The skill buried daemon mode two-thirds down as a scaling trick, and still
offered --username "$SOULSEEK_USERNAME-$RANDOM" as the way to run commands in
parallel. That is worse than underselling it: the server allows one session
per account, so a per-run name means registering a throwaway account on a
public server for every search — account churn on infrastructure other people
maintain and share.
Starting a daemon is now the first instruction in the file, with the reason
stated, and the random-username idiom is named as the anti-pattern rather than
offered as an alternative. Exit 7's advice changes accordingly: it means
something else logged in as you, and the fix is a daemon, not a new name.
Three agents given only this file and a parallel-work task all started a
daemon and none invented a username.
The startup snippet also had a shell precedence bug: in
`daemon status || daemon &`, the & backgrounds the whole list, so it returned
instantly and the next command raced the login it was meant to use. Replaced
with a bounded wait, checked against a live server.
The OpenRPC document is the machine-readable contract; daemon-protocol.md
covers what a schema cannot say — framing, the auth handshake, and that
events are pushed, unreplayable, and will disconnect a client that stops
reading.
The slot cap merged from master defaults to 2 uploads, and the CLI capped
downloads at 5. Those are the numbers you pick when your own bandwidth is the
scarce resource, but a Soulseek transfer is paced by the peer on the other end
— usually a few hundred KiB/s — so what fills a modern link is many transfers
at once, not faster ones. Upload slots go to 10, downloads to 20. The queue
itself stays: privileged users being able to jump it is a condition of being a
tolerated third-party client.
serve_file also slept half a second after the last byte so the downloader could
drain before the socket closed. With a cap that is time no other peer can use,
and 64 uploads over 10 slots paid it six times over. A half-close says "that is
the whole file" and TCP still delivers everything written before the FIN.
Measured with 64 waiting peers: 2 slots 24.2s, 8 slots 6.2s, 32 slots 3.1s; at
10 slots the linger alone was 5.4s to 3.05s.
Running several one-shot commands at once returned "no results" for queries that
had plenty. Four defects, each of which made a dead session look like an empty
network:
- The peer listener bound its port inside a detached thread and panicked on
EADDRINUSE, unwinding that thread alone. The process carried on with no
listener, so no peer could deliver a search response. `Listen::bind` now takes
the socket before login and falls back to an ephemeral port when the
configured one is held.
- SetWaitPort advertised the configured port whether or not it was bound, so
peers dialled a sibling process that discarded responses to tickets it never
issued. The port the listener really holds is what gets advertised, mapped
through UPnP, and reported by `whoami` and `serve`.
- A zero-byte read is EOF on a TCP socket, but MessageReader reported it as
success, so a server that closed cleanly left the actor polling a dead socket.
It is now an error, and Relogged (code 41) has a handler. The peer actor
classifies that error: a control connection that was established and then
closed is a clean disconnect, because peers drop idle sockets while the bytes
move over their own connection, and reporting an error there fails every
download queued with that peer including the one streaming. A connection that
never established keeps the error path, which is what the server-brokered
fallback reads to know a peer is unreachable.
- A session the server cut off - usually because another process logged in under
the same name - exited 4, documented as "it worked and found nothing". Callers
concluded the file was unavailable. Sessions now record why they ended and
those verdicts become exit 7.
The server allows one session per account, so concurrency still needs a distinct
--username per run; SKILL.md documents that. The listener port needs no such
care any more.
Six e2e tests against soulfind cover it, each of which fails without the fix: a
taken listen port, a displaced session, three clients searching at once under
one configured port, the two CLI equivalents, and a peer that hangs up its
control connection while a transfer is still to come.
BREAKING CHANGE: `Listen::start` is replaced by `Listen::bind` and
`Listen::serve`, so the caller owns the socket and can read the port it actually
bound. `Client::listen_port` and `Client::session_loss` are new.
Closes the last two gaps in Soulseek's list of features an alternative client
must implement to be tolerated, and adds the result filters Nicotine+ has had
all along.
Wishlist: server code 103 is sent and code 104's announced interval is kept
rather than logged and discarded, so the re-search timer runs off the schedule
the server set. `wish add|remove|list|run` plus `serve --wishlist`; wishes
persist in config.toml as a TOML array so a comma inside a query survives.
`wish run` prints search-shaped records, so it pipes into `download --stdin`.
Privilege recognition: the code-69 user list is parsed instead of counted and
dropped, and code 92 answers `whoami` as `privilege_seconds`. Uploads now go
through a queue with a slot cap (`--upload-slots`, default 2) that serves
privileged users first — the cap is what makes the ordering mean anything, so
they are one change. `PlaceInQueueRequest` (peer code 51) is answered, where it
previously had no handler at all, and a departed peer's slot is released so a
stalled peer cannot wedge uploads shut.
Search filters: `--exclude`, `--extension`, `--min-size`, `--max-size` beside
the existing `--min-bitrate` and `--free-slots`, in one flattened arg group
shared by `search`, `get` and `wish run`.
Also serialises the library e2e suite behind the same gate `cli_e2e` already
uses: the new queue tests hold peer sockets open on purpose, which starved
concurrently-spawned soulfinds and failed unrelated download tests with
`login: Timeout`.
BREAKING CHANGE: `UploadStatus` gains a `Queued(u32)` variant, so an exhaustive
match on it no longer compiles, and `cli::Commands` gains `Wish`.
Downloads buffered the whole file in memory and wrote it out only on
success, so an interrupted transfer left nothing behind and always
started over. The START_DOWNLOAD offset was hardcoded to zero on the
download side and discarded on the upload side, so neither half of the
protocol's resume support was wired up.
Bytes now stream into `<file>.part` as they arrive and it is renamed
only once the file is whole. A new attempt sends the partial file's
length as the START_DOWNLOAD offset, and `serve_file` seeks to the
offset a peer asks for rather than replaying from the start. A `.part`
at or past the expected size is treated as stale and restarted.
Partial files are kept out of the share index, since the download
directory is shared by default.
`completions install` generates the script from the same clap definition
the binary parses with, so it cannot drift from `--help`, and writes it
where each shell already looks. fish scans its own completions directory
unprompted; bash and zsh get one marked `source` line appended to their rc
file, because nothing puts a per-user directory on their search path by
default. `completions uninstall` takes back exactly those lines and leaves
the rest of the file alone.
v8.0.0 is on crates.io, so the Cargo.toml examples in the readme and on the
install page were a major behind.
Replace the 5.x upgrade note with one that does not name a version, so it
stops going stale every release.
Drop the "This structure allows" bullets justifying a two-crate workspace,
collapse four one-line "To run X:" stubs into a single block, and lose the
adverbs, the emoji heading, and the bolded emphasis.
Project Goals no longer claims a hard no-external-crates rule for the
library, which stopped being the stance; it says lean instead. Also fixes
"Headless mode daemon mode".
Recorded with asciinema against the live network and rendered with
svg-term, so the demo is vector text instead of pixels: 20 KB gzipped
against 400 KB, crisp at any width, and it links through to the site.
The mark is a glyph; the wordmark reads "soulseek-rs" outright, which is what
a README header wants. Both tones ship so prefers-color-scheme can pick one.
Named for the background they sit on rather than their Figma tone, because the
existing logo-ink/logo-light pair means the opposite of what it sounds like.
The logo already lived in website/public; copying it into fixtures meant two
files to keep in step for no gain. The README now references the original.
Add a release job that regenerates Formula/soulseek-rs.rb in michel/homebrew-tap
from the archives the binaries matrix uploads, and lead with
`brew install michel/tap/soulseek-rs` in the READMEs and on the website.
Thirty-eight of them, in three roles that each wanted a different fix: label
separators in lists became colons, table cells standing in for "no value"
became the word they meant (required, unset, not a config key), and the
mid-sentence asides became commas, parentheses, or two sentences.
The logo ships in both variants the site uses, picked by prefers-color-scheme
so it stays legible on either GitHub theme — the names are inverted from what
you would guess, `ink` being the cream one for dark backgrounds. The opening
copy now matches the site rather than describing the project twice in two
voices, and still says the repository holds a library as well as a client.
The site went up but nothing pointed at it. `homepage` in the workspace
package metadata gives both crates.io pages a link, and each README opens with
one, so someone landing on the crate or the repo can find the install guide
and the config reference.
The READMEs still described the flags and spellings the one-shot rework
replaced, and said nothing about `skills`. The root README gains an agent
skills section covering install, update and removal; the crate READMEs catch
up with the current command set, record shapes and library API.
An agent driving the binary could search, fetch and chat, but it could not be
a peer: nothing kept a session online to serve files, nothing reported an
upload, shares could only be set at startup, and there was no way to ask
whether a peer was worth queueing to or to check credentials without doing
something else.
New commands:
serve [--follow] stay online sharing; one record per upload
whoami credentials, connection and what we offer
user <NAME> a peer's presence and share counts
room users <ROOM> the member roster
shares list|add|remove|status|reindex
config path|list|get|set
`config` and `shares list|add|remove` need no account, so they run before the
credential check — asking a script to log in for a `config get` would be a
poor trade. `serve` is the only place uploads are visible: they live in the
process serving them, so a one-shot `uploads list` could print nothing but an
empty list.
Library additions, all request/poll pairs matching the existing conventions:
- Client::room_members, kept current from the join and leave events
- Client::request_user_info / user_info, backed by new handlers for
GetUserStatus (7) and GetUserStats (36) — codes the dispatcher previously
logged as unhandled. The wire format is taken from soulfind's own source
and pinned by an e2e test that asserts a peer's real share count.
- UserInfo carries presence and stats as Options, so a reply that never
arrived cannot be read as "offline" or "shares nothing"
- request_user_info clears the previous answer, so the documented poll loop
observes this request rather than the last one
- ServerMessage and ClientOperation are now #[non_exhaustive]: every protocol
message the client learns adds a variant, and that should not break callers
- the crate root and prelude re-export every type a Client method returns
Also pins the output contract with tests: under --json, stdout carries only
newline-delimited JSON across fifteen command shapes while progress still
goes to stderr, and a failing command writes nothing to stdout at all.
The one-shot half of the binary could not finish its headline task without a
human at the keyboard: `search` opened a full-screen picker, panicked with
exit 101 when there was no terminal, and no command could fetch a known file
at all. Everything exited 0 whatever happened, wrote emoji prose to stdout,
and ignored --download-dir, SOULSEEK_DOWNLOAD_DIR and config.toml.
The commands are now built for scripts and agents:
search download get browse room list|say|listen message send|read
stdout carries records only (tab-separated, or NDJSON under --json), stderr
carries progress, and the exit code carries the verdict: 2 usage, 3 connect,
4 no results, 5 timed out, 6 transfer failed. `get` does search, rank and
fetch in one step, and `search --json | jq ... | download --stdin` composes.
Global flags parse in any position and every one has a SOULSEEK_ variable and
a config.toml key resolved through a single precedence chain.
Defects found and fixed along the way, each covered by a test:
- a download with an unknown size was finalized against zero bytes and saved
as an empty file; the size now comes from the peer's share listing
- transfers are keyed by a hash of the remote path, so the same path from two
peers shadowed itself and two files sharing a basename overwrote each
other; both collisions are now dropped with a warning
- `message send` and `room say` slept 500ms and claimed success; they now
wait for a server reply queued behind the message before reporting
- Client::login waited on an unbounded channel and never returned when the
server went quiet
Deleted the TUI picker the old `search` drove (download_selector,
MultiDownloadProgress, SearchConfig): 1,573 lines out, 926 in. The
interactive TUI is otherwise untouched.
BREAKING CHANGE: `rooms` and `chat` become `room list|say|listen` and
`message send|read`; `--disable-listener` becomes `--no-listener`; the
unprefixed DISABLE_LISTENER, LISTENER_PORT, LOG_FILE and
MAX_CONCURRENT_DOWNLOADS variables are now SOULSEEK_-prefixed; `search` no
longer opens a picker or downloads anything.
Address the gap that the port mapper's UPnP path and gateway discovery
had no automated coverage (only NAT-PMP did):
- UPnP e2e: split map_via_gateway out of discovery and drive it through
igd-next against an in-process mock IGD (a std HTTP server returning a
canned SOAP envelope). Verifies the real add_port SOAP round-trip and
that we request the exact external/internal port + LAN client.
- default_gateway parsing is now pure, testable functions with unit
tests for the macOS and Linux formats (including the 0.0.0.0 skip).
- New 'portmap' CLI subcommand (needs no login): synchronously probes
UPnP/NAT-PMP against the real router and reports whether the port was
opened + the external address, then removes the test mapping — so a
user can verify reachability on their own network.
9 port_mapping tests now cover the NAT-PMP protocol, the UPnP SOAP
round-trip, gateway parsing, and the map/renew/cleanup lifecycle.
The member list in an open room is now selectable with the arrow keys.
Press 'b' to browse the highlighted user's shared files (opens the
browse tree) or 'm' to send them a private message (opens the compose
bar pre-filled with the recipient). Selection resets when switching
rooms; RoomsState navigation is unit-tested.
Add private messaging to the TUI:
- 'm' opens the command bar in message mode; type '<recipient> <text>' and
Enter sends it via the client;
- incoming messages are polled each tick into an inbox;
- 'i' toggles a centered inbox popup listing sent/received messages.
The shared command bar now carries a mode (search vs message) so the prefix,
submit action and shortcut hints follow what is being typed.
Extend the existing CI workflow with an ubuntu-only "End-to-end (soulfind)"
job that builds soulfind from source (LDC + `dub build :server`), points
SOULFIND_BIN at it, and runs the e2e suite with SOULSEEK_E2E_REQUIRED=1.
Also widen the clippy job to the whole workspace.
The e2e harness gains SOULSEEK_E2E_REQUIRED: when set, a missing/unstartable
server is a hard failure instead of a silent skip, so CI genuinely exercises
the client end-to-end. Add e2e coverage for two existing behaviours a single
server can verify: wrong-password rejection and concurrent logins.
Adds soulseek-rs-lib/tests/e2e.rs, which drives the client's public API
(connect, login, search) against a real Soulseek server. The harness is
server-optional so cargo test stays green everywhere: it uses
SOULSEEK_TEST_SERVER if set, otherwise spawns a soulfind binary (SOULFIND_BIN
or a soulfind/bin/soulfind checkout in a parent dir) on an ephemeral port with
a throwaway database, and skips with a notice when no server is available.
Uses only std and the library's public API — no new dependencies. Documents how
to run it (including the macOS soulfind SQLite workaround) in the README.
Michel de Graaf