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Soulseek

delune has its own Soulseek client: it doesn’t need slskd or Nicotine+.

The account

Any username and password work: the Soulseek server registers a new name the first time it signs in. One name can only be signed in once. Signing in somewhere else (another delune, slskd, Nicotine+, or the setup wizard’s check) signs the other one out. If you’re replacing slskd, stop it first and give delune the same account.

Settings → Connections shows the account, whether it’s online, the address the Soulseek server sees, and whether other users can reach you.

The listening port

Other users connect to you on the listening port (DELUNE_SLSK_PORT, default 2234). When they can, you get more search results and downloads start straight away; when they can’t, some peers can’t send to you at all.

  • At home: forward the port on your router, or turn on Forward the Soulseek port automatically (UPnP) in Settings → Sharing.
  • Behind a VPN: forward it with your VPN provider, and let the VPN container accept it (gluetun: FIREWALL_VPN_INPUT_PORTS). See Through a VPN.

Settings → Connections says reachable once someone on the internet has connected to that port.

Sharing

Soulseek works on give and take, and many people only upload to those who share. Settings → Sharing:

  • Share my library — off until you turn it on. People browse it as Music, never the real path.
  • Upload slots, files per person, and speed limits, with an optional schedule (for example, slower during the evening).
  • Only share with people who share, and a blocked list.
  • Pass searches on to others — take part in the distributed search network.

The share list is rebuilt after imports and every six hours.

Searching well

  • delune retries a search with fewer words when the network returns nothing.
  • Pasting a link from Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, Qobuz, Deezer, YouTube Music, SoundCloud, Bandcamp or MusicBrainz resolves the release first, then ranks folders by how much of its tracklist they hold.
  • The Soulseek server limits how often you can search; wishlist searches take one turn per interval the server sets.