r/Soulseek

Hi everyone!

I was wondering whether I could use Soulseek to upload a bunch of academic papers or something like that? I get access from my University, and I have been archiving quite a bunch of papers. Like everything capitalistic, the academic publishing houses have paywalled research that tax dollars have funded, and I would like to make them available.

I was wondering if others have done that before, and was also wondering about the legal ramifications of the same.

Any opinion would be appreciated and do let me know if it's a viable option!

Every time I boot up my computer to run the Soulseek network some person tries to rip a file and it keeps repeatedly saying "connection timeout" and failed and it's really annoying when it pops up on my screen. I've clicked on ignore user and ignore ip but they just keep coming back. What do I do? I tried to load their user profile, it says that it is unable to load user profile and that they either have a closed listening port, or that I should check my connection. I have messaged them about their download failing and that they should try somebody else for said rip. What do I do?

So I know most of you don't care at all about what is stopping me from sharing but here it is anyway, and I am new (like first time used soulseek 3 days ago new) to this stuff so correct me if I am wrong: So apparently i need a static IP address for port forwarding but the only viable router options in my country only provide CGNATed IP addresses which prevents me from being able to share files if I am right? And for the people who are gonna say "just use a vpn that lets you port forward" I CAN'T OK I am don't have infinite money I am a f'in kid according to most of you and my dad isn't really tech savvy enough to understand this shii.

I tried to download some files from Soulseek (a peer-2-peer file sharing programme) but something wierd happened. The order of events is as follows

Downloaded files into my chosen location> clicked into that location in file explorer>clicked on folder with the username of the person I downloaded them from> clicked on the folder that the files were sitting on to check they were there (they were)> dragged the folder that the files were sitting in out of the folder with the username in it> clicked back into the folder that the files were sitting in> the folder was empty.

Does anyone know what’s going on?

[SOLVED]

new here dl 16gb still no one dl from me been a day

i have a large collection well organized is something wrong possibly or i need to wait

Now i know that its good to share files so it keeps the soulseek ecosystem alive and all, but is it legal? Like if u download a song is it legal to share it?

music producer with a peg leg here, haven’t ever been able to get any traction with my work so i’ve just been doing remixes of songs and hosting the original albums on soulseek and throwing my remix on as a bonus track. it’s not like i’m replacing any songs from the album or anything, just adding, but just wondering if anyone else does this?

Hello all, I am learning python this past few weeks. I feel like it will do both me and the community some good to populate the plugins menu with some more, seeing as there is so little.

I would like to crowdsource some ideas some nicotine+ plugins. So far I have a custom theme one made existing (not finished!), shitlist/ignore users who say keywords, which also adds the feature to ignore someone for a certain amount of time. last one is a fringe idea... but it will collect the /nowplaying output of other users in chat, save it to a log and show the log in a tab in nicotine+ named "Listenings" (not sure what to call it yet.)

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Hi everyone!! I'm currently using SoulseekQt in the last couple of months, I really re-discovered the pleasure to search, organize and share my files with others!!

I was wondering what software you guys use and what do you prefer between SoulseekQt and Nicotine+, because I would like to give it a try.

Back to the title, how can I switch between SoulseekQt and Nicotine+ correctly? I have some complete downloads, some in queue and some in downloading. Any tips? Thank you!

I'm kind of new to soulseek and I try to search for an artist name like MJ, gun n 🌹 and others it just does not show anything unless I type the album's name. Sorry if my English isn't that good

Or maybe i’m to old 😅
Remember meeting cool people circa 2000//2005

Why are you using proveit? You have your library shared and available, why add an additional step to make sure I'm human? It's frustrating as hell when I'm trying to get a discography from a buddy and it's prevented until I enter "horse balls" into a chat. Why?

Using n+ on Ubuntu, does the entire file path along with my computer name show as viewable?

I have a pretty good selection of music, around 4,600 songs and all of it in 320 CBR. I'm running slskd on Promox and for grabbing it's working fine but I'm surprised nobody is downloading from me - it's been running for a week.

I asked a friend to search me up, he was able to and downloaded a few GB of content without a problem - so everything seems to be good. I wasn't sure if I had to open a port or not.

Is it normal that people may not download often? Maybe it's my collection isn't big enough yet - I've recently parted ways with streaming services.

Hi everyone, sorry, this is my 1st post on Reddit, please be kind with a noob.

I have a media collection (mainly movies and tv shows, some music too | almost 30 Tb) that I'd love to share via Soulseek, but I'm pretty afraid about doing so because, on 2021 I got ransomwared and lost about 15 Tb of files, some of them as old as 20 years and they are very hard to find some of them I think are lost forever. Till this day I don't know how or what happened, I ran and still run Ubuntu and I think my file permission strategy was wrong, but what happened with things like my firewall and such is a mystery. Anyway, I want to ask you, what security measures should I take to open my full library to the world while avoiding or at least, minimizing risk.

Hey sorry if this isn’t super relevant to the sub/a soulseek issue in particular (I’m not good with this kind of thing) but I’ve been having issues with my files doubling when I download them in Apple Music

Basically I’ll download an album and when I go into the album it’ll have two copies of each song, but only one of them can be played. I’m not sure why this is happening because I keep my files pretty organised, and it’s not too big of a deal, just kind of annoying and taking uo space. If anyone knows how to fix this is really appreciate it thankyou!!