Seeker

Seeker is an unofficial Android client for Soulseek, the peer-to-peer network. It uses a modified Soulseek.NET library to talk to the network’s server and directly to peers. The app can search, maintain wishlist searches, filter results, browse another user’s shared directories, transfer files, join chat rooms and exchange private messages.

It is a client, not a content service. Seeker does not supply a catalogue or decide whether a file is authorised. Search results come from other Soulseek users, and transfers are peer to peer. Copyright and other rules still apply to whatever you download or share.

Downloads, search and sharing defaults

The fixed 3.12.0 source shows several useful defaults:

• a new install accepts replies from up to 500 users per search—not 500 files—while the Reset to default action sets that limit to 250; search history is remembered;
• results from users without a free upload slot are hidden by default rather than merely ranked lower;
• downloads that failed because the peer was offline retry when that user comes back online; other failures do not get the same automatic retry;
• sharing is off until you add a folder and switch it on;
• the listener uses port 33939 and UPnP is enabled at startup independently of sharing; on Wi-Fi it requests and renews a router mapping, and both listening and UPnP can be disabled;
• the background service starts with the app, upload concurrency defaults to three, and sharing over mobile data remains allowed unless you change it;
• download concurrency has no app-set limit by default, and upload/download speed limits start disabled.

There is also an option to require a VPN before shared files are made available. That is an additional guard, not a VPN built into Seeker. Android still permits only one VPN app at a time.

Storage and network access

Seeker needs a username and password for Soulseek. The protocol does not encrypt the login request: the username and password are sent in plaintext to the Soulseek server, so do not reuse that password elsewhere. It connects to Soulseek’s non-free network, which is why IzzyOnDroid labels it NonFreeNet. It can also accept incoming peer connections; whether those work depends on the router, carrier NAT, firewall and UPnP or manual port forwarding.

The normal download and sharing flow uses Android’s system folder picker. Manage-all-files access must be granted manually in system settings and is used as a fallback when the picker is unavailable or when the user selects Force filesystem permissions; media-audio access is requested while adding a shared directory. Broad access gives the app more storage visibility, so grant it only if needed, add only folders you intend to share and review the sharing screen before leaving the service running.

About this file

Version 3.12.0, build 146, is the current IzzyOnDroid package. It is 16.8 MB, needs Android 6.0 or later and contains native code only for 64-bit ARM devices. Its SHA-256 is 25abe7d825916c2e7a832265b690d7eaab5f0a84062d7655a52053ee06bb237b, matching IzzyOnDroid’s signed index. Seeker is GPL-3.0-only with additional terms recorded in its licence file.

Flagged by IzzyOnDroid:

• NonFreeNet: Relies on or promotes a proprietary network service.

CPU types in this build: arm64-v8a (64-bit ARM, almost every phone since 2017).

Versions currently kept in the IzzyOnDroid repository. We host and check only the newest one. Full changelog.