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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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.
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…
Why are people using P2P?
peer-to-peer, as opposed to?
