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Built-in Torrent Client for Songbird
Songbird is attempting to merge the web browsing experience with music, why not build a torrent client program (http://www.tracktrap.com/whatis.php) into Songbird. Torrents are a large part of the online music community. Of course, torrents lead into legality. Does Songbird support the illegal download of music? No, of course not. You cannot control the content your users access on the web.
Torrents have a dark side as all technology, but can prove to be a useful tool. I use my torrent client program to download legal live music, live concert videos, and demos all the time. Recently, Nine Inch Nails released "The Slip" for free in multiple formats. If you chose from the given formats the much larger FLAC or 24/48, the site provided you with a torrent file. If a major band recognizes and promotes the use of torrents, it might be a good prospect to include this function into Songbird.
Torrents have a dark side as all technology, but can prove to be a useful tool. I use my torrent client program to download legal live music, live concert videos, and demos all the time. Recently, Nine Inch Nails released "The Slip" for free in multiple formats. If you chose from the given formats the much larger FLAC or 24/48, the site provided you with a torrent file. If a major band recognizes and promotes the use of torrents, it might be a good prospect to include this function into Songbird.
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Good news, everyone: a third party is currently working on a torrent client add-on for Songbird. We wish them luck and hope to see something soon!
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Inappropriate?Correction to my post. NIN never promoted torrents, but it was one of the options for a way of downloading their new album in the higher quality formats.
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Inappropriate?I'm thinking this: there are certain legal issues at stake with torrents, so why not make an add-on for it but don't tie it in to the official build?
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I've been thinking about the legal issues associated with torrents. The liability would fall on the torrent site providing the torrent file, not the tool or program used to get it.
I agree that it is easier to develop it as an add-on and avoid the legal issues altogether. -
I've been thinking about the legal issues associated with torrents. The liability would fall on the torrent site providing the torrent file, not the tool or program used to get it.
I agree that it is easier to develop it as an add-on and avoid the legal issues altogether. -
Inappropriate?You guys have definitely hit on the salient issues regarding torrent support. Until we can properly manage the legal responsibilities surrounding torrents, this feature will most likely have to be an externally contributed add-on as Dean points out.
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Inappropriate?maby you van just make firetorrent work for songbird -
Inappropriate?Phew. A good Torrent tool like Azureus needs serious programming and is a quite complicated piece of software. I don't think I would ever use a dumbed down version for downloading torrents.
I vote no, because a good torrent software is just too big to be implemented and not bloat the player.
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Inappropriate?I agree with tylerstyle- I would really like this functionality, but I think it would be better implemented as an addon (maybe with gnutella support too).
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Inappropriate?Well uTorrent is a very simple, ligthweight torrent app, and yet it is one of the more popular ones out there. Torrent clients do not need to be as feature rich as Azureus to be incredibly powerful and useful and because of that I vote to integrate and upgrade the code for the existing open source torrent clients that already exit out there. But yes - due to legality I would only expect this as an addon. -
Inappropriate?there was an extension for firefox2 called foxtorrent that I'm sure could be ported but the developer is no longer working on it -
Inappropriate?Oh, that is a good idea. I wonder if his source code is up on the web anywhere.
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Inappropriate?There is also another ff extension called firetorrent at http://www.wyzo.com/downloads/ . It still seems to be actively developed.
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Inappropriate?I'd like to see the gnutella network and torrents handled by Songbird. That would make it the ultimate media hub for me and I don't think I'd ever need another application. -
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Inappropriate?Man, just use Torrent in your other application. This is a musik player!
And I think there are quite some legal issues to it.
I really like the implementation of Jamendo and think that this is the right way, not torrent. -
Inappropriate?I agree, the more features you try to implement - the more chance of bugs. But, on the other hand, i'd love to see a Torrent client (maybe an addon) for Songbird! Even more users would turn to SB:)
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Inappropriate?I'm quirked by the idea, but i'm afraid adding torrenting to will make my already jittery application crash altogether
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Inappropriate?Good news, everyone: a third party is currently working on a torrent client add-on for Songbird. We wish them luck and hope to see something soon!
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