slskd VS nicotine-plus

If you're looking for an API, there's slskd which runs as a daemon and offers a REST API for searching and downloading.

There's even an example daemon that can give remote access, so you wouldn't even have to have Soulseek and Seeker on the same computer: https://github.com/slskd/slskd

It’s not cli, but you could try slskd in a container - it has a nice web interface.

Another option along similar lines: https://github.com/slskd/slskd

Hi, I just stumbled upon slskd (https://github.com/slskd/slskd), and I'm struggling to configure it. I've downloaded the binary and executed it with command line and it created a config file. It keeps saying the login and password are wrong no matter what i put there. Also I have no idea how it can open the web UI. I think I'mm missing many things. I appreciate the help.

I had a similar problem: I wanted to run a Soulseek client on my home server / NAS. I eventually opted for https://github.com/slskd/slskd which provides a web interface, even though Nicotine+ is superior. Let's hope either slskd improves or Nicotine+ gets a remote control option (it can already run headlessly, so I guess develop is in progress).

Saw a post over on /r/DataHoarder regarding SLSKD. Hadn't heard of it before. Anyone vouch for it?

And, if you prefer a self hosted web app, you'll like slskd.

You better download and use Nicotine+, it's a frequently updated client for the soulseek platform.

The next version of Nicotine+ will turn the bitrate column into a quality column that shows the actual audio attributes provided. https://github.com/nicotine-plus/nicotine-plus/pull/2564

Completely agree. try this https://nicotine-plus.org

As has been said, K/s is an indication of transfer speed, and the default SLSK client does not keep track of transferred data for you. However, as there's never a bad time for a Nicotine+ plug, that does keep such stats, both for session and total transfer.

I don't know about Ventura, but why not give Nicotine+ a go. :)

Try out Nicotine+

Please be careful, there are some fake versions of the slsk client out there and they are confirmed malware. The official Soulseek website is http://www.slsknet.org/. There was a previous domain, but Nir (slsk's founder) lost control of it many years ago. I suggest you download a version of the client from this page or better yet download a copy of the third party client Nicotine+. N+ is updated far more regularly than the official slsk client (now 2+ years out of date), is less resource intensive and has better features.

The Nicotine+ repository has the most up to date protocol documentation here. This was originally documented in a couple of places but hadn't been updated in a long time.