lemoncandy42 / nicotine-plus

Graphical client for the Soulseek peer-to-peer network

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.

Nicotine+ uses GTK for its graphical user interface, and is written in Python.

Check out the screenshots and source code.

Download Nicotine+

The current stable version of Nicotine+ is 3.1.1, released on August 2, 2021. See the release notes.

Stable builds are available for:

• GNU/Linux, *BSD and Solaris
• Windows
• macOS

If you want to download unstable builds and help test Nicotine+, see TESTING.md.

Getting Involved

If you feel like contributing to Nicotine+, several options are available:

• Report a problem or suggest improvements by
  • discussing your findings in the #nicotine+ IRC channel on Libera.Chat, or
  • creating a new issue on GitHub.
• Translate Nicotine+ into another language with Hosted Weblate, see TRANSLATIONS.md.
• Package Nicotine+ for a distribution or operating system, see DEPENDENCIES.md.
• Implement bug fixes and features, see DEVELOPING.md.
  • For a list of tasks, see the issue tracker.
  • For documentation on the Soulseek protocol, see SLSKPROTOCOL.md.

Where did the name Nicotine come from?

I was in a geeky mood and was browsing http://www.bash.org's QDB.
I stumbled across this quote:

<etc> so tempting to release a product called 'nicotine' and wait for the patches.
<etc> then i would have a reason to only apply one patch a day. otherwise, i'm going against medical advise.

So I thought what the hell and bluntly stole etc's idea.

Hyriand, founder of the Nicotine project, 2003

Legal and Privacy

• When connecting to the default Soulseek server, you agree to abide by the Soulseek rules and terms of service.
• Nicotine+ does not collect any user data. Different policies may apply to the default Soulseek server, since the Nicotine+ Team does not operate it.

License

Nicotine+ is released under the terms of the GNU Public License v3 or later. For a list of contributors, see AUTHORS.md.