Nicotine+
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.
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Been using it for quite a while, it’s very good and allows to share basically everything. I’m sharing terabytes of music but also movies, archives, etc. You can find pretty rare stuff sometimes too
Oh I didn’t know you could also download other things beside music! Thanks for the information
OMFG, Soulseek still exists?!? I thought bittorrent killed it 20 years ago.
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.
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.
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 🥲
