Hello, i've been thinking about using soulseek for the very first time to download some music and such. I had a couple of questions from the c/piracy community.

Do i need to stay logged in on soulseek even if i am or am not sharing stuff? Obviously i can't be online and have my pc powered on 24/7 as i have a life outside the web (and other things aswell). so i hope that's understandable as to why i asked, i was worried i'd get banned if i don't be online like all the time.
Would a vpn work just fine with soulseek even if the vpn has support for port forwarding? There's an obvious reason as to why i'd use one.
Which soulseek client should i use, Nicotine+? or soulseek's actual client (i use Linux Mint, in case y'all were wondering. I might move to debian though!)

That's all i want to ask for now, hopefully these aren't dumb to ask. I'll be waiting for replies (might not reply to all of them so i apologize), thanks!

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[–] Sentry64@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'll try to share what i have! Out of curiosity, would people from soulseek care if my music came from torrent sites? Alot of my flacs i grabbed was from PIMEDIA which are the people uploading some songs onto various torrent sites. I was thinking about sharing those but was worried if the users on soulseek would not like that very much, hope it isn't silly to ask haha-

[–] theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 days ago

I doubt anyone cares at all. You get a fair amount of snobs who will lock their files up and ask for specific trades or for bandcamp vouchers in exchange for access to what they have but I don't converse with those types personally. If I see them I usually block them from downloading anything of mine out of principle because I can't stand that attitude.

However everyone else I've interacted with there are more concerned about the quality and don't really care of origin or anything like that.