VPN needed for using Soulseek? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by Sunny@slrpnk.net to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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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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[-] caleb@lemmy.moorenet.casa 1 points 3 weeks ago

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.

[-] Sunny@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 weeks ago

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?

[-] caleb@lemmy.moorenet.casa 1 points 3 weeks 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.