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News

Nicotine.app is not yet a Universal Binary! It will not work on Intel Macs.

A new Nicotine.app is available! Here are the new features:

• Newer version of Nicotine, 1.0.8
• Compatible with Tiger. [See here] if you're running Panther.
• Much smaller download, only 5 MB where it used to be over 15 MB.
• New theme that's less garish and fits better with X11.

[Download it here.]

Remember, if something isn't working [read the FAQ!] Note: If you downloaded this on June 29-30, please try again, that version was buggy.

Here's a screenshot (click for larger):

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Since the original Nicotine.app was released, there have been two native Aqua clients for SoulSeek released. In my opinion, they're both much prettier than Nicotine.app, but also a bit less polished. But don't take my word for it, try out all the SoulSeek clients and make up your own mind:

• [SolarSeek]
• [soulseeX (aka SSX)]

About

This project is an example of how to turn a [Fink] package into an application bundle. No more administrator access, no more terminal. All you need is OS X Tiger and Apple's X11.

The motivation was to show Mac users the wonderful music-sharing application [Nicotine]. I've also added a more general file-sharing application, [Lopster] and a text editor, [NEdit]. All programs are under the GPL license, as are the packages.

Planned improvements.

Support

Where to go for help:

• This project's FAQs.
• [E-mail me].
• This project's [forums].
• [Nicotine forum at Soulseek Network]

Download

The packages here are distributed as a whole under the [GPL]. Here are the download links:

• [Nicotine]
• [Lopster]
• [NEdit]

If you find any bugs, [let me know]. If you don't tell me about a problem, I can't help you.

Source code for all software distributed in part or in full. If you think I am not properly complying with one or more of the necessary licenses, please contact me.

Thanks

Thanks to everybody whose work is essential to this project:

• The developers of [Soulseek], the network Nicotine uses.
• The developers of [PySoulSeek], who brought Soulseek to Unix and OS X.
• The developers of [Nicotine].
• The posters on the [Mac Soulseek forum].

• The developers of the original Napster, who invented the protocol Lopster uses.
• The developers of [OpenNap] and [OpenNap-NG], who kept the Napster network going.
• The developers of [Lopster].
• The posters on the [Mac Lopster forum].

• The developers of [LessTif], who created a free implementation of the Motif toolkit.
• The developers of [NEdit], who wrote this program.

• All the developers of and contributors to other software used. See the [Downloads section] for a complete list.
• The developers of [Fink], for making it feasible to build these programs on OS X.
• Sveinbjorn Thordarson, for the [Platypus] launcher.
• Aaron Voisine, for some [launch scripts].
• [Liron Tocker], for the Nicotine icon.
• The [Free Software Foundation], for the license.
• [Sourceforge.net], for providing hosting.

Links

• How to build nicotine with Fink: http://captnswing.net/howto/nicotine
• Formatting on this wiki: http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?TextFormattingRules

Howto

The scripts I use to build Nicotine.app are [available here]. Sorry, there's not yet any documentation, but it shouldn't be hard to figure out.

Here's the old method I used to use. It usually works, but occaisonally does not (because install_name_tool runs out of room to modify the Mach-O header).

Donate

If you like this software and want to thank those who brought it to you, consider donating. You can donate your time and expertise by helping others in the [forums]. You can also contribute code or documentation to this project, as well as any of the [other fine projects] on which it depends. If you'd like to donate money, this project's developer [accepts donations], as do many of the other projects (or their individual developers).