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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[-] 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

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