For context, I have around 14k albums that I’d love to share and keep the stream flowing, but I have a couple of problems.
A.) My PC isn’t always on, which isn’t the biggest issue but I know a source just being inches away from being offline is painful.
and the more important issue, B.) Soulseek genuinely slaughters my PC resources at high album counts. I have a decent gaming PC, not some budget machine. Is there a way to limit it’s intake?
I really do want to share my collection, but I don’t have the money to set up a seedbox equivalent just for uploading music. Any help would be appreciated :)
If I remember correctly, I think under File Sharing there is a limit of how many queued uploads and how many megabytes of queued uploads per user you can put.
You can reduce both amounts so people can only download a specific number of uploads or s specific number of megabytes at once so your computer doesn’t use so many resources.
The other option is to set your folder to private and let people send you a message and ask you if they could download from you. I know some people set it to 2-3 uploads per user and if your internet just struggles to download things they limit the MB.
That’s all I remember, sorry if what I’m saying is a bit confusing as my primary language is not English and I haven’t used Soulseek in a while!
If I remember correctly, I think under File Sharing there is a limit of how many queued uploads and how many megabytes of queued uploads per user you can put.
If you do this, make sure that the largest album you have fits within whatever limit you set. Nothing more irritating than downloading just a single album, only to find you can’t actually get the whole thing.
The other option for limiting resources not mentioned here, is the ability to cap upload speed. This might require you to have your computer on for longer, but if your internet isn’t the best then it might be worth it to not have your connection randomly choked out.
It’s fine if your PC isn’t always on, just set soulseek to autostart with your PC.
There is also an alternative soulseek client called nicotine+ which is cross-platform and might perform better for you.
slskd is a game changer for me. I have it running 24/7 on my pi but should run on pretty much anything.
been using nicotine+ and it’s been pretty light on resources for me, on windows with ~2.8tb of shared files i’ve never seen it use more than 1% cpu or 200-300mb ram on my system. I feel you on the 1st point tho, I’m running mine off a laptop that I use for school work etc. and my shares are stored on a external hdd, so it’s impossible to have it running 24/7 even though I’d love to be able to do that. I think a nas is probably the best solution for big collections and thats what most of the slsk users with several tb of files use, but it can definitely be a decent investment of time and money