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[–] utopiah@lemmy.ml 20 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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.
[–] racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I want to upvote for your first half, but your second half is just leeching.

[–] utopiah@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days 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.

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 30 points 6 days ago

they haven't released any of the files yet, just metadata

[–] pantherina@feddit.org 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

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

[–] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I wonder could it be done as a plug-in for Popcorn Time

[–] pantherina@feddit.org 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days 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

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 14 points 6 days ago (4 children)

? Download and play the file, no?

[–] null@piefed.nullspace.lol 27 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (5 children)

Yeah, it's an odd question. Spotify is that frontend.

If they mean for local playback, then yeah, that's just any media player.

If they mean something hosted somewhere, then good luck getting funding for hosting costs, and lawyers for the barrage of C&D's.

[–] eleijeep@piefed.social 7 points 6 days ago

I assumed that they meant a streaming torrent client with some sort of search within that torrent’s file listing.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 2 points 6 days ago (32 children)

Then it's not an odd question. Spotify is the frontend for Spotify, not Anna's Archive. Local playback is different from streaming. And the content is already hosted somewhere (or will be soon).

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 days ago

Aah, the streaming generation.

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[–] lime@feddit.nu 15 points 6 days ago
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[–] eugenia@lemmy.ml 7 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Who's Anna? What is this about?

[–] ferric_carcinization@lemmy.ml 14 points 6 days ago

Anna's archive, known for "open-sourced" books. They scraped spotify recently.

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Anna's Archive is the world's largest collection of pirated books, scientific papers and more. Recently they turned to pirating music as well, starting by dumping 86 million tracks from Spotify.

All of the scraped content is available in the form of BitTorrent shares, so you can always download parts of it and spread them further.

The OP wants a convenient way to access this collection and play music from it.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

What features would people expect/want such software to have?

[–] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 6 points 6 days ago
  • Search
  • Play
  • Edit and save playlists

Those are the main ones. Sharing playlists would be nice but not necessary for a minimum viable product. I like the architecture @utopiah@lemmy.ml proposed too.

[–] saigot@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 days ago

Are you looking for something like Lidarr?

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