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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Been using Seeker for a while now, will have to dl this on my mac at some point!

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

Am I about to get addicted to nicotine again?

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

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

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

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

Nice the "official" client is garbage!

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?

Why are people using P2P?