I have some questions about soulseek. (Hopefully this fits here) (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by Sentry64@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Hello, i've been thinking about using soulseek for the very first time to download some music and such. I had a couple of questions from the c/piracy community.

Do i need to stay logged in on soulseek even if i am or am not sharing stuff? Obviously i can't be online and have my pc powered on 24/7 as i have a life outside the web (and other things aswell). so i hope that's understandable as to why i asked, i was worried i'd get banned if i don't be online like all the time.
Would a vpn work just fine with soulseek even if the vpn has support for port forwarding? There's an obvious reason as to why i'd use one.
Which soulseek client should i use, Nicotine+? or soulseek's actual client (i use Linux Mint, in case y'all were wondering. I might move to debian though!)

That's all i want to ask for now, hopefully these aren't dumb to ask. I'll be waiting for replies (might not reply to all of them so i apologize), thanks!

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[-] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 9 months ago

Nicotine+ is great.

If Docker is your thing, slskd is good.

[-] nfms@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago

I was using Nicotine+ but having slskd on my server is a plus

[-] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 8 months ago

When you get the config dialed in, the simplicity makes it 10x better than N+ in my opinion.

[-] nfms@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago

Any tips? Anything that stands out to you?

[-] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

No tips, I just didn't find the configuration process very intuitive. This was compounded by my needing to essentially translate some of my preferred N+ settings to the slskd yaml config.

[-] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

I could not figure out how to actually log into slskd

[-] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 8 months ago

Per the readme,

Once the container is running you can access the web UI over HTTP on port 5030, or HTTPS on port 5031. The default username and password are slskd and slskd, respectively. You'll want to change these if the application will be internet facing.

[-] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago

Ha sorry, wasn't specific, to the soulseek network after, it errors out with: Failed to reconnect: "Username may not be null or an empty string (Parameter 'username')

I remember creating an account... Somewhere? (it's been months since I initially attempted lol)

[-] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 8 months ago

Ah, hmm. I just set my account with the vars SLSKD_SLSK_USERNAME and SLSKD_SLSK_PASSWORD

[-] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

Alright I got through that lmao, figured out where to put my slskd creds in the config file after it's running, now to figure out why I can't search for anything. I see rooms and users just fine

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

And Seeker if on Android.

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