¶ Intro
Nicotine Plus is a free and open-source graphical client for the Soulseek peer-to-peer file sharing network. Designed for music lovers, it offers a clean interface, powerful search tools, and advanced sharing controls. Whether you’re discovering rare tracks or trading music with others, Nicotine+ provides a fast, lightweight, and cross-platform way to connect with the global Soulseek community.
¶ Availability
Please check our application chart to see which GigaDrive Plans are eligible to install this application.
¶ Features
🔍 Search Features
- Advanced search with live updates
- Filter search results (by bitrate, size, type, etc.)
- View file metadata in results
- Highlight and group results by user
- Save previous searches
📁File Sharing & Transfers
- Share entire folders with customizable rules
- Upload/download individual files or entire folders
- Automatic resuming of downloads
- Queue system for downloads/uploads
- Bandwidth throttling (per direction or overall)
- Port forwarding (manual or UPnP support)
- File hashing to avoid duplicates
- Download/upload progress display
- Retry mechanism on failed transfers
- Automatic file relocation post-download
💬 Chat & Communication
- Public chatrooms and private messaging
- Chat logging and notifications
- User status and away messages
- Block or ignore specific users
- Show or hide chatroom join/leave messages
- Unicode and emoji support in chat
📅 Now Playing & Plugins
- Integrates with media players to show “Now Playing” in chat
- Supports plugins (e.g., now-playing search, sender info, notifications)
- Show what other users are currently playing
🖥️ User Interface & Experience
- Modern GTK-based GUI
- Theme customization (light/dark modes, SVG icon support)
- Multilingual support (many languages including Czech, Tamil, etc.)
- Tray icon support for background usage
- Keyboard shortcuts and navigation aids
- Configurable notifications (transfers, chats, system alerts)
- Tabbed interface for chat and search
🔧 Settings & Configuration
- Highly configurable interface and behavior
- Save/load profiles for different usage setups
- Optional anonymous usage
- Proxy support
- Verbose logging for diagnostics
- Auto-reconnect on disconnection
🌐 Cross-Platform Compatibility
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Available for:
- Linux
- Windows
- macOS
- FreeBSD / OpenBSD
- Solaris
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Flatpak, Snap, PPA, source, and Docker install methods available
⚙️ Performance & Stability
- Lightweight and resource-efficient
- Fast rescan of shares
- Optimized memory use during large searches or transfers
- Ongoing performance improvements in new versions
🔄 Release & Maintenance
- Actively maintained with frequent updates
- Open-source under the GNU GPL
- GitHub-hosted for issue tracking, contributions, and development
- Continuous integration testing (GitHub Actions)
- Development tools and debug logging options
¶ Installing Adminer
- Navigate to the Application Manager page and search for
nicotine-plus. - Click icon to open the installation window and tap Install to start the installation process.
- Once the installation is complete, click icon to open the Access Info page. Then click Go To Application to access
nicotine-plus.