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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So I saw this post here a couple days ago about music piracy and got interested in soulseek. I've installed nicotine in a docker container and started searching for some music. I've found some pretty hard to find music and this album my father used to have in vynil when I was a kid. Cool. But the files had PRIVATE written on them.. Tried to download but the user did not share them with me. My question is: what's the point of sharing folders in a p2p program and denying access to these folders? I mean..just don't share it if you won't let anybody download it. Am I missing something in order to download this album?

Edit: hey guys I sent a message to the user asking if he could share the folder with me and he answered that he'd added me and I could download whatever I wanted! Great! Thanks for the help!

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (14 children)

Do you have a folder that’s being shared? Some users only share with others who share.

You can also message the person and ask if they would be willing to make that folder public.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Yeah, some dickheads apparently want to monetize and should die in a fire, but it doesn't hurt to ask. Patience usually does the trick, but I need to work out how to filter Private out of search results.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

I'm gonna try asking for the files thanks

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

People monetize that??

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

apparently this happens https://www.reddit.com/r/Soulseek/comments/cs9j02/users_who_charge_to_access_their_files/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Wow... I mean,if you paid for your music and don't want to share it,OK ..just don't share it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I ran across it somewhere, greed makes it sound plausible, but I have no direct evidence.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

you can hide private files in search results, at least in nicotine

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Cool..I'm gonna try that so I don't get frustrated to find some cool music that I'm not able to download.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Figured that was likely, haven't found it yet.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Preferences -> Searches -> toggle Show privately shared files in search results

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Thanks, literally the second option. Blind!

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