nukeop
Integration with bittorrent
...to truly be popcorntime for music.
I imagine integration with popular private trackers, to avoid downloading any famous-song.mp3.exe.zips. Also they usually have a relatively well-organized library to tap.
I thought about this, but the problem is that most music on torrent trackers is shared via zipped albums, and there's no way to selectively stream a single song. Private trackers would be a good choice but that would require a lot of manual fiddling by the users to use their credentials, and I imagine it would increase the risk of being banned and losing a precious account (or at the very least lowering seed ratio).
Yes, I'd avoid public trackers, for reasons of malware and the archives issue. I agree working with private trackers might be a bit annoying - you really want to keep the stuff seeding. I still think it would be fantastic, and honestly sometimes ratio doesn't matter as much. As a first approach, all the downloaded data could just be saved locally to at least avoid re-downloading it. Seeding would be nice, but I see how shipping a complete bittorrent client that can handle possibly hundreds of torrents is a bit overkill.
Alternative idea: What about a plugin or any integration of using a library via sftp? As I see it, you're already considering using a local library, so that would probably not be too far off. From there, it would then only be a small-ish step to integrate the whole thing with a remote rtorrent/deluge/... client to handle the actual torrent stuff.
It's all just brainstorming though... But it would be super cool :)
I actually many times thought about a project to unify the APIs of private tracker sites to make the whole integration easier, because I was (and am) very interested in the "popcorntime for music". Maybe something like that would be useful now...
If you ever want to add streaming support for private trackers, your only torrent client choice is deluge with a plugin I made called deluge-streaming.
With music being small files, it might be possible to just download a file before playing it.
... unify the APIs of private tracker sites
This can be quite hard as sites have a tendency to spit out data organized differently with very different models related to metadata :smile:
the problem is that most music on torrent trackers is shared via zipped albums
The largest Russian-language torrent tracker directly prohibits posting music in archives. I rarely did not find the discography of some musical artist on it, and I recommend this site for experiments on introducing p2p support into Nuclear Player.
