The fact that you're sharing is already enough
this post was submitted on 07 Mar 2024
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Exactly. And honestly, even being a leech is better than allowing the network to fade away IMO
100GB of flacs
You're already doing great.
Honestly, I wouldn't worry too much about etiquette beyond making sure to reshare. If people want to to tighten their queue limits, upspeed, etc, they can. Or to your point, if they think you're mooching, they can cancel your downloads.
I just pull no more than an album at a time from people usually. spread it out, come back the next day etc. If you aren't sure, use the chat function and ask them if they are OK with you queuing up more than a couple of full albums at a time.
I share freely, no restrictions other than bandwidth cap and use a round robin to allocate upload slots to people, so if someone does queue up a hundred gigs of flacs from me (in my library that can be a single artist) it doesn't block everyone else for a week.
This is the heart of it: Pacing your downloads
A few times when I download more than an album from someone,I send them a quick "thanks for the albums!"
Before I download from someone, I always check their user info too
Personally I only ask that you "share-alike" aka make what you download from me available for others to download from you.
If you are sharing a lot of music I really don't mind if you download several albums from me, nowadays with this bandwith I dont care. If you want to be extra polite just a quick "thanks for the music " is perfect. Thanks for sharing your personal rips, that is quality content.
There are some users who are dicks that ban people, but you'll only be banned from that one person's downloads. If it happens just download from someone else who's not a psychopath about it. Most people on soulseek want to share. It's not a private tracker and there's no e-penis to be gained. DO share your own collection though because you might as well.
It’s not a private tracker
what exactly is it, though?
I suspect a lot of users with silly warnings in their profile like OP described haven't bothered configuring their Upload/Download preferences. The tools for managing slot numbers and queue scheme (round robin v. FIFO) are all there.
I use the leech filter to ensure that whoever downloads from me is at least sharing something. Outside of that I do not care. Download as much from me as you like.
How do you filter leachers?
I use the leech detector plugin on nicotine+. It allows me to set minimum parameters for the number of files and folders that users must have available to share before they can download from me. https://github.com/nicotine-plus/nicotine-plus/tree/5fe3aa776bfecc4b06818edf131ae8cc9e8f79bd/pynicotine/plugins/leech_detector
It would be amazing if lidarr could also interface with soulless. Id use it again but I'm way too lazy to go back to running randomly downloaded albums through whatever automated fingerprinting gui that went against musicbrainz I was using at the time
I ban anyone that queues up more than one album and doesn't share or shares only their download folder.
Just so you know, the example docker compose file has /downloads as the only volume option for media. So I pointed the internal docker folder /downloads at my whole music library.
So you’re almost certainly banning people who are sharing their whole library if they are using the default docker compose file. For example, you would ban me by that rationale.
First of all you can map more volumes and second of all I didn't mean the folder was called downloads just that its obviously not their music library.
I laughed.
Definitely not going to map to more volumes than necessary. It’s okay if you ban me. I’ll deal with it.
So you only allow people to download, if they already downloaded something and put it in a proper folder?
so no noobs allowed?
its like those circles of you need experience to get a job, but you need job to get experience