposes.

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Submitted by dserodio on Wed, 01/23/2013 - 09:12.

The Mac OS X application icon is gone on this release.

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Submitted by dennso on Thu, 01/24/2013 - 23:53.

Thanks a lot but the icon fly away in this release :-)

Submitted by Nir on Sat, 01/26/2013 - 10:43.

Sorry about the OSX icon, I'll get it fixed in the next build.

Submitted by B.side on Wed, 02/06/2013 - 02:59.

Hi friends
is the QT version still in beta ?

Submitted by Nir on Wed, 02/06/2013 - 10:48.

It's in constant development, beta is just a label.

Submitted by jonah01 on Sun, 02/10/2013 - 15:24.

Hi Nir,
Sorry for my ignorance if this has already been requested or talked about but will we be able to search for files in our userlist like we could in the old version of Soulseek ?

Regards
Carl

Submitted by Nir on Mon, 02/11/2013 - 13:50.

Hi Carl, to search your user list, select User List in the Search Target box next to the Search button.

Cheers, Nir

Submitted by jonah01 on Thu, 02/14/2013 - 06:32.

Thanks Nir, very cool ! Cheers

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Submitted by doomkrad on Sun, 02/17/2013 - 00:44.

Special Thanks and Notification Sounds area tweak

I just installed Build 2013.2.12 and it works great so far. I'm a genuine music nuttah and want to thank you for a great application!
There are a couple of things that I wish to bring to your attention:
1. I also noticed a 'freeze' in the beginning. It _could_ have to do with the size of my Shared Folder (131GB)...
2. I found some unintrusive .wav notification files and put in a .../SoulseekQT subfolder. After using Select File to link a .wav to an event I moved to another notification in the setting list, pressed Select File again and noticed that the opened folder was still .../SoulseekQT and not its said subfolder. If it's not tedious work it would be great if you could make the GUI remember the last visited folder.
Other than that, all looks perfect, the 'program interface' is sleek, simple and intelligent, I'm over the moon! =)

Best regards,
Valentin

Submitted by Nir on Mon, 02/18/2013 - 23:02.

Thank you Valentin! The freeze is indeed related to the size of your share. The scanning of shared folders is done in the background, but the processing of the contents of each folder is done in the main thread, so the application will pause if it has a lot of data to process. One of the trade-offs of using a more sophisticated data management system I suppose... I'll look into having the file dialog memorize the last opened folder.

Thanks, Nir

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Submitted by doomkrad on Wed, 09/04/2013 - 06:10.

Thank YOU, Nir! ^_^

Best regards,
Valentin

Submitted by nemo317 on Sun, 02/17/2013 - 21:38.

I have used your service for the past eleven years and I must say thank you. Will keep donating and will pass on to my kids.

Submitted by Nir on Mon, 02/18/2013 - 18:47.

Thank you for the kind word and support nemo! It's stuff like this that motivates us to keep Soulseek alive!

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Submitted by kingal73 on Tue, 02/19/2013 - 23:24.

Nir you da man! Thx for all your hard work to keep SoulseekQT alive & kicking.

Submitted by Nir on Sat, 02/23/2013 - 17:32.

Thanks kingal!

Submitted by nilux on Mon, 02/25/2013 - 13:58.

Hi, thanks for the build!

If soulseek represent too much work, why don't you make it an open source project and put it on github? Thanks to this you could get people to help you fix bugs and add new functionality!

Submitted by epsonsalts on Sun, 09/21/2014 - 13:12.

Hi Nir,
Is it possible to have have 2 folders to share.
One for everyone, and the other for family and friends?
I have files to send which are too big to E-mail!
I thought I had found a page which said "add another share Folder", or something similar, but I can't find it
again (Was it even there?)
Yours
Epsonsalts

Submitted by epsonsalts on Sun, 09/21/2014 - 13:21.

Incidentally, This is a great resource. Thanks for building it. Someone said its been around for 11 years.
Where was I all that time?
10/10 for your efforts.
I've had no problems at all, although I can see that some who access my files seem to stop and start, whilst most leech without problem.
I have had no problems leeching.
Great program.
Epsonsalts

Submitted by Nir on Sun, 09/21/2014 - 15:02.

Hi epsonsalts,

Thank you for the kind word! Under SoulseekQt, you can share as many folders as you want each with different permissions by going to to the Options->File Sharing tab and clicking the 'Share Folder' button at the top. Folders can be shared with specific user groups, which can be assigned to users on your user list by right-clicking their username and selecting 'Set User's Groups'. Let me know if you can't find any of these settings.

Thanks, Nir