Hi all!
Looking to get back into pirating more music. Torrent sites don’t have a large selection. Other options have poor quality.
I’ve been looking into alternatives like Soulseek, but can’t find how to bind that to VPN like I do with Qbit.
I’ve heard the risks are lower, but I’d still prefer to bind to VPN. I know from experience that kill switches are unreliable. Is this possible in soulseek or something similar (preferably OSS and with ok sound quality).
I’ve read the FAQ, megathread and done a search and didn’t find anything.
You can with “Nicotine+”, which is an alternative client for soulseek.
Nicotine+ has such a weird UI
It is pretty much completely customizable in settings… Everything from button/bar placement to color. You can even completely remove items.
you can bind to a specific interface in nicotine
I use slskd connected to a VPN and it works great. I just run a gluetun container and then attach the slskd container to it with network mode service, same as you would connect transmission to gluetun.
Many VPNs provide modes where all traffic is forced over the VPN, but does Soulseek even still work? I feel like I tried it a decade ago and it already never worked… most advice for music piracy these days is to rip from legit sources with something like Nuclear, but afaik that is no longer maintained
Soulseek is amazing, it’s by far the most comprehensive music piracy tool I’ve used.
TIL
Yes! I have a machine where the whole system is going through a VPN and I run my SLSKD instance on it just fine.
I used it this week. Works great.
