slskd users behavior and individual song downloading
I use nicotine+ am constantly getting these users downloading a single song from me like a random song in the middle of an album, its constantly in [Getting Status] and then after a few minutes fails with [Connection Timeout] and retries. Or alternatively ill get someone who downloads an entire folder/album from me, then one single song is stuck and gets stuck in that same loop of single song, Getting Status -> Timeout. The one throughline between both cases is it is ALWAYS without a doubt, when I go to the users profile I see:
"A slskd user:" and a github link
Whats up with this happening? I feel bad doing it but ive resorted to having to abort a lot of these stuck single downloads. Isnt slskd just a web server containerization for slsk? Why is it im always getting these odd cases from them exclusively?
And on top of that, what is up with the influx of users downloading single songs seemingly at random? I understand some times you do just want a single song but ive been using slsk for over a decade and came back after a year or so of absence, and only recently have i seen people only downloading single songs the majority of the time, sometimes multiple individual songs from multiple folders seemingly at random. Like id say a solid 80:20 ratio of songs:albums. If i understand correctly theres some kinda botting streaming service or something that uses it? Or is it a cultural thing? What would even be the point of that? I dont want to ban because these users (mostly) do seem to actually share files but its just really odd and not what i would expect from the user base. To clarify i am very against this ai scraping and tech bro vibe coded slop ruining things i love, but from what I understand SLSKD isnt that and is just like running slsk through a container no? Or is it just a bug with SLSKD maybe?