• Pantherina (he)@feddit.org
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    24 hours ago

    Get torrent archives when they are ready, select the music you like and share that. Way more sustainable than streaming from a hobby project that already costs them insane amounts

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        24 hours ago

        Or all the arr things

        Havent heard of popcorn time yet

        Edit: while I like the idea, I hope that the software at least seeds to ratio 1 by default. Otherwise it is pretty unsustainable for the network

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    2 days ago

    I would recommend against a new player when existing scriptable ones like vlc and mpv already exist.

    Instead what I would do is a plugin for either, eventually repackaged as its own player (if somehow installing the script itself is too much for some) for which the script would

    • include a very small torrent client
    • point that client to the torrent (which AFAICT is still not public, so for now a reconfigurable URL)
    • include a search function that when it fails, proposes to search within the trimmed cleaned torrent metadata then does the torrent download then plays.
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        19 hours ago

        You’d have settings for when to stop seeding, e.g. 1:1 ratio minimum, duration of the track xN, etc with a reasonable default. Suggestions welcomed.