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bathory Jun 23, 2023

Nicotine+ - Graphical Client For The Soulseek Peer-To-Peer Network For Music

Nicotine+ - Graphical Client For The Soulseek Peer-To-Peer Network For Music - Lemmy

# Nicotine+ Nicotine+ is a graphical client for the Soulseek [http://www.slsknet.org/news/] 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 only Music. The most available format is MP3, M4A and FLAC but there are other too. Almost any song/album is on there so you will have no problem finding what you need. You need to share music yourself otherwise there is a possibility you will get banned. I added a YouTube video tutorial so you can understand it better. Screenshots: [https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/a2f3dd9a-2c57-42e8-a4aa-0ac614aaaaa6.png] [https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/8180039d-b3c8-40d0-ab6f-986ed5fa34ef.png] [https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/a9e031a6-b0ae-4c3c-bf78-b2a1521ecac3.png] Downloads are available for: - GNU/Linux, *BSD and Solaris [https://github.com/nicotine-plus/nicotine-plus/blob/master/doc/DOWNLOADS.md#gnulinux-bsd-solaris] - Windows [https://github.com/nicotine-plus/nicotine-plus/blob/master/doc/DOWNLOADS.md#windows] - macOS [https://github.com/nicotine-plus/nicotine-plus/blob/master/doc/DOWNLOADS.md#macos] **** YouTube Tutorial [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5I605hVjGg] Website [https://nicotine-plus.org/]

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kestrel7 Jun 23, 2023

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.

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RandomLegend Jun 23, 2023

Apparently you know your way around there... can you ELI5 what soulseek exactly is? Is this based on torrenting? Is it comparable to what limewire was back in the day?

Stumbled across it and don't know what makes this so charming for so many people

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TornadoValley Jun 23, 2023

it’s more like limewire as it does not use the BitTorrent protocol but rather direct P2P connections to other users. In that case it tends to be slower

It’s popular cause it’s probably the most popular P2P non torrent app and there’s a lot of hardcore users sharing over 100k music files including real rarities and mostly public to all. There are some locked file users in search of trades and that’s been hurting the overall community arguably as well as people who ban if you don’t share anything but generally most are willing to share whatever to whoever as long as you don’t download all their shares at once

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RandomLegend

Thank you very much :-)