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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So I saw this post here a couple days ago about music piracy and got interested in soulseek. I've installed nicotine in a docker container and started searching for some music. I've found some pretty hard to find music and this album my father used to have in vynil when I was a kid. Cool. But the files had PRIVATE written on them.. Tried to download but the user did not share them with me. My question is: what's the point of sharing folders in a p2p program and denying access to these folders? I mean..just don't share it if you won't let anybody download it. Am I missing something in order to download this album?

Edit: hey guys I sent a message to the user asking if he could share the folder with me and he answered that he'd added me and I could download whatever I wanted! Great! Thanks for the help!

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

you can hide private files in search results, at least in nicotine

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Cool..I'm gonna try that so I don't get frustrated to find some cool music that I'm not able to download.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Figured that was likely, haven't found it yet.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Preferences -> Searches -> toggle Show privately shared files in search results

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Thanks, literally the second option. Blind!