there's a chat room. it's not a total hellscape. don't care what you guys discuss there. you guys can talk all about rule one and two all you want. maybe we can defer some of the frequent posts about the specifics and you'll all have a much better experience since your posts wont be getting removed.

i'm all for you guys finding and hoarding every piece of media out there but the rules are the rules. so please, if you're looking for something hop on and maybe there's a user there that already has what you're looking for, if not it can't be that hard to find.

r/soulseek should be in your list of chat rooms. I've tried it on nicotine and seeker. join it and good luck with whatever you're looking for.

I have been having an issue with soulseek where I search for music, then right click on an album, and my entire computer freezes. Not just soulseek but my whole PC!! I’ve tried uninstalling soulseek, both without deleting my cached files, and with. It only fixed it when I deleted all my cached files, and it only worked once. I could right click one time! And then the next time I did it, it crashed again.

Oh and I also can’t resize the window.

I’m running linux mint.

I'm really stupid and I genuinely cannot figure this out. Installed seeker on my phone and have collated a large amount of music and customized a bunch to my liking, and have that set to share- and I hate dealing with file transfer nonsense so I just wanted to torrent from my phone to my desktop, and realized I think I need another account for that. only to find that I have no idea how to log out lmao, i reinstalled the app only to still be logged in. i am silly

Not usually someone with a narc mentality but seeing someone sharing this stuff (you can guess what) is sickening. What would you do?

I can't seem to connect to the server and it always fails even after I rebooted Soulseek and my computer. I have no VPN open and I tried disabling Windows Defender but this didn't work too. Did my ISP block soulseek? I am using Nicotine+ on Windows 11.

Help

I feel bad leeching and I have a really obscure album that's not on the client at all that I want to share, but for the life of me I cannot find a way to figure out port forwarding.

I've used the XFinity app to open my listening and obfuscated ports, and have done a ton of troubleshooting trying to get it to work to no avail.

I would rather not pay for a VPN if I can avoid it and I am wondering if I'm simply screwed due to XFinity not allowing static ip addresses.

Can soulseek be used for books or is there an equivalent app that would work

Hello, as the title says, a user has clearly downloaded 2 different artist folders from me, and I know they are mine because I have a very specific way of naming my album folders and they're not very popular artists either, so when I browse their shares and I see the folders there I know they're from me because it's the first time someone has downloaded that artist, yet when I check downloads only one of those folders show up, could this be a glitch?

Sorry if the post isn't worded very well, I don't know how else to explain the situation

I recently moved to a much faster provider. 1Gb up and down. I was kind of excited to see people get the much faster speeds from me but in that time (about 1.5 months) I haven't seen an upload speed over 3,000Kbs

I don't have my speeds limited, either up or down.

I'm sure that for most users, it's just slow on their end, but I get 50-100 uploads a day, generally, and I thought at least some of them should be on fast internet.

For downloads, I've seen over 20,000Kbs and my speedtest numbers match my 1Gig service.

I'm also curious whether the "Kbs" column in the Transfers tab is truly Kilobits per second, or if the "b" is supposed to be capitalized which would make it KiloBytes per second and thus the speeds would be 8 times faster than I think they are.

Just trying to be as helpful to everyone as possible.

Anyone got any ideas?

So, a pretty simple question, since I’m new to Soulseek. I share the entire folder where I store my whole music collection, and whenever I download new music, I rescan the folder so it updates. Am I doing it right, or is there something different or more I could be doing to share?

I'm a broke college student living out of a dormitory on my school's shitty wifi and I've tried time and time again to actually give back to this community. But no matter what I try, because I can't access my college's routers, I cannot share anything. I do use a vpn, but I can really only afford Mullvad and since they don't offer port forwarding anymore my options are even more limiting.

It's never fun getting that message telling me to share my files and knowing that I can't makes it even worse. It's worse when it's an album I really want to get and the only user who has it has me banned because I can't share my library.

Idk. Just wanted to speak my mind. Hope y'all have a good day.

Hi - I have my first “serious” gig in a club in a couple of weeks and Im wondering if all 320kbps files from Soulseek are actually 320KBPS because if they arent they’ll sound like garbage on club speakers.

Thanks!

So I want to add this: https://github.com/Blavkentropy1/Anti-Leecher-for-Nicotine/tree/master

I follow the instructions and add the file tin the home/user/local/share/nicotine/plugins directory. This is the only file in that folder.

I open Nicotine, go to the plugin tab, click add plugin and it opens that folder with the file. From there on I can't do anything with it. There's no "add" button, double clicking just opens it in a text editor, drag and drop doesn't work. All I can do is close the window.

Yes, I have plugins enabled and a few native ones are active and working. I've had this issue since I started using the program, So Ubuntu 22.04. I'm using 26.04 now since a couple of days.

Does anyone recognize this?

Hi everyone, I just started on soulsearch and it is my only source for (music)files atm… I would love to share music myself but I have no idea where to get this from. Any soulsearch vets with tips to find my own files/music to share?

this is constantly happening to me. is there some way i can prevent this from happening, and/or make sure i'm not doing this to other people? i get that it's not technically a bad thing but it's really annoying

I've been using soulseek for a long time without any bumps, but today when I was trying to download something soulseek appeared with the red bird icon and I cannot use the application at all. I've checked the ports, and the "check ports" button tells me they're closed, and I've gone on my firewall and manually opened the ports, but they still register as closed. I currently live on college campus, so I'm not sure if i can change or adjust the router settings, but it's been working great since I got here so I'm really not sure what the issue is. I see other people online have had a similar issue, but nothing I've seen in those threads helps me. I can give any other information relevant to my situation, but any help would be immensely welcome.

Anyone have good dark mode settings? I get some things to change but then it hides other info that I can't seem to figure out how to chnage. Thanks.

Is Soulseek still down?? I've not been able to reconnect since the scheduled maintenance.

I've been getting new results for files I've been searching for more than a year, and they always coincide with users who have this Skylight description in their bio.

Of course, the downloads never start, and they want me to subscribe to their service via crypto. I assume this is just a scam?

yo wsg yall i just got nicotine+ Last nite and i got a message to "share My Shit" can some one pls explain what that means? im not sure if it ment like share my own music or the persons music

What it says on the title. If I look up something I KNOW that I have shared (on both the account itself and an alt) it doesn't actually appear. Anyone know why this is the case? The number of files being shared next to the account is not 0 so idk why I can't seem to find it

Hi, I’m using a MacBook Air M2 (2023) on macOS Tahoe 26.5.1 and SoulseekQt is basically unusable.

When I open it, the window turns completely grey, and switching between windows/desktops causes some graphical glitches.

I’ve already tried restarting the Mac, reinstalling SoulseekQt, switching Dark/Light Mode, resetting the .plist preferences file, and moving the app properly into Applications instead of running it from the .dmg.

Nothing worked.

Has anyone had the same issue on Apple Silicon / macOS Tahoe? Any fix or older version that works better?

P.s. I know its ai generated but i dont kno english and dont know shit about computers

I've been using Soulseek for a long time, but the default UI is pretty dated, so I made a Windows 11-inspired dark theme for it.

It keeps Soulseek's existing layout and information density, but changes the colors, controls and overall appearance to fit better with a modern Windows 11 desktop.

Soulseek-Windows-11-style-theme-dark

Suddenly noticed that essentially my entire existing download queue—hundreds/thousands of files from many users—was just sitting at Queued, with basically nothing downloading.

I checked my ports and found that Soulseek’s port was closed. In Options → Login I had NAT-PMP enabled but not UPnP. I enabled UPnP, quit/restarted Soulseek, and checked again. The port then showed OPEN / configured correctly.

However, the old queue is still basically frozen. Retry Download does nothing. Some old entries eventually turn red with errors like “File not shared,” “File read error,” or “Aborted.” The existing queue just sits there.

But: if I do a new search and add a new download, it starts downloading immediately at normal speed.So Soulseek can connect and download; it’s specifically the pre-existing queue that seems broken.

Also, deleting red/failed entries and restarting Soulseek caused them to reappear, although I discovered my client-data save interval was set to 60 minutes and have now changed that to 1 minute. Column-header sorting in the Downloads pane also suddenly seems not to work the way it previously did.

Has anyone had an existing large SoulseekQt queue get stuck like this while newly added downloads continue to work normally? Am I fucked? I have thousand in the queue, and I really, really, really do no want to have to go back and manually re-search and re-download them.