Nicotine+ is a graphical client for the Soulseek peer-to-peer file sharing 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.

Check out the screenshots and source code.

The current stable version of Nicotine+ is 3.0.2, released on March 1, 2021. See the release notes.

If you have no need to modify the Nicotine+ source, you are strongly recommended to use precompiled packages for your distribution/operating system. This will save you time.

To use stable packages on Ubuntu and Debian, run the following:

sudo apt install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nicotine-team/stable
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 6CEB6050A30E5769
sudo apt update
sudo apt install nicotine

The project builds daily unstable snapshots in a separate unstable PPA. To use it, run the following:

sudo apt install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nicotine-team/unstable
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 6CEB6050A30E5769
sudo apt update
sudo apt install nicotine

Nicotine+ is available in the community repository of Arch Linux, Manjaro and Parabola. To install, run the following:

sudo pacman -S nicotine+

To install Nicotine+ on Void Linux, run the following:

sudo xbps-install -S nicotine+

To install Nicotine+ on Fedora, run the following:

sudo dnf install nicotine+

To install Nicotine+ on Guix, run the following:

guix install nicotine+

If Nicotine+ isn't packaged for your distribution/operating system yet, there are other recommended ways of installing Nicotine+.

Nicotine+ can be installed using pip. Ensure the dependencies are installed, and run the following:

pip3 install nicotine-plus

If your distribution supports Flatpak, you can install Nicotine+ from Flathub.

Download Nicotine+ on Flathub

Stable Windows installers for Nicotine+ are available to download. Installing Nicotine+ requires administrator privileges.

• 64-bit Installer
• 32-bit Installer

If you don't want to, or you aren't able to install Nicotine+ on your system, portable packages are also available. These can be run from your home directory.

• 64-bit Portable Package
• 32-bit Portable Package

Unstable Windows packages are generated after every commit to the master branch, and should only be used for testing. You need to be signed into a GitHub account to download the packages.

• 64/32-bit Installers / Packages

A stable macOS installer for Nicotine+ is available on macOS version 10.15 (Catalina) and newer.

• Download Installer

On macOS version 10.14 (Mojave), the recommended approach is to install Nicotine+ using Homebrew.

Once Homebrew is set up, run the following:

brew install nicotine-plus

Unstable macOS installers are generated after every commit to the master branch, and should only be used for testing. You need to be signed into a GitHub account to download the installers.

• Download Installer

For more experienced users and developers who want to test the latest and greatest changes in Nicotine+, building from git is described in RUNFROMGIT.md. Also read the next section about getting involved.

Please come and join us in the #nicotine+ channel on Freenode!

If you'd like to contribute, you have a couple of options to get started:

• If you'd like to translate Nicotine+ into another language it has not been already, see TRANSLATIONS.md.
• If you find a problem or have a feature request you can
  • discuss your findings on the #nicotine+ channel on the freenode IRC-Network
  • create a new issue on GitHub,
  • or post to the project mailing list.
• If you're packaging Nicotine+ for a distribution or operating system, see DEPENDENCIES.md for a list of dependencies.
• Code contributors, developers and maintainers should read DEVELOPING.md for important information about various aspects of Nicotine+ development. Developers are also encouraged to join the Launchpad Team or subscribe to the mailing list so that they are automatically notified of failed commits.
• For (unofficial) documentation of the Soulseek protocol, see SLSKPROTOCOL.md
• For a current list of things to do, see the issue tracker.
• For a list of contributors to Nicotine+ and its predecessors, see AUTHORS.md.

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

• By using Nicotine+, you agree to abide by the Soulseek rules and terms of service, as long as you are using the official Soulseek server.
• While Nicotine+ does not collect any user data, the official Soulseek server or a user-configured third-party server may potentially do so.

Nicotine+ is released under the terms of the GNU Public License v3 or later.