I’ve just started using Soulseek and it’s great. I want to make sure that I’m being a good neighbour on it - do I need to do anything to ensure that my files are available for others to download? And do I need to structure directories e.g Artist name > Album name or does it work off metadata?

  • yardratianSoma@lemmy.caEnglish
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    3 days ago

    my folder structure is like:

    └── genres
    ├── Acapellas
    ├── Afrobeat
    ├── Ambient
    ├── BASSSSSSSSSSSSSS
    ├── Bollywood
    ├── Breakbeat
    ├── Chutney
    ├── Country
    ├── Dancehall
    ├── DUBSTEP

    and people download my files just fine, sometimes they just download entire folders since I organize by genre, not artist.

    • Eyedust@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      2 days ago

      I’m going to try and do this… but I have like 14 iPod classics worth of music to genre… Time to break out the old MusicBrainz Picard, I guess, just to make sure all the metadata is right. I have some wild stuff, too, like German Beatles songs and weird classical piano I’ve never heard of.

      I was a little leery of how Soulseek works, so I backed out last second. I’ve never been trustful of the whole folder sharing thing, even on LAN. I’m going to go for it, though. The world should hear the weird stuff and the good songs I’ve ripped off old iPods.

      • yardratianSoma@lemmy.caEnglish
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        18 hours ago

        Nice, I think the world’s a little better when we can share our musical tastes. It’s definitely some work to get all that music organized, but I’ve been messing around with scripting with python and that can do a lot of the monotonous stuff like fixing filenames and what not.

        And plus you never know, you’ll see songs being uploaded from your library and might think, “who the heck downloaded that?”, as I have many times. Every time I see unique music being downloaded, I feel a little better knowing eclectic music taste is still alive and well haha

    • DontNoodles@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      3 days ago

      I’m curious about your Bollywood folder. How big is it? I want to build a structured collection of old songs, and new ones too in as high quality as possible. I have nicotine+ installed but so far I couldn’t find anyone with an authoritative collection.

      • yardratianSoma@lemmy.caEnglish
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        2 days ago

        Ahh, my bollywood folder is fairly small right now, under 20 tracks. I tend to fill my library either with albums I’m curious about, or with songs I’ve heard and really want to replay for the future.

        Once in a while, you can find people who have some decent collections, but since not everyone logs on at once, it’s sometimes a game of cat and mouse. If I can’t find it on the soulseek network, I’ll grab stuff from places like doubledouble, usually for things that are very new.