Please keep chatter focused on technical discussion of the soulseek client and software environment. The client prompts you to configure your router to forward the selected port when one is randomly generated. Client for the edonkey peertopeer file sharing network, originally intended to bring it to virtually all the major unix platforms, with a particular emphasis on linux. Used to be that qt 4 was the standard on virtually all linux distributions, then some distributions started using qt 5 as the default. Soulseek is a peertopeer p2p filesharing network and application. At that point i started linking qt into the client executable statically to ensures it runs no matter what version of qt the distribution uses. Hi, i have recently installed nicotine soulseek client, and i am not having any luck getting it to work. Download it and discover its great chat and song search system. Soulseek has a number of options, and in this walkthrough well walk you through the settings and explain what they do and how to correctly setup the client for your needs.
This is only the daemonserver part, no clients besides cli are developed here requirements. Its not finished, but it does work, so you could try that if you cannot get the windows version working on linux. Soulseek seems to only find music files and i have not been able to pull up results for movie files or photos. The older and now the less used one is accessed by soulseek client 156. If youre posting about a problem with the client, please specify whether youre using soulseekqt or soulseek ns no longer supported, the client build number should appear at the top of the client application window, and what operating system youre on. Soulseek is a p2p program that was born in order to share music, intending to be a platform to help new artists find a place in the music industry, or at least, to let them be listened to by soulseek users. Windows, macos et linux et sur mobile android, ios sous forme dapplication. Someone quietly installed soulseek on my girlfriends. How to install soulseekqt on linux 64bit and integrate. Musetup will let you know what are the basic requirements. Soulseek for linux is a gui client for the system written in pythonwxpython. Nov 20, 2019 soulseekqt is the official crossplatform soulseek client for mac, windows, and linux. Other interesting linux alternatives to em client are evolution free, open source, mailspring freemium, claws mail free, open source and geary free, open source.
It features uploading, downloading, searching and chatting, with strict bandwidth control, and tries to look like pysoulseek. Soulseek is one of the bestknown programs to share music. Want to know which application is best for the job. Soulseek was created by nir arbel, a former napster programmer.
It is actively developed and supports most of soulseek features downloads and uploads with rate limiting, searches, wishlist, rooms, interests, browsing, user lists, private chat. The soulseek client itself may have an interfacedesign that ranges from merely average to downright clunky and the servers that the soulseek network runs on have always had reliability issues, but the massive and highly diverse quantity of music thats available on the network more than makes up for the shortcomings of the client. Soulseek is an adfree, spyware free, just plain free file sharing network for windows, mac and linux. The downside is that the font often looks weird in that case. Theres a new official crossformat qtbased soulseek client being developed. No longer being developed, and users of xmule are encouraged to move to the bittorrent network or use amule in the official xmule website. Qpkg soulseek slsk client qnap nas community forum. The most popular linux alternative is thunderbird, which is both free and open source. It is configured with musetup and can be controlled with variety of linux manual pages session 1 starting with m. Another such client, named nicotine, ran on all unixbased systems, along with microsoft windows and on mac os x. Museekd is a headless client daemon for the soulseek p2p network and for soulfind servers. It lets you to securely chat, share photos, videos, and more, using openpgp to authenticate peers and openssl to encrypt all communication. The problem is when i launch it, it just thinks for a long time, and then shuts down. Two independent networks make up soulseek since 2006, both run by the same management.
Retroshare is a open source crossplatform, private and secure decentralized communication system. It includes the qt gui, museeq, and the pythoncurses tui, museekplus. Soulseek grew and now it is used for sharing all kind of files, but specifically music. The term soulseek might refer to 1 one of the two networks, or 2 one of the three official user client interfaces. To install simply run install will prompt for admin password in this i utilized the binary available for download on the official soulseek webpage. Soulseekqt is the official crossplatform soulseek client for mac, windows, and linux. Solved which soulseek client do you use arch linux. A desktop client for the soulseek peertopeer file sharing network. Soulseek is an application with which youll be able to share music with other users. It is now a valuable resource for people who want to make the most of their mobile devices, from customizing the look and feel to adding new functionality. It is configured with musetup and can be controlled with variety of. One of the most reliable and greatest p2p record sharing client is the emule. Keep in mind soulseek works, for the most part, fine out of the box.
Soulseekx is a client for the soulseek peertopeer filesharing network, written in java at least 1. By joining our community you will have the ability to post topics, receive our newsletter, use the advanced search, subscribe to threads and access many other special features. Soulseek is a free p2p file sharing application for windowsbased computers that wants to be unique. This will make soulseek more os independent and also more flexible for new functions and uis. Nicotine is a client for soulseek, a light and efficient file sharing system, written in python and using the gtk2 toolkit, based on the pysoulseek project. Nicotineplus is a fork of hyriands original nicotine soulseek client. Then it will not work if a minimum configuration has not been done, this can be done by running musetup in terminal. If that doesnt suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to em client and many of them are available for linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Soulseek now generates a random listening port number when it first starts to avoid detection by isps. So if you are an independent musician or a part of a music band then you can opt to choose the soulseek p2p download from the official website of the nir arbel and is supported in windows, macos as well a linux. May 02, 2015 soulseek has a number of options, and in this walkthrough well walk you through the settings and explain what they do and how to correctly setup the client for your needs.
Problems with nicotine soulseek client i installed it through rpm drake, so all the dependencies were satisfied automatically. In order to use museeq or any other soulseek client, one needs to have museekd installed the deamon. This project stands for a soulseek client that will work in a browser. Soulseek is used mostly to exchange music, although users are able to share a variety of files. This is only the daemonserver part, no clients besides cli are developed here. Soulseek is a unique adfree, spyware free, and just plain free file sharing application. Soulseek is a free p2p file sharing application for windowsbased computers that wants to.