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  • Rex Morgan started following the idea "iPhone App for Wuala" in Wuala.

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    Rex Morgan replied on October 24, 2008 14:54 to the question "Why are songs playing through the imeem player?" in Songza:

    Rex Morgan
    This imeem player is also taking a very long time to start up. It's causing a 30 second - 1 minute pause for me between songs.
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  • Rex Morgan started following the question "What is the "Note" section." in Songza.

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    Rex Morgan asked a question in Songza on October 23, 2008 16:49:

    Rex Morgan
    Why are songs playing through the imeem player?
    Half of my playlist is now playing through the imeem player where youtube videos normally show up. Most of these songs are now different versions than the original songs I had put on my playlist. For example, when I try to play Flagpole Sitta, I now get the acappella version rather than the original version that I had originally added.

    This is very frustrating.
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    Rex Morgan replied on August 30, 2008 01:10 to the idea "Public service to easily access files directly within the Wuala DFS" in Wuala:

    Rex Morgan
    Well, whoever is hosting the service would be the one that pays for the traffic. Who pays for the traffic of imageshack.us or photobucket.com? It's possible that ads being displayed when uploading files to the service would pay for the cost of traffic.

    Using the Wuala DFS would cut down costs of having to store all of that information yourself, thus it would probably run at a slightly lower cost than the sites mentioned above.

    The service would leverage the good download speeds and lots of storage that you mentioned because it would still be using the P2P network to save money in storage instead of traffic.

    There would probably need to be a file size limit in place for the service because of restrictions in different web technology's ability to handle uploads via HTTP.

    Edit: This is all assuming it was also possible to add files to the network through a web interface as well as link to files you find while using the Wuala client. The file size limitations would need to be in place for uploading new files through this interface and not necessarily for files that already exist in the Wuala network.

    Edit 2: I'm about to go home for the weekend, please excuse the delayed response as I probably won't be able to get back to this until Tuesday.
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    Rex Morgan shared an idea in Wuala on August 30, 2008 00:14:

    Rex Morgan
    Public service to easily access files directly within the Wuala DFS
    Since Wuala has created this amazing distributed file system, I would like to see, and be apart of, the creation of a service that is constantly on the P2P network and available to download files through. For example, if someone decided to upload an image to Wuala and directly link to it on their web page. Or if someone finds a file they want to share, they can send a direct link to the file so that people can download it from the network, or take the link and embed it on their site.

    Another, more technical, example would be, I find an image that I want to put on my web page, http://wua.la/RexM/Images/SLC+Mountai... (for example). There should be a URL I can go to that will access that file directly, without having to open Wuala. So I should be able to access that file by going to:

    http://services.wua.la/download/RexM/... (for example)

    The service would then download the file I'm trying to view off the network, then display what it downloaded in the screen. (This can be done by setting the Content-type header in the response)

    I believe the biggest problem with this would be that the service would be downloading from the P2P network a lot, but maybe wouldn't necessarily be uploading/contributing very much. Let me know what you guys think, I just thought of it today so it's quite possible there's a flaw I'm not considering.

    Obviously since anyone could possibly hit the service it's basically anonymous read access, so only files that are public would be able to be viewed through this service.

  • Rex started following the idea "Opening linked private files directly (without opening the wuala window)" in Wuala.

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    Rex shared an idea in Songza on July 01, 2008 23:23:

    Rex
    Songza logging song plays to last.fm
    Added support to be able to "scrobble" songs on the last.fm website.

    It should be possible to link a last.fm account user name/password with a songza user and scrobble the songs as they're being played.