search for same file

[flipie]

DC++ and Soulseek for Windows have a nifty feature where you can right click (in queue / download list, or in search results) and search for the same file. This is useful if the person you are downloading from has a big queue or is not online or has vanished of the Earth whereas you don't want to redownload the whole release.

DC++ uses TTH (checksumming) so this works far better there as it guarantees the searched files are exactly the same as the one you were downloading (but cannot get for whatever reason). This opens paths for more reliable distributed content although on Soulseek we don't seem to care for that, or checksumming.

[daelstorm]

Searching for a file via your downloads list? quite doable

[OffHand]

Any ETA daelstorm?

[daelstorm]

added filename searches to the downloads popup menu a few weeks back in r490

the checksum thing is tricky, since slsk.exe users and the server, don't appear to support it

[offhand]

find by checksum won't happen due to the nature of the slsk protocol.