Been using it for quite a while, it's very good and allows to share basically everything. I'm sharing terabytes of music but also movies, archives, etc. You can find pretty rare stuff sometimes too
You will not get banned for not sharing. What actually happens is that some people have scripts to see if you're sharing, if not they refuse you access to their files until you start sharing. That has to do with each individual and nothing to do with the network itself, other than the fact that it gives you the option to deny access.
Does soulseek work with lidarr in anyway? I have been using lidarr for mostly any music content downloading from Torrent and usernet sites.
You can setup lidarr to import from a blackhole folder and have soulseek/nicotine save downloads to the folder. Unfortunately you can't control soulseek/nicotine from lidarr and have to search & download manually
Thanks this makes sense.
Soulseek is great although it absolutely requires port forwarding to share files. It's also very much a "desktop" app and I don't think much investment has been made for it to be a solid, containerized server app. Everything I have explored on that front has been very janky.
Yaar, dis be good work. I can swab the deck and hear the Siren's Call too.
I can't believe soulseek still exists, I have so many memories of getting the wrong content or suspicious files with it more than a decade ago 🥲
The Soulseek app image can go now. Nicotine+ is my new best friend.
Wow, I love slsk and have been using it since literally about 2004 (it has absolutely defined my taste in music), but I didn't know there were any options for clients except for the main one. This is great!
If you're reading this and you've never checked out slsk, consider this your invitation. I have spent hours trying to "stump" it by searching for increasingly-obscure music. Someone always has it on slsk.
EDIT: HOLY JESUS HALLELUJAH IT HAS DARK MODE
Lucky you - there’s definitely still tons of obscure music not on Soulseek. But for 99.9999% of people they’ll find everything they’re looking for. Certain band and artist names are blocked to avoid copyright issues so you’ll have to search by song ot album title.
Apparently you know your way around there... can you ELI5 what soulseek exactly is? Is this based on torrenting? Is it comparable to what limewire was back in the day?
Stumbled across it and don't know what makes this so charming for so many people
it’s more like limewire as it does not use the BitTorrent protocol but rather direct P2P connections to other users. In that case it tends to be slower
It’s popular cause it’s probably the most popular P2P non torrent app and there’s a lot of hardcore users sharing over 100k music files including real rarities and mostly public to all. There are some locked file users in search of trades and that’s been hurting the overall community arguably as well as people who ban if you don’t share anything but generally most are willing to share whatever to whoever as long as you don’t download all their shares at once
Thank you very much :-)
freakin' awesome! i used soulseek on windows ages ago and i totally forgot about it. two weeks ago a friend asked for my help to set it up and i went looking for open source alternatives and found Nicotine+
i'm awe struck with it! i'm someone who keeps a local music library and torrenting has been getting worse in this department, specially with newer music. how could i have forgotten about this..
i didn't even remeber you could search the whole network for titles lol, i expected to browse folders, user by user haha
i'm currently going over all my newpipe playlists of less-mainstream artists
My only thing is there any simple way to transfer all my stuff from qt to nicotine? I have literally several hundred items on my wish list and user list
How is the Soulseek community these days? I used to use it heavily up to more than a decade ago, when I started streaming for convenience. Is there still a meaningful number of people to browse and download from?
Good but we need more people before the traders/locked file users take over. ___
Very strong. Soulseek kinda drifted to mostly high quality music because the protocol isn't a good option for large files. It would be interesting to see a Soulseek network v3 upgraded with torrent-like features...
Love nicotine+. Choosing not to see those locked file assholes was the best gift this interface gave me.
Nicotine+ is fantastic. I finally made the switch a few days ago and it's so much nicer than the official client.
I've never heard of Soulseek before, but it sounds like exactly the sort of thing I've been trying to find for years! I'm so sick of Spotify, I want to get back into collecting locally but it's hard. This looks perfect :)
Why are people using P2P?
thanks for using Leebra!
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OMFG, Soulseek still exists?!? I thought bittorrent killed it 20 years ago.
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