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soulseek-rs-modded/soulseek-rs
Michel de Graaf 1551fbbf1b perf(daemon): answer search polls with counts instead of copies
A CLI one-off search leaves its result set in the daemon until someone
forgets it, and an attached TUI made that permanent state expensive:
every 100ms tick asked for the search list twice, and each answer
deep-cloned every result of every search under the context lock just to
sum file counts - stalling the thread that stores incoming results.
Worse, any active or selected search pulled its entire result set over
the socket again each tick, megabytes of JSON repeating what the window
already held.

search.list is now backed by search_file_counts, a walk of the cache
instead of a copy of it; the TUI syncs once per tick and re-fetches a
result set only when the session's file count differs from what it
holds. get_search_results_count reads the same summary, so get --pick
first against a daemon polls a count instead of the full set, and both
session kinds now count files where the local one counted peer
responses.
2026-08-09 22:16:27 +02:00
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2026-07-29 11:04:39 +02:00

soulseek-rs

A Soulseek client for the terminal: a full-screen TUI, and a one-shot command surface built for scripts and agents.

Website: https://re-invention.nl/soulseek-rs/

Installation

brew install michel/tap/soulseek-rs   # macOS and Linux, prebuilt
cargo install soulseek-rs             # anywhere with a Rust toolchain

Usage

Run it with no subcommand for the interactive TUI:

soulseek-rs

Anything else is a one-shot command that runs headless. stdout carries records only, stderr carries progress, and the exit code carries the verdict:

soulseek-rs search <QUERY>                # print matching files
soulseek-rs get <QUERY>                   # search, pick the best, download
soulseek-rs download <USER> <PATH>        # fetch one known file
soulseek-rs download --stdin              # fetch files listed on stdin
soulseek-rs browse <USER>                 # list a user's shared files
soulseek-rs serve [--follow]              # stay online sharing, stream uploads
soulseek-rs whoami                        # confirm credentials and connection
soulseek-rs user <NAME>                   # a peer's status and share counts
soulseek-rs room list|say|users|listen
soulseek-rs message send|read
soulseek-rs shares list|add|remove|status|reindex
soulseek-rs config path|list|get|set
soulseek-rs portmap                       # test automatic port mapping
soulseek-rs completions install           # tab completion for bash/zsh/fish

Add --json for newline-delimited JSON instead of tab-separated text, so commands compose:

soulseek-rs search "rjd2" --json \
  | jq -c 'select(.size > 5000000 and .free_slot)' \
  | soulseek-rs download --stdin

Exit codes: 0 success, 2 usage or config, 3 connect or login, 4 nothing found, 5 timed out, 6 transfer failed, 7 session lost mid-command, 1 unexpected error.

The full README documents every command, record shape, flag, environment variable and config.toml key.

Building from Source

git clone https://github.com/michel/soulseek-rs.git
cd soulseek-rs
cargo build --release

Library

To build your own Soulseek client, use the soulseek-rs-lib crate: the protocol implementation this client is built on.