What is good SoulSeek etiquette? - eviltoast

I’m new to Soulseek. Got my Nicotine+ docker set up w/ VPN through gluetun. I’m good to go. Port forwarding is working correctly and I’m sharing a little over 100GB of flacs that I have ripped personally with EAC and a couple people have downloaded some of my stuff, which is really cool. I don’t have privileges rn.

But I there are a lot of albums that I’ve lost over the years that I see on SoulSeek. I want them. But I want to make sure I don’t get blocked or banned. So, say a person has 3-5 whole albums that I want. Is it proper to just download them all at once? I’ve seen things like this on one person’s profile page:

If you start browsing my share like it is a shop and queueing everything you come across e.g. whole artist folders, I will just remove you.

So a little guidance from this community would make me feel a little more confident?

  • theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 months ago

    Personally I love to see someone downloading a shit load of stuff from me. Someone recently got a whole labels releases from me of over 30gb but that just tells me they have good taste in music as far as I’m concerned so I then explored their files and ended up getting a lot of interesting stuff in return.

    I think these people with all their locked files asking for shit like gift vouchers in return for the privaledge of downloading a file from them are scummy, so the way you’ve approached it sounds great to me, you are sharing so grab whatever you need from people. Hopefully they will then explore your files and the cycle repeats!

    • nyakojiru@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      8 months ago

      I’m with you. I’m doing the same. One guys asked me for fees like 100 dollars. Just a few like that. Some people have the files locked but if you ask them they grant you access. Most of people are into sharing gladly .

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        8 months ago

        Within my chosen genre locked files tend to always mean they want something like that in return. Anyone I come across like this I block out of spite, I love sharing files with people but these people don’t deserve it IMO.

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      8 months ago

      I haven’t used soulseek in probably a decade but are there really people in there expecting payment to let you download music from them?? wtf…

      • MayTheBananaBeWithYo@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        Yeah, I thought Soulseek went the way of Limewire and Kazaa when things like Pirate Bay and whatnot became go-to sites…

        I mean, back in the day it was amazing, anything I wanted I could just about find. Random One Hit Wonder Japanese pop-punk band that I only heard about in passing? Yeah I could find their whole discography on Soulseek. It was awesome. I wish I could remember that band now…

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          8 months ago

          I think it is still pretty great, at least for the genre that I listen to it is. You will not find this music on traditional torrent sites and the like where as you can find a lot of it on soulseek. Private trackers may have more of these releases but I cannot be fucked with all that bs.

      • theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        8 months ago

        Sadly yes, I see a lot of people (although it may be more isolated to the kinds of music I search out) who have wishlists of releases they are willing to swap some files with and I have also seen a lot of people saying they will unlock files in exchange for bandcamp vouchers and the like.