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?

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[–] yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Concerning how soulseek works, as I understand it, it's basically like the bittorrent protocol, just another peer-to-peer sharing protocol.

As to your collection, share away! You never know how far the happiness can go when the right collection is discovered!

[–] Eyedust@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Haven't gotten around to it just yet, but I did tag all the music with the proper metadata. I can't rip anything off my iPod 1st and 2nd gens from my collection yet, but they're stuffed full of music. I just need the proper firewire, but they seem to be more expensive than the units...

I need to order the music by genre folders now. Today I just got the EddieVPN client for Nobara working. I didn't realize it was as easy as going to the Eddie site and getting the RPM; I've been too spoiled with the Arch AUR having everything I need in one place.

I'm almost there, though. I'll have the music up soon.

[–] yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh yeah, I almost forgot firewire was a thing haha, glad that didn't catch on. Hope you can get those tunes somehow, I know I wish I still had my music collection from my old mp3 players, or even the ipod shuffle and 1st gen nano I used to rock back in the day.

On nice, I went with airvpn too, and also use Nobara, what a coincidence?!

[–] Eyedust@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, I'm not a huge fan of firewire, but back in the day it was actually pretty nice. 1.5A @ 30v was pretty nuts back then. I had a PC filled with pirated music I got from LAN parties in high school. No idea where that music went... probably destroyed in a Windows reinstall.

lol! I took a Linux class a long time ago and learned on Damn Small Linux. I came back to it years later with Pop!_OS then moved to Arch where I stayed for 2 years. Went to NixOS for a while.

But I never gave Fedora the time it deserved, so as an afterthought I tried it after I messed up my Arch system (yeeted my .local folder by accident). Went with Nobara for the ease of setup for gaming. I didn't think I'd stay here, but its just too good.

[–] yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

RIP to all the music we lost due to unintended carelessness 🫡

Yeah, I pretty much had a similar linux pathway, started with kubuntu -> ubuntu -> arch (manjaro, then endevour os) -> Nobara. I was afraid of NixOS so I avoided it, might try it one day if I'm feeling spicy.

I've yeeted entire boot partitions and learned the hard way not to mess with what I can't handle haha.

what music client do you use? I'm using mpd + rmpc right now, finally found something that's customizable and powerful.

[–] Eyedust@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

NixOS is well worth a try. If you know lua and json, its not too hard to pick up nixlang. I know neither and it only took me a few weeks to learn it. But once you get the hang of it, you can make a Linux reproducible on other systems. I made everything modular. GPU drivers for my old laptop? Imported nix module. Neovim? Imported nix module.

Yeah, I've done that. I've also deleted SCSI on my first Windows PC, lol. I still haven't learned my lesson and mess with things I can't handle. I was notorious for destroying my mother's computers growing up. Then I learned to fix the things I broke.

As of right now, I use Audacious. Its my absolute favorite music client and all completely modular. You head to the plugins section and add what you want. It doesn't even close to system tray without a plugin, so super customizable. If you can't tell, I love modular things, lol.

For a quick music shuffle list with a really sleek design, Amberol is a really close second. Especially if you use GNOME, since its designed by default in the GNOME style. I use KDE, so I stick with Audacious, but I did enjoy my time with MPD on XFCE using a plugin designed for that DE. If I went back to Hyprland, I'd probably use MPD.