UPDATE: Version 02B has been released and it fixes most of the problems.
I don’t know if i should post this or not, but as i think i should review almost everything that comes out, i will do it.
Islsk 1.0b is the first native P2P iphone/ipod native Soulseek client. Although it’s still in beta, it does work pretty well.
I’ve been trying to get this client to work for the last 2 hours so I must warn you that for a lot of people this app doesn’t work standard out of the box, you will need to do some ssh’ing and hacking to your iPhone. But i’ll guide you the whole way.
1) You can locate and find the app in your installer.
2) Let’s run the app and have a look.
The first screen shows you the Terms of Use, agree them.
After this you will be asked to enter your account or create one. Just entering a username and password will automatically create a account for you.
The settings screen let’s you set some general options like:
- Auto-connect
- Max number of connections
- Max search results
- Mar results queu
- Debug log
3) Let’s go search a song. Tap the file search button. Enter a song that you’d like to have and wait for the list to populate. Chose a song and then you can watch the Transfer. After your transfer has completed, you can go to downloads and move the song to your iPod music partition.
However most of you will receive a big error message !!
Your Firewire GUID couldn’t be recognized and therefore music importing will not be available.
To solve this issue, you will need to do some hacking.
To learn how to connect to your iPhone and or iPod touch see this post.
Log in to your iPhone or iPod touch with SSH (Putty) and do the following:
1) check if you have “ioreg” binary in /usr/bin/ directory
2) If not download it from here and upload it to /usr/bin
2) Connect with putty to your iPhone and run the following commands (copy & paste )
3) chmod 755 /usr/bin/ioreg
4) chown mobile:mobile /Applications/iSlsk.app/
5) chown mobile:mobile /Applications/iSlsk.app/*
6) Download libncurses.5.dylib from here and upload only libncurses.5.dylib to /usr/lib
7) chmod 777 /usr/lib/lib*
EXTRA STEPS TO EXECUTE IN PUTTY !! IT SEEMS THAT SOME PEOPLE ARE STILL HAVING ISSUES !!
mkdir /var/root/Media/Downloads (if it already exists it’s ok)
9) chmod 777 /var/root/Media/Downloads/
This last one should fix your itunes import problem.(credit goes to Edward from Touch Podium)
10) ln -s /private/var/mobile/Media/iTunes_Control /private/var/root/Media
IF you still can’t get it to work i suggest waiting for the next release.
The full changelog for version islsk02b :
Changelog:
- Fixed the FirewireGUID error
- Fixed the import crash error
- Fixed “Transfer failed” error when trying to download an entire folder, or several files from the same user
- Bugfix when trying to import songs, where some of them werent imported and when trying again they appeared twice on music library.
- Added a donation reminder so nobody forgets about supporting iSlsk
! - Other minor bugfixes
Known issues:
- After songs are imported, Artists sorting on music library gets messed up, moving artist names under the next letter. I guess most people can live with that (until I find the solution)
- When first installed, downloaded songs *may* not appear on your downoads section. Once I restarted iSlsk, everything went fine, and downloads were there. Give me some more time to see why does this happens.
Thanks to the original creator Errrick who’s website you can consult here.
This little app is available in the Installer.app through the BigBoss packaging source, see our sources page.
Enjoy
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\\ tags: Errrick, file search button, iphone soulseek client, islsk, islsk 0.2b, p2p, p2p iphone, search results, soulseek
Sooooo Gooood….
Thanks a Lot…. =)
Thank you, it works perfect, it seems good, because when I give import, I do not appear files on the player.
To be?
i got to step 9
on step 10 it tells mi that: ln -s /private/var/mobile/Media/iTunes_Control /private/var/root/Media, already exists, any way i can download and see the finished file but when i try to import a song it says its iporting for about 2 seconds and then its goes out of the app., i cant find the song in my ipod
what should i do
Get rid of the slash behind the _Control
Take care of all the slashes!!
Hi… I’ve managed to fix the whole issue but I can’t get any search results… Ive restarted my ipod touch but still no luck
thanks
yeh i get the same problem as popo
i manage to appear to be importing the file i downloaded but it just goes back to the home screen..
maybe chipstick would be nice enough to shine some light on how he got his to work?
HELP!
ln -s /private/var/mobile/Media/iTunes_Control /private/var/root/Media
when i copy this in putty it say access denied its the last step
hey i use WinSCP i don tknow what you mean by chmod 77 and how to run the /var/root/Media/Downloads/ commands. Please help man.
Hi Guys,
If you use this instead:
mkdir -p /var/root/Media/Downloads
It won’t complain if you have the folder or not, saving you the time of checking
Vlww, deu certinho aqui..
Great! Thanks!!
I got rid of the GUID problem yay! But now when songs finish downloading, they dont appear in the downloads section Help Please
Restart your iphone and it should work!!!!!!!!!!!!!
you are the best mondrianaire!
When i enter the chown commands, i think steps 4 and 5, i get “you must apply a numeric argument to the chown command. any ideas? im using Fugu on my mac.
I did everything as you told me to do.. it worked great for the iSlsk but now my “uninstall” list on the installer is empty…
[...] it themselves and someone came up with some nice tutorial for those who wanted to fix it manually (link here). So in the mean time, you can follow those steps while I work on the next update, which will [...]
Everything works for me, the songs show up in my library but some of the songs in download dont play. Anything i can do?
Restart your iPhone!
Works perfectly!
@all having problems: you must follow the guide completely and do all the shell command for get it works… make sure command are the same on this page beforme hitting enter because you can damage your ipod/iphone with bad shell commands…after all the process in the shell write:
# reboot
now the iphone/ipod will restart himself and most of problems on connecting will solve xD
Gj man
For noobs like me…might be a long steps but it work am gonna try to break down each step in post #137
get cyberduck and mobileterminal in installer….
1) check if you have “ioreg” binary in /usr/bin/ directory (it wasnt in mine so use cyberduck transfer in the usr/bin/ folder..)
2) If not download it from the link above and upload it to /usr/bin
2) Connect with ssh/vterm from iphone or however but run the following commands: ( if you open mobileterminal and its saying mobile and not root then i think u have to put it to root by doing this command : ssh root@youriphoneipAddress then its gonna ask you for your password: alpine unless u change it)
3) chmod 755 /usr/bin/ioreg ( Put this exactly like the way its written with the space in mterminal)
4) chown mobile:mobile /Applications/iSlsk.app/ (same)
5) chown mobile:mobile /Applications/iSlsk.app/* ( same)
6) Download libncurses.5.dylib from the link above and upload only libncurses.5.dylib to /usr/lib ( Use cyberduck again to put this file in the right folder)
7) chmod 777 /usr/lib/lib* (mterminal)
8 ) mkdir /var/root/Media/Downloads (if it already exists it’s ok) (another command in mterminal)
9) chmod 777 /var/root/Media/Downloads/ (u get the idea now)
This last one should fix your itunes import problem.(credit goes to Edward from Touch Podium)
10) ln -s /private/var/mobile/Media/iTunes_Control /private/var/root/Media (this last step was driving me crazy at first cause I thought it was “in” but its a “l” its a L but not capital..LOL…
am talking ” ln -s ” ..make sure you put spaces where they go….)
11) Reboot your iphone.
man if this doesnt work for u then wait 4 the update….I tried my best
Thx a Lot for update2! Now it works perfectly
I have had this problem with any application that tries to access /var/root/Media/ . It seems that I as a root user do not have access to the directory because I get “Not a directory.” I used ziPhone so it’s possible this is a ziPhone issue.
My feeling is that no later release will work on my phone until I get this issue resolved. Is there any thread that covers this? I haven’t been able to find one. Thanks!
Below is my SSH session…
# ln -s /private/var/mobile/Media/iTunes_Control /private/var/root/Media
ln: /private/var/root/Media: File exists
# mkdir /var/root/Media/Downloads
mkdir: /var/root/Media: Not a directory
# chmod 777 /var/root/Media/Downloads/
chmod: /var/root/Media/Downloads/: Not a directory
Hi Spencer,
Do you have BSDSUBSYSTEM installed?
are u running the commands on your iPhone or via SSH?
You can try to run
su mobile
and then run the commands again
gr,
Multinova
change the ownership
chown -R root:wheel /var/root/Media/Downloads
maybe…
hi,
when i run the
# ln -s /private/var/mobile/Media/iTunes_Control /private/var/root/Media
command, an error pops up telling me :
Command ‘ln -s /private/var/mobile/Media/iTunes_Control /private/var/root/Media’
with return code 1 and error message
ln /private/var/root/Media/iTunes_Control: File exists
How can i fix this plz?
Multinova, he completed the steps of the guide and has soluconado the problem, but now I do not mind the files to the player’s library.
It is assumed that this should happen right?
To be not the amount?
When selecting a file and give it closes the import application
Thank you
Ok, So I changed all the permission’s and everything, but I still get the FirewireGUID error, but it still downloads and goes into the download tab.
Any ideas?
Or should I just wait for a new release?
well it work , the secind time i tried it , after i restarted i downloaded something else , then it didnt show up in downloads , i den restarted again , and i click on downloads and there it was i imported it to itunes but it doesnt play , , im trying another song to see if it works if not ill wait for the update
awsome,, i tried it with a another song , and it worked beatifully , nice work guys ,
ok, so i think it worked a little too well for me!! when i import the downloaded song into my library i get TWO copies of the track in the ipod app (on the iphone).
weird? anyone else get this??
After 3 days I got it to work, It’s a great app…Thanks guys
1. chown mobile:mobile /Applications/iSlsk.app/*
2. chmod 777 /usr/lib/lib*
i don’t understand these two steps..what does it mean “*” and “lib*” ??? do i have to make a new folder or what? please advise..thanks
IT WORKS :D:D:D Thanks sooo much
if anyone has tried this before and it didnt work… i tried restoring my iphone and trying again and it worked like a charm
not saying u should restore ure ipod.. just letting u know that the procedure above works
thanks again!
how do you get the iSlsk-downloaded-files to import to your iTunes Library when you connect the iPod and computer? it deletes the songs off my ipod whenever i try to sync itunes and my ipod
I’m sorry but there’s no option available to do that. iTunes will not allow that.
I sugges you use filebrowser see -> http://iphonefreakz.com/2008/05/18/filebrowser-101b/
with this app you can get the music off your iPhone and then import it in iTunes
gr,
Multinova
Ok, So no matter how many times I input the chmod 777 /var/root/Media/Downloads/ command my downloads file still doesn’t change its permissions I check using mobile finder.
Anyone got any ideas?
you shouldn’t do it with mobile finder, mobile finder will run as user mobile and not as user root.
Try to login via SSH and run the commands there.
gr,
Multinova
Right, I’m using SSH to run the commands.
I’m just using mobile finder to check if the downloads folder is perm 777.
Would it matter possibly that I’m inputting the commands via WinSCP and not puTTY?
Before I say anything, I’d like to say that this method works 100% fine and that I just downloaded and played a song.
Quick question:
Would there be any reason that the command “mkdir /var/root/Media/Downloads” wouldn’t execute properly? I had to manually create directories in /private/var/root/ (the /root/var/ directory is a shortcut to /root/private/var/) before executing “chmod 777 /var/root/Media/Downloads/”.
It works fine otherwise. iSlsk works perfectly on my iPod Touch.
Multinova, you are the answer dude! Here is my reply and additional information…
“Do you have BSDSUBSYSTEM installed?”
Yes.
-
“Are u running the commands on your iPhone or via SSH?”
SSH both Putty and WinSCP
-
“You can try to run su mobile.”
I don’t know how to use the super user Mobile. “su: user Mobile does not exist”
-
Now on my iPhone the “/private/var/root” directory does not have a sub directory named “Media.” Instead “Media” is a non accessible file- even with chmod 777. Since it is not a directory the command “mkdir /var/root/Media/Downloads” is impossible.
However using Finder I can find files downloaded from iSlsk under “~/Media/Downloads/” which is actually located at “/private/var/mobile/Media/Downloads/” so what F is with that?
Is my phone oddly configured do to ziPhone? Should I attempt to clean my phone and start from scratch? If so what method of unlocking will work with iSlsk. This is the coolest app for the iPhone so far and I am willing to go about some great lengths to get it to function properly.
it works fine for me, the only thing is how to get the song imported into itunes on my pc?
I’m using an ipod touch.
Many thanx for this app, one of the best out there
ow another thing!
when i download a song with slsk it looks like the songs in the player.app on my ipod get moved, i mean i got artist whit an a between artist whit a b standing for instance: i downloaded sean kinston, this caused the killers( artist) to get moved to the section L so killers stand by artist begjnng with a L
Help appreciated
solid guide. works perfectly
this may sound noobish but how do i use those chmod things
Hey Rob,
It depends if your using WinSCP or PuTTY if your using PuTTY just input your iPhone/iTouches IP then copy and paste the chmods in.
If your using WinSCP Log in using your IP again and go to the top where it says commands and click Terminal, or I believe (CRTL+T) is the quik key.
Hope that helps ^.^
Alright so I had this whole thing working…
After following the directions to fix the import problem, I downloaded a song and it worked perfectly.
But all of a sudden, today, after downloading, the songs wouldn’t even show up in “Downloads”. So I tried both putty, and winscp to try an fix the problem, but it keeps saying “Network error: connection timed out.”
I have no clue what’s wrong =\.
hellppp
Make sure you’ve got your iPhones IP address put in right, if someone else connects to your router it could change.
I’m positive that I’m entering it right. But it is definitely acting as if it’s changed. I can’t log into Apollo either– and youtube won’t load at all.
The IP in Settings - Wifi is the correct one right? I mean it’s the one I’ve always used, and it hasn’t changed.
is there any way of connecting to more than one peer at a time to download a file? some download speeds are ridiculous, ive seen my nan run faster, honestly
Hello multinova,
since you seem to be the answer man here i thought id ask you a question.
Its a little off topic maybe you can email me the answer so the board doesnt go too off topic.
Since i have jailbroke my iphone i have been trying to figuar out a way to transer my music to my phone with using linux. Are there ANY programs that i can transfer my music thats on my computer to my phone? ever time i connect the phone to my computer, linux thinks its a camera. any ideas??
I know you can do it wirelessly with AMAROK (amarok.kde.org) to sync vid’s you can try GTKPod, http://www.gtkpod.org/.
gr,
Multinova
unfortunitly i dont have wireless, is there a way i can either drag and drop the files to the phone or another program that i can use?
I don’t get where to put this.
-s /private/var/mobile/Media/iTunes_Control /private/var/root/Media
Yes I got this to fully work and it works great
[...] you are still having problems with the FirewireGUID issue, I strongly recommend reading this tutorial to manually fix it, it got updated for people also having problems with the import feature making [...]
hey multinova, could you please help mee…im stuck on step 3. i uploaded ioreg successfully and idnt really understant what you mean in the following steps…
Thanx after lot’s of reading and ’sshing’ And a nice reboot it worked well even with the error ‘library not loaded’ I was able to imoport into itunes
I don’t get how to do step 9
i did step 10 and now of works perfectly!!!! This is the best program ever! Thx!
tanks so much i do it mi isls is working now tanks you are the best
It sed Failed with return code 127 -s command not found.. after trying itunes code -s /private/var/mobile/Media/iTunes_Control /private/var/root/Media
im using WinSCP HELP it doesnt work….
followed all your steps!
pls pls pls help
no luck
BTW i stil hav the FirewireGUID error
tried restarting iPhone
JON,
the command -s doesn’t exist, try ln -s
Hi,
Tried that
it says In -s/private/var/mobile/Media/iTunes_Control has another error
Failed with returned code 1 and error message
In: illegal option - /
usage: In [-fhinsv] file 1 file 2
In [-fhinsv] file…. directory
link file1 file 2.
HELP!!
thanks
please copy and paste the commands. Don’t type them as it won’t be correct
you must type it exactly as it is .
Ok it works now not gettin the error…
but i cant access the mp3 files… if i click on the downloads tab in the iSlsk.app…
it doesnt show my downloaded song!
yeah i did everything it says a hundred times except restoring or updating to 1.1.4 and download a hundred songs as well so im over it and ill wait it out.
and i didnt get the songs to show up in downloads tab. any help would be cool. turned phone off and on too.
Here’s a much easier fix for the import error:
http://www.ipodtouchfans.com/forums/showthread.php?p=593919
hey dude thank you for the link, made me happy but when i tried to install it gave main script execution failes! what wrong with that?
I tried the link also, it doesn’t work for me either
I’ll keep using my own tutorial
hey multinova i ried ur tutorial but didnt work dude, i dony know why. i did exactly what u explained but couldnt fix it, suppose will wait until erric put something ot.
add this in repo
http://hijinksinc.com/i/installer.xml
and search “Firewire GUID Patch for iSlsk 0.2.2″ in the installer
enjoy…. from México cabrones
“Firewire GUID Patch for iSlsk 0.2.2″ allowed me to access the section of iSlsk without the error prompt, though causes the app to crash every time i attempt an import irregardless of how it’s done… YMMV.
the application doesnt work it gives you new errors, the import is not possible, i think the Isisk app is not designed properly thats why its not compatible with iphone/ipods.
any comments on that?
Please don’t install the patch.. it doesn’t do all the steps needed to get the app working.
If you follow the steps above, it will work.
hello guys, i finaly got this program through ziphone and am also getting this error messege, unfortunitly NONE of those steps above make ANY sence to me. Is there ANY kind soul willing to help me and walk me through the steps? PLEASE?
How do i fix the import thing and how do i find the song that i download?
I can’t get the import work cuz (it crashes and sends me back to Springboard),
What i have to do in this part?
10- /private/var/mobile/Media/iTunes_Control /private/var/root/Media
great job!thank you for the support,works great now!
ok. I’m back with another question. LOL. Since the new update fixed the GUid error, my next question is if I download a video file, how do I manually move it into my iPod area of my iPhone? Hopefully this can be fixed on the next update. LOL
That’s not possible yet
However you can watch the movies with filebrowser, check this post
http://iphonefreakz.com/2008/05/24/filebrowser-17/
the link doesn’t seem to be working. Keeps timing out.
fixed, sorry forum was acting up
I also was able to import my whole iTunes Library for sharring…this is actually a really cool app….thanks
After I’ve imported the song to the iPod on iPhone. The song is in the iPod. How do i get the song to my PC. Will automatically go in my iTunes libary if i sync my iPhone? thnx
Worked perfectly!!! Yay thanks!
ok, now not only does the avplayer i downloaded not ever work, but now somethings is wrong with my ipod player. i downloaded something last night and ever since i imported the song, the ipod on my iphone doesnt even load. all i get is a white screen and then it jumps back to the main screen…can anyone help please?
oh, and i was using the islsk to download the song. not sure if it was islsk or the file i downloaded that caused it.
I’m not sure why you are all having issues with this…… I installed this application from the installer this morning and downloaded a couple of songs and imported it directly into the library on my iPod Touch without using the computer at all. Worked flawlessly on the 1.1.4 jailbreak with WiFi at my office…. After the download was complete, I clicked on it and said import to my library and I was able to listen to it from the library and by TuneWiki (if you don’t have this, you should definitely get it!!!!!)
Thanks Erric for the awesome download!!!!!!
well mine was working too, untill last night. I posted the problem on erics main page (the creator of the islsk iPhone I believe) and very soon after he himself responded and is looking into the import issue I’m having with my iPod on my iPhone. Once he comes up with a fix I’ll ask him if he can explain what he did and I’ll post the fix here incasw anyone else gets this same issue.
wen i open mi itunes and iput new movie the music idownloading desapers helpme please
This is a well known issue, no fix available yet. If you download music, you should copy it to your local machine before importing it in itunes.
gr,
Multinova
Hi,
i copied wrong commands and pasted onto the putty, what should i do ?? will it effect to the iphone’s system ??
How can i earse it ?
tanks multinova
Hi. I have my iPhone originally sync-ed to an iBook, however, I already have sold it out. Since all of my music are in there, I have not added any songs in my iPhone for months now. And learning about iSlsk is great. I have tried downloading stuff over wi-fi but it doesn’t appear in my iPhone. Then I learned that i need to resync it to my iTunes. Problem is I don’t think I have set it to manually manage my music library. I am using a Sony Vaio now.
QUESTION: Will this automatically delete all my music in my iPhone when I try and re-sync it to my new laptop? Will it show all the music that I have downloaded using iSlsk? Help!
Hi,
i’m not sure this is the right app i’m looking for. what i need is sometimes to copy some songs from a pc at the office, while my itunes’ sync is at home.
i’d like to have these songs ready to hear immediately on my iphone.
then i’d like to add it to my itunes lib/sync when i get home.
any suggestion please?
thanks.
yes when you sinc up you click manually manage music/videos then itunes wont delete them
im not sure about something… i havent gone through every question so im not sure if someones already asked this. i was wondering if a song was not on islsk can i put it from my computer into islsk so i dont have to use itunes ( i hate itunes) any help would be great… practically the same question toto asked just im not at my offise :-p thanks for the help.
How do i download this onto my ipod in the first place?