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nukeop / nuclear

Streaming music player that finds free music for you
https://nuclear.js.org/
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Integration with bittorrent #123

Open mrd0ll4r opened 5 years ago

mrd0ll4r commented 5 years ago

...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.

nukeop commented 5 years ago

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).

mrd0ll4r commented 5 years ago

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...

JohnDoee commented 5 years ago

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:

Korb commented 2 months ago

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.

nukeop commented 1 month ago

Do you mean rutracker? That would be pretty cool to have.