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VPN needed for using Soulseek? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hiya,

Working on completely replacing Spotify completely. Soulseek has popped up a few times here and there among forums and here on lemmy, so I thought I'd give that a go. I've started with getting Nicotine+ client and seems to be working fine. However, what does the traffic look like when downloading/uploading things over the Soulseek network? I read its peer-to-peer network, but does that mean I don't need a VPN? I'm also told to open a port on my router, I'm assuming this is so that I can share my own library with the rest of the network, but how safe is this?

If anyone could help my clarify this I'd greatly appreciate it!

Edit: Just found this very promising project too! https://github.com/slskd/slskd

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Not sure why people are saying port forwarding is required. I have no ports forwarded to slskd and people are downloading from me just fine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Isn't the purpose of peer to peer to for people to connect to each other? If your port isn't open then how do they connect to you?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Not sure exactly sure how it all works. I've never needed to open ports for qbittorrent for downloading or seeding, I imagine it's the same principal. I 100% don't have any ports open and can see people actively downloading my music in slskd, confirmed even more by the thank you messages I receive for sharing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

at least one of the pair needs a open port. people with open ports can download from you, the ones with closed ports can't.