Soulseek down / not searching? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by rando@lemmy.ml to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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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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[-] Blxter@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

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

[-] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago

Sort of. If you're not port forwarding, you can only connect to those who are, if you are port forwarding you can connect to everyone who is and everyone who isn't (that is currently connected ofc) so you get a bigger pool to search through.