iSlsk - P2P file sharing
Wouldn’t it be great if you could download music to your iPhone, while walking around, using peer-to-peer and for free? Well - you can.
iSlsk is a Soulseek client (I didn’t know about this P2P network, but hey - if it let’s me download music using my iPhone - it must be a good one!). And you know what? It is. App is great - it even creates a Soulseek account for you (if you don’t have one), imports downloaded music into your iTunes library, looks really nice, and, you’ll like this - runs in background (which means that you can browse the Web or reply to e-mails while your music is downloading).
There are some glitches from time to time, but it works and keep in mind that this is an early version. Currently you can not seed (give to others) songs you’ve downloaded or songs from your iTunes library, but this is promised too.
Continue to read to see screenshots.
iSlsk generated some buzz and developer errrick was interviewed on sites like TorrentFreak and even Wired.
How to install: use Installer.app (BigBoss sources). Also, please read information about some manual steps that may need to be done below.
Many (including me) were getting a message saying “Your Firewire GUID couldn’t be recognized and therefore music importing will not be available.”. Developer of iSlsk promises to fix this issue in an upcoming version, but for now, here’s what people on forums are doing to fix this (worked for me):
You will need SSH and SFTP clients (I’m using PuTTY and WinSCP on Windows, altought it is possible to get thru using only WinSCP, as it has built-in terminal (Ctrl+T)). Google for some tutorials (like this one, or this) if you’ve never done this.
Login into your iPhone over SCP
Download ioreg and copy it to /usr/bin/
Download libncurses.5.dylib copy it to /usr/lib/
Open up SSH (PuTTY or whatever you use) and execute these commands:
chmod 755 /usr/bin/ioreg
chown mobile:mobile /Applications/iSlsk.app/
chown mobile:mobile /Applications/iSlsk.app/*
chmod 777 /usr/lib/lib*
ln -s /private/var/mobile/Media/iTunes_Control /private/var/root/Media
mkdir /var/root/Media/Downloads/
chmod 777 /var/root/Media/Downloads/
