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Has something changed regarding soulseek? I don't seem to get any results for searching. I tried previously searched terms and even those are returning blank. If there is better place to ask question/debug help regarding soulseek, let me know.

[EDIT Solved]: as suggested in comments : some artists are unsearchable

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

soul seek has never gone down. it's not possible

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

ehh.. server outage is pretty common

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I tried yesterday and it was working. Is it not an issue with the client instead? Try Nicotine instead of the official Souseek client once.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Oh I'm using nicotine+ (never used official client)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Does TCP port 2234 need to be open? (I was using soulseek without any issues previously) so if port needs to be open then probably something on ISP side changed

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

Yes to reach others you need the port forwarded and some users have have access blocked if you are not also sharing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I'm sharing, can see it under uploads

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I am also on Nicotine. I just tried downloading and it is working fine. My port 2234 is closed as per Soulseek official site [though users can download from me, I think].

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Possibly unrelated but certain artists seem to be blacklisted on that platform for some reason

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm dumb, it was absolutely this. (Actually previously searchable artist is also not searchable that's why I got so worked up). All good now

[–] hefty4871 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A tip I found that works is to search for a song in the album you're looking for. I like to use the most unique sounding title from the album. Then if you get a result, browse the user's collection and you'll likely find the rest of the album.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Exactly what I did, also wild card in artist name works.

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

iirc you also can't search michael jackson lol

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

This was a few months back but when I searched for Luke Bryan, nothing came up. I had to get creative to find the song I wanted. Think it was called country girl. I haven't tried recently but it would be interesting to see if it's still like that

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Term "Bryan" is blocked. Search "luke *ryan" instead.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sometimes it's better to put something in your big book of sailor's secrets and not ask around too much.

Mum's the word.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

13 years old forum post about this, with a reply from Nir Arbel, the founder:

https://www.slsknet.org/news/node/717

Yeah, I can't go into too much detail, but we have to filter certain things.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

That's wild I had no idea actually

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Oh didn't know it's a thing, thanks