Hello, i've been thinking about using soulseek for the very first time to download some music and such. I had a couple of questions from the c/piracy community.

Do i need to stay logged in on soulseek even if i am or am not sharing stuff? Obviously i can't be online and have my pc powered on 24/7 as i have a life outside the web (and other things aswell). so i hope that's understandable as to why i asked, i was worried i'd get banned if i don't be online like all the time.
Would a vpn work just fine with soulseek even if the vpn has support for port forwarding? There's an obvious reason as to why i'd use one.
Which soulseek client should i use, Nicotine+? or soulseek's actual client (i use Linux Mint, in case y'all were wondering. I might move to debian though!)

That's all i want to ask for now, hopefully these aren't dumb to ask. I'll be waiting for replies (might not reply to all of them so i apologize), thanks!

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[–] theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Love soulseek but please do try and share some stuff and leave you computer on from time to time so that other people can search / download what you are sharing. Whilst it isn't a requirement and you won't get banned for not doing so it is basic etiquette in my opinion and without people sharing resources like these will slowly die.

In terms of clients I would suggest trying both out. The majority of people recommend nicotine+ but personally I don't understand it, I find the official client much better even though it has a few quirks mainly due to searching and navigating others files seems to be a lot better in my experience.

[–] Sentry64@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'll try to share what i have! Out of curiosity, would people from soulseek care if my music came from torrent sites? Alot of my flacs i grabbed was from PIMEDIA which are the people uploading some songs onto various torrent sites. I was thinking about sharing those but was worried if the users on soulseek would not like that very much, hope it isn't silly to ask haha-

[–] theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 days ago

I doubt anyone cares at all. You get a fair amount of snobs who will lock their files up and ask for specific trades or for bandcamp vouchers in exchange for access to what they have but I don't converse with those types personally. If I see them I usually block them from downloading anything of mine out of principle because I can't stand that attitude.

However everyone else I've interacted with there are more concerned about the quality and don't really care of origin or anything like that.