Nicotine+ is a graphical client for the Soulseek peer-to-peer network.
Nicotine+ aims to be a pleasant, free and open source (FOSS) alternative to the official Soulseek client, providing additional functionality while keeping current with the Soulseek protocol.
Soulseek is a file sharing network for mostly Music but also other files. The most available format for songs are MP3, M4A and FLAC. Almost any song/album is on there so you will have no problem finding what you need. You need to share files yourself otherwise there is a possibility you will get banned. I added a YouTube video tutorial so you can understand it better.
You will not get banned for not sharing. What actually happens is that some people have scripts to see if you’re sharing, if not they refuse you access to their files until you start sharing. That has to do with each individual and nothing to do with the network itself, other than the fact that it gives you the option to deny access.
How is the Soulseek community these days? I used to use it heavily up to more than a decade ago, when I started streaming for convenience.
Is there still a meaningful number of people to browse and download from?
Very strong. Soulseek kinda drifted to mostly high quality music because the protocol isn’t a good option for large files. It would be interesting to see a Soulseek network v3 upgraded with torrent-like features…
My only thing is there any simple way to transfer all my stuff from qt to nicotine? I have literally several hundred items on my wish list and user list
You can setup lidarr to import from a blackhole folder and have soulseek/nicotine save downloads to the folder. Unfortunately you can’t control soulseek/nicotine from lidarr and have to search & download manually
Soulseek is great although it absolutely requires port forwarding to share files. It’s also very much a “desktop” app and I don’t think much investment has been made for it to be a solid, containerized server app. Everything I have explored on that front has been very janky.
Not a server solution but it’s not a desktop app. On androids there’s Seeker that does an excellent job of connecting to the network and downloading what you want.
freakin’ awesome! i used soulseek on windows ages ago and i totally forgot about it. two weeks ago a friend asked for my help to set it up and i went looking for open source alternatives and found Nicotine+
i’m awe struck with it! i’m someone who keeps a local music library and torrenting has been getting worse in this department, specially with newer music. how could i have forgotten about this…
i didn’t even remeber you could search the whole network for titles lol, i expected to browse folders, user by user haha
i’m currently going over all my newpipe playlists of less-mainstream artists
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Am I about to get addicted to nicotine again?
You will not get banned for not sharing. What actually happens is that some people have scripts to see if you’re sharing, if not they refuse you access to their files until you start sharing. That has to do with each individual and nothing to do with the network itself, other than the fact that it gives you the option to deny access.
Yaar, dis be good work. I can swab the deck and hear the Siren’s Call too.
How is the Soulseek community these days? I used to use it heavily up to more than a decade ago, when I started streaming for convenience. Is there still a meaningful number of people to browse and download from?
Very strong. Soulseek kinda drifted to mostly high quality music because the protocol isn’t a good option for large files. It would be interesting to see a Soulseek network v3 upgraded with torrent-like features…
Good but we need more people before the traders/locked file users take over. ___
Been using Seeker for a while now, will have to dl this on my mac at some point!
Thank you! Never knew that existed.
Nice the “official” client is garbage!
My only thing is there any simple way to transfer all my stuff from qt to nicotine? I have literally several hundred items on my wish list and user list
Does soulseek work with lidarr in anyway? I have been using lidarr for mostly any music content downloading from Torrent and usernet sites.
You can setup lidarr to import from a blackhole folder and have soulseek/nicotine save downloads to the folder. Unfortunately you can’t control soulseek/nicotine from lidarr and have to search & download manually
Soulseek is great although it absolutely requires port forwarding to share files. It’s also very much a “desktop” app and I don’t think much investment has been made for it to be a solid, containerized server app. Everything I have explored on that front has been very janky.
Not a server solution but it’s not a desktop app. On androids there’s Seeker that does an excellent job of connecting to the network and downloading what you want.
OMFG, Soulseek still exists?!? I thought bittorrent killed it 20 years ago.
I can’t believe soulseek still exists, I have so many memories of getting the wrong content or suspicious files with it more than a decade ago 🥲
freakin’ awesome! i used soulseek on windows ages ago and i totally forgot about it. two weeks ago a friend asked for my help to set it up and i went looking for open source alternatives and found Nicotine+
i’m awe struck with it! i’m someone who keeps a local music library and torrenting has been getting worse in this department, specially with newer music. how could i have forgotten about this…
i didn’t even remeber you could search the whole network for titles lol, i expected to browse folders, user by user haha
i’m currently going over all my newpipe playlists of less-mainstream artists
Soulseek for the most part is useless unless you want very obscure stuff. However the client looks very nice so good work.
Why are people using P2P?
peer-to-peer, as opposed to?
Soulseek isn’t just for music. It’s where I get most of my TTRPG PDFs