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

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.

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 🥲

This is by far the best way to get your hands on high-quality, less-mainstream music. Been using it for years now.

Am I about to get addicted to nicotine again?

I used the regular soulseek client via the Linux appimage, but I switched to nicotine plus when I found it on flathub and I can confidently say I'm never looking back.

Wow, I love slsk and have been using it since literally about 2004 (it has absolutely defined my taste in music), but I didn't know there were any options for clients except for the main one. This is great!

If you're reading this and you've never checked out slsk, consider this your invitation. I have spent hours trying to "stump" it by searching for increasingly-obscure music. Someone always has it on slsk.

EDIT: HOLY JESUS HALLELUJAH IT HAS DARK MODE

Does soulseek work with lidarr in anyway? I have been using lidarr for mostly any music content downloading from Torrent and usernet sites.

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

Love nicotine+. Choosing not to see those locked file assholes was the best gift this interface gave me.

Yaar, dis be good work. I can swab the deck and hear the Siren's Call too.

I've never heard of Soulseek before, but it sounds like exactly the sort of thing I've been trying to find for years! I'm so sick of Spotify, I want to get back into collecting locally but it's hard. This looks perfect :)

Soulseek isn't just for music. It's where I get most of my TTRPG PDFs

Soulseek for the most part is useless unless you want very obscure stuff. However the client looks very nice so good work.

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

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?

Why are people using P2P?