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What is good SoulSeek etiquette? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by ReedReads@lemmy.zip to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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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?

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[-] nyakojiru@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 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 .

[-] theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 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.