r/Soulseek

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

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?

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 😄

I'm just curious, because I'm someone who downloads in bursts, a few albums at a time. I usually take from a few different uploaders at once, though I feel it would be more efficient if I download from one user at once, especially if they have a discography from an artist I like. However, I usually refrain from downloading a lot from one person, as I feel like they'll block me or something, which would suck if they had a really good library. For those of you with massive libraries, what is the point when you start viewing large amounts of downloads as annoying? Are you fine with someone downloading a full discography at once? A few albums? Just one album at a time?

I really want to know as a beginner, whether that max out files reliable generally? I know it's p2p but I want to know how to safely deal with that, specially for audiophiles.

Tools like " fakin the funk " actually detect that or not?

I want to know in depth everything as a beginner.

I shall be very thankful to you!

I've seen a number of posts regarding pairing these two using Gluetun. Took me a few days to get it up and running but I've got it now, using the config.toml file with Gluetun. I run both Gluteun and Slskd in a docker compose stack.

I've also seen that people are having issues with Proton's port forwarding which again I thought I had addressed with the config.toml file for Gluetun's control server, but Proton seems to change it's forwarded port ridiculously often which interrupts any downloads. It also always seems to change right after I click on something to download. There is rarely enough time between port changes and subsequent reconnections to finish any download. There also doesn't appear to be any auto retry function in slskd despite what the docs say about adding it into the yaml config. It just throws errors and won't let me save the config.

So a few questions: what do you guys use and how do you configure it? Is a vpn necessary, because I've seen a number of posts saying it isn't.

Thank you!

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I'm using spek & that famous funkin app...

I want to know whether spek can really able to test & detect that fake upscales ?

Like cheap quality to CD 48hz 24bit quality upscales!

Guide me how to do that!

& Some other useful Ways you know.

Thanks...

I've recently noticed a bunch of users with 1000 files in 50 folders, but if you scan their shareds you find that they don't share anything. I suppose they're coming from the streaming app and that's how they bypass anti-leechers plugin

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Hello,

I'm on Mac Os with SoulseekQt build 2024.6.30 (the latest build available for my Os, which is 12).

I've been experiencing this situation only for the last few months.

Ports on my router are open (also the obfuscated port) and from my router I see the green lights. Still the client when I check the ports tells me they are closed.

Nevertheless my upload works and people is downloading stuff from me regularly.

I haven't downloaded anything in a while, but from the people who's downloading from me, I get the message that "it looks like you're not sharing any files, please share before downloading from me".

The awkward thing is I get the message from people I'm uploading to, not from people I'm trying to download from (and anyway, as I said before, I haven't been downloading anything in a while).

What could it be?

Thanks 

Paolo

I don't have slsk installed on my computer for storage reasons, only on a USB drive. I have a good amount of files shared that I want to be available as often as possible. How could I keep the files up without keeping my USB drive plugged in all the time? I've been using slsk for a couple years, but don't know much about the technicalities of stuff like this. Thanks!

A particular user I had encountered trying to download from their files, I contacted them once they had banned me for a reason i didn't know about, turns out they were mad at me for using a VPN for a variety of reasons they were vague about (and which it was hard to get them to explain). However this is not the main problem, and I am of course not entitled to their files.

The main problem is that once I had disconnected from my VPN (at their direction, and after me clarifying with them that I would be able to download from them) they immediately claimed I was another user (giving a specific username, too) and claimed that "all assholes on soulseek use Verizon" and that I supposedly already knew why that was the case, before ceasing all communication with me.

I wonder if anyone else here has had similar problems with users banning people using certain ISPs for some reason, as I'm still not sure why this whole situation went down.

Used to have plenty of users popping in to download but in the last month it so, it seems like about 1/4 of the usual traffic. I share over 60k files, impeccably sorted, from a wide variety of genres so it's not the quality of my shares. What, do people have better things to do all of a sudden??

Pretty straight forward. I've been using Soulseek for a long while and I always thought I was sharing my files. Turns out it wasn't the case, and my ports weren't open, so I did some port fwd config on my router.

It all seems correctly configured. Soulseek's port checker says both listening and obfuscated ports are open and OK to go.

I have two PC devices on my network, both with different Soulseek accounts, where I test for user file browsing. They both can download files and chat with any user. But I cannot browse through the shared files of the other. My files (for any of the devices) are still also not indexed in searches.

I need help with this cause i've been investigating for a couple of days and I am at a dead end.

Things to note:

- Port forwarding: I got 4 mapping rules, 2 per device, for both ports. Protocol is TCP only, and LAN and Public port values are identical. They are mapped to the local IP address corresponding to the device in question.

- Manual DHCP with fixed private IP addresses on both devices.

- NAT Traversal is enabled.

- UPnP is enabled (for now at least for testing).

- I do not have a double NAT layer. My router also has a public IPv4 address.

- I have firewall rules on my PC set up, allowing inbound and outbound traffic for both the application (in private and public net), and the two ports specifically. I think it's redundant but I wanted to make sure.

- If you search for my user, the number of files I share is visible, but the contents are not indexable or browsable.

- "Enable listening ports" enabled on Slsk.

- All of my shared folders are accessible to "Everyone".

- "Accept uploads from all user list users" enabled on Slsk.

- I pass both port checking tests. Soulseek says they are open and that "my router and application are correctly configured".

- I can download, browse and chat with other Slsk users just fine. I can browse shared file indexes of other people, just not the two users from both of my devices.

- My router has a built-in firewall, enabled and set on low level by default. It doesn't support custom rules. I've temporarily disabled firewall on one of my tests, but still nothing changes.

- No VPN active on any device on any of the tests. I figured this would maybe act as a wall so I am not using them.

I'm not sure what else to do anymore.... any ideas?

i was searching in someone folder for books and he have a lot , when i download the file soulseek crash , this always happen when i want to download lots of files at one go from diffrent users too , is there any solution to this :)

I know there is pbthal for vinyl rips but can anyone recommend others esp if people are looking for vinyl or cd rips?

Haven't logged into SLSK in a while, but in my 20+ years of using it I've never had a problem, but today I am no longer getting any results from my searches.

Any ideas?