r/Soulseek

So far I've been manually banning users I catch downloading the same song over and over again and it got me thinking - wouldn't it be great if we could compile and share a community blocklist of users engaging in this kind of behavior?

I acknowledge that this opens up a can of worms re: potential for abuse and people being unfairly added to such a list. My response to this is that people can simply change their usernames anyway, whereas if you're enough of a cavalier shithead to use these streaming clients in the first place, you probably aren't aware you can do that. And you also probably won't notice that you've been blocked in the first place.

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Hi everyone,

I am new to the music downloading game and i am trying to hear the difference of percitible quality between the files an online app like spotifydownloader and soulseek sourced files. In my headphones i am not sure I can hear a which is which. I want these files for djing. I have to say that the spotifydownloader is very convenient but I want the best possible quality. Both files take the same space (11.1 mo) and both are MP3. It's possible I took a compressed file in soulseek, I took the first one, should I look for a specific format before downloading? Thanks

Hey I have a macos which version is less than 13
thats all I have
how else can i download those albums then?

P.s: I noticed some people are downvoting most of comments on this post! to the people who commented below I appreciate who tried to help me, I did not downvote anyone

Hi, I don't really know computers or port thingies at all(or this whole megabit vs megabyte thingie??). I just share and DL. I have 1gig upload/download so it should result in decent upload speed yet on soulseekQt I get around 1500kb upload speed average amongst 20+ different user downloading hundreds of files. However on nicotine+ that I just installed today, I got 35-60mib/s upload on some of the same files I've uploaded through soulseek before. Is there some setting I'm missing?

From your experience, is soulseek a reliable source in obtaining lossless flac audio files? Have you encountered transcoded “lossless” files? And if yes, what are some methods to verify the files?

Everyone says super easy to find anything well whatever keywords I use n shit I can't find these at all

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Spent way too long on this. Nicotine+ would connect fine, run for somewhere between 10 and 30 minutes, then drop. Auto-reconnect would fail repeatedly for several minutes before eventually coming back — but only if I changed the server port. Switch to 2242, works again. Switch back to 2416, works again. Didn't matter which port, just had to change it.

I went down the usual rabbit holes. UPnP lease expiry (my listening port is manually forwarded so not relevant). ISP throttling (I'm on FiOS, and the connection always came back on its own eventually, which ruled that out). Soulseek server flakiness. Nothing fit perfectly.

Eventually I pulled the IPS logs on my UDM Pro and found this firing right at the moment of every disconnect:

ET MALWARE NanoCore RAT Keepalive Response 3

NanoCore is a RAT, and apparently the Soulseek server's keepalive packets match its C2 heartbeat signature byte-for-byte. So after enough traffic flowed, the IPS would catch a keepalive, decide it was malware, block the connection, and then keep blocking reconnection attempts to that IP for a few minutes. Changing the server port forced a reconnect which reset the flow state and bought more time until the next keepalive.

Fix is easy once you know what you're looking for: in the UniFi threat management logs, find the blocked event and hit "suppress signature for source IP" on it. Took about 10 seconds.

Hopefully this saves someone else the headache.

To rap in Spanish, US English, UK Grime, German or Arab brings a lot of different flows.

Also musically a lot of bands everywhere in the world use local/traditional music in their productions which also brings a lot of different sounds.

I really love that and I'd like to find more hiphop artists doing so.

Would you have suggestions of artists

* rappin their own language

* production inspired by traditional/local music or instrument

* **let's keep USA away this time**

* Since I'm French speaker from Belgium I already know a shit ton of **French artists, so you may keep them away too unless it's from the DOMTOM**

Hi all,

sorry if this has been asked before, is there a WWW plug-in for nicotine plus? I’m currently running SLSKD as a headless server and need to be able to access it to do a file search & download.

The problem is I’m coming into almost 500 K files and the SLSKD update takes forever and is required because of periodic table drops versus the nicotine app which is more stable, does partial updates and has plugins.

Thanks

I've noticed that many album folders on slsk include a m3u or m3u8 file, but why make a playlist of an album? Is there any advantage to storing a m3u when the tracks are numbered and tagged? I've been deleting them but now I'm wondering if I'm missing out on something lol

I'm using an xbps Void Linux package of Nicotine+ and it's crashed a couple times in half an hour of use.. 3 crashes from trying to set the download output folder to ~/Music so I just left it, and then it crashed again when I was trying to set a download filter.

Anyone had these issues before? Maybe lacking a dependency or two? Maybe a better soulseek client out there? New to this

im very new to soulseek and would like to share some of the things ive downloaded and others, but im worried about these uploads using too much of my internet and possibly slowing down other things im trying to run. If someone could advise me on what settings i could change to prevent this that would be great 😄

Hey!

I’ve just gotten into this whole scene and I’m trying to understand how risky it really is today. If you only download music for your own personal listening (without sharing or uploading anything), but most of it is popular or newly released stuff, is there still a realistic chance of being sued over it?

Has anyone here seen any recent cases of people getting taken to court or facing legal issues just for this kind of use, or had any problems themselves? Is this something I should genuinely be worried about?