Can't find my downloads

[jamesblonde007]

I set up Soulseek and I am able to connect to my shared music, and people can download from me. Nice.

However, when I try to download, the download completes normally but there is nothing at all in the download folder (not even sub-folders) and no error in the log. I tried to set the download folder in the UI as well but it made no difference.

I set the permission of the downloads folder to read/write and EVERYONE as I thought it might be a permissions issue but that didn't help.

Any ideas?

[realies]

share your docker and soulseek config

[jamesblonde007]

I don't see any config files. Where should they be?

[realies]

share how you start the container and what you've configured inside soulseek for the downloads folder

[jamesblonde007]

Understood. I exported the settings and pasted them below. I found the paths section of the installation guide to be very confusing so I probably got something wrong there.

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[realies]

share your soulseek downloads folder configuration

[jamesblonde007]

Sorry, I didn't understand your request.

[realies]

what did you set inside the soulseek client as the downloads folder?

[jamesblonde007]

Isn't that information already in the settings JSON file which I pasted above? Or are you looking for something else?

[realies]

If you check the readme you'll find that the default client downloads folder is /data/Soulseek Downloads. If you change this, you have to update the settings in the Soulseek client.

[jamesblonde007]

Thanks for your patience.

I tried to set that folder name at the start but that folder setting generated an error:

Then I saw another installation guide with a different folder name so I tried that. The error didn't appear so it seemed like progress but downloads are still not working properly.

[realies]

Ah, the usual Synology issues. Someone here mentioned you can use the CLI to start the container with the correct path: https://github.com/realies/soulseek-docker/issues/86#issuecomment-2088811743

Otherwise, you can reconfigure the Soulseek client to download in your specific mounted folder from Options -> File Sharing -> Download Folder.

This will not fix the download icon in the UI that allows you to browse downloaded files from your browser. I could eventually come up with a solution to this, but it will likely involve reading the Soulseek configuration file, which does not seem trivial.

[jamesblonde007]

Thanks, at least I understand the problem now.

I tried "Options -> File Sharing -> Download Folder" already but that doesn't work. I will look into the CLI method.

[realies]

what exactly does not work? files are not downloaded to the specified directory?

[jamesblonde007]

I tried the CLI method but got errors (login required which doesn't exist?)

I tried the YML method but I got the error "Error response from daemon: Bind mount failed: '/persistent/appdata' does not exists"

Any help would be much appreciated. I have spent all day on this and getting nowhere.

[jamesblonde007]

what exactly does not work? files are not downloaded to the specified directory?

correct, they seem to download successfully according to the UI but the files aren't anywhere.

[realies]

i guess it might not be taking the settings immediately, try changing the automatic config saving interval to 1 minute inside soulseek after updating the downloads location and download something after a minute or two

[jamesblonde007]

i guess it might not be taking the settings immediately, try changing the automatic config saving interval to 1 minute inside soulseek after updating the downloads location and download something after a minute or two

That was one of the first things I did, to change the interval to 1 minute.

[realies]

you can go inside the container to check where files are getting downloaded to,

docker exec -it soulseek bash
find / -name filename.mp3

[jamesblonde007]

find / -name filename.mp3

When I tried that I got the following output:

find: ‘/proc/44/map_files’: Permission denied find: ‘/proc/46/map_files’: Permission denied find: ‘/proc/48/map_files’: Permission denied find: ‘/proc/53/map_files’: Permission denied find: ‘/proc/99/map_files’: Permission denied find: ‘/proc/149/map_files’: Permission denied

[realies]

i have to ask, do you type in the actual filename where it says filename.mp3?

[jamesblonde007]

i have to ask, do you type in the actual filename where it says filename.mp3?

Yes

[realies]

this is very strange, if the client is unable to write, it will usually indicate this in the interface;

i just saw your earlier message:

I tried the CLI method but got errors (login required which doesn't exist?)

I tried the YML method but I got the error "Error response from daemon: Bind mount failed: '/persistent/appdata' does not exists"

you have to actually set the bind locations correctly, the yml example assumes you have the path /persistent/appdata in your filesystem, it could very well not be that path

using the cli should not require a login, if the realies/soulseek image does not exist on your host, it should pull it before starting it, doing docker pull realies/soulseek should also pull the image without asking for any credentials as it's public - https://hub.docker.com/r/realies/soulseek/

[jamesblonde007]

you have to actually set the bind locations correctly, the yml example assumes you have the path /persistent/appdata in your filesystem, it could very well not be that path

I created these paths after I saw the errors but it didn't fix the issue. I assume that the 'persistent' folder belongs in the soulseek folder like this:

/volume1/docker/soulseek/persistent

[realies]

In the compose and CLI examples /persistent/downloads is an absolute path in the filesystem. If your downloads are stored in /mnt/mydisk/downloads/soulseek, you have to update the configs as

- /mnt/mydisk/downloads/soulseek:/data/Soulseek Downloads

or

  -v "/mnt/mydisk/downloads/soulseek":"/data/Soulseek Downloads" \

[jamesblonde007]

Thanks, your post didn't solve my problems completely but it helped me to move forward and to finally get there. (In the end I used the compose method, gave up on having a download path outside of the soulseek directory and moved the compose YML file inside the soulseek folder, along with a few other small changes.)

I am now running Soulseek and started to share 600GB of music 24/7 :)

Of course, I still can't touch the settings panel for the container because Synology will flag the space in the path name every time so I am unable to save any changes to the settings.

[realies]

glad you got it working, i suggest you try a chatbot with your specific config and folders to figure out the rest of the config