Three, four years ago Soulseek was THE online network to find and exchange music. Looking for some obscure, independent title, you name it, you'd find it on Soulseek. Now, with the likes of Last.fm, Deezer or Pandora, there's many more ways to find and listen to music online. Yet Soulseek remains an excellent P2P network to download tunes. While the Soulseek client is easy to download and run on PC, Mac users have it a bit tougher. You'll have to use an alternative client such as this one, SoulseeX.

The application allows you to view and manage your transfers, see other users that are connected and even chat about latest tunes or suggestions on what to download. SoulseeX is organized in a multi-windowed interface, which some users hate. I'd prefer everything to fit into one window, but still believe that the multi-window feel gives you more freedom to organize it on your screen.

In terms of performance, SoulseeX is known to be a big buggy and can crash every now and then. It does connect quickly to the Soulseek network though and is easy to install. The really worry with SoulseeX though is that it hasn't been updated since April 2006, meaning any bugs you have with your current version will remain.

Although a bit buggy and fitted with an awkward interface, this remains the best Soulseek client for Mac.

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SoulSeek may not be as popular nowadays as it used to be a few years, but it still remains an excellent way of exchanging music with other users. SolarSeek is a friendly Soulseek client built specifically for Mac.

If this is your first time using SoulSeek, you should appreciate the SolarSeek interface. It makes it easy to connect to SoulSeek, search for tracks, via the search box on the top left, and view all your uploads and downloads.

An important part of SoulSeek is its own community. SolarSeek lists your friends, chat rooms and chats, so you can engage with other users and discuss about or give suggestions on music and artists that you enjoy. I have to admit you can easily spend hours just talking about music and you'll find pretty passionate people in the different chat rooms.

Like with other peer to peer apps, you'll have to open up ports and select directories to upload and download files. Luckily, the first time you start up SolarSeek, the application will allow you to take care of these.

SolarSeek has not been updated for a while, however going on the developer's site, you'll see that the team is hard at work on version 1.0, which hopefully should include lots of new features. We also hope it will get rid of the instability, all too common in the current version.

Although it's a little unstable, SolarSeek offers an intuitive interface by which to connect to the SoulSeek network.

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