Mininova Launches Music Torrent Streaming
Written by Ernesto on February 09, 2008The popular BitTorrent site Mininova just released a set of new features, including music torrent streaming. The new music streaming feature uses a Java applet developed by BitLet, which is easy to use and compatible with all Java-enabled browsers.
With the new music streaming feature users can listen to individual music tracks, streamed from .torrent files. It is integrated in the featured torrents section, which lists all the distributors that take part in Mininova’s content distribution platform. An example of a streamable torrent is this track.
If you want to stream music torrents that are not listed in the featured section, you’ll need to use the Bitlet website. The service currently supports mp3 and ogg/vorbis files.
BitTorrent streaming is not restricted to music files, and indeed, Erik, one of the founders of Mininova told TorrentFreak that they are currently looking into the possibility of video streaming via BitTorrent as well. He said that Mininova will start a private BETA test of the BitTorrent video streaming integration in a few weeks.
Together with the music streaming capability, Mininova published some other new features including comment tracking, which gives users an overview of all the comments they recently made. Another new feature that might come in handy is the manual refresh of the seeder and leecher statistics that logged in users now have.
Finally, every self respecting BitTorrent sites now has its own toolbar. Isohunt and The Pirate Bay launched one a few weeks ago, so Mininova couldn’t stay behind. Personally I’m not a huge fan of these toobars, but some people seem to like it. The good news is, the toolbars are malware free, and generate some extra revenue via the integrated search box.
It’s good to see that Mininova and other BitTorrent sites continue to add new features, and improve the service to their users.
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Sounds cool
Seems good, gotta check it out.
Kewl
Good to see innovation happen on the pirate front. It’s no wonder that there’s no innovation in sight on the opposite side of the game if most of the staff there are lawyers …
It’s good, i wont argue.
But whats the meaning of wasting bandiwdth if you can actually download and keep it? Two clicks less?
Nifty! I’ll probably never use it, but it shows how the torrent protocol is developing.
Also, if any dev dudes are reading this: Please make it so that torrents can share peerlists over common files. That would be badass, and would also reduce dupe torrents.
Well considering that mininova is one of the most visited sites on the internet (top 50 btw) they need to upgrade more frequently than usual so im sure they would need money to keep their sevice top notch for everyone.
Bittorrent is about distribution, not streaming. This means peers have to give pieces in an ordered way. I think swarm speeds will suffer.
> share peerlists over common files.
Torrents contain hash pieces in specified blocks. It does not create a hash for each file.
just consider: if some day this concept works with video files as well you got yourself a cheap ass youtube-style service without any cencorship^^
great. ANOTHER site for the pathetic losers who don’t respect themselves enough to pay for software, music, etc.
My advice: stop stealing little things…go for a BMW or a bank instead.
Seemed cool, except I tried it out and
A. it only seems to work on torrents with a single mp3 or ogg file in them, meaning 99% of music torrents don’t work.
B. It didn’t work anyway on the few files I was able to find (metadata not found error).
If they perfected it and allowed it to work on single mp3s in multi-file torrents I think you’d have a great “album preview” feature on your hands. Until then, I’ll pass.
[quote comment="285535"]great. ANOTHER site for the pathetic losers who don’t respect themselves enough to pay for software, music, etc.
My advice: stop stealing little things…go for a BMW or a bank instead.[/quote]
I respect myself just fine its the music and movie industry i don’t respect. :)
This is stupid.. just another complaint for the RIAA to have… Why would u use this wen you can just download it and decide whether you want it or not then? Besides utorrent and azerious allow you to choose which tracks you want to download anyways.
the more free software the better, more converts, more sharing of culture and ideas.
is the program open-source?
This is coo land all but it keeps on crashing Firefox.
@ 11 - Incorrect! How about you make sure you know what you are talking about before posting.
Right click on torrent link you wish to download, select “Copy Shortcut” and then paste that link into the BitLet box specified.
eg. mininova.org/get/1158384
You need to copy the /get/ link not the /tor/ link otherwise it will not work.
I’ve had no issues when testing out 2 different albums, U2 and Sheryl Crow - only issue is the speed.
In a nutshell? Kind of a cool idea but if you want to sample the music first, try other sites like Amazon IMO
looks awesome, can’t wait to try this
[quote comment="285452"]It’s good, i wont argue.
But whats the meaning of wasting bandiwdth if you can actually download and keep it? Two clicks less?[/quote]
You have bandwith limits? LOL change ISP or move to another country ;) hehe
Its cool they add features, im missing one though..
The donate button without handling fees that goes strait to the artist pockets ;)
I tried it. Didn’t work… Just kept trying and trying and trying. Never did play.
Very nice. Great quality and it even seeds when you are done. Seems its basically a Java version of a stripped down torrent client. I wonder what this client shows up as in your peers list? I think this is really an excellent idea because it brings some main stream techniques for music sites to bit torrent. I always wished Oink had something like this!
http://www.h33t.com has r4d1o
java sucks
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[quote comment="285790"]java sucks[/quote]
Windows Vista sucks and there are many people that uses it.
The same people that complained about 50 MB of RAM needed for heap memory to run Java apps, now they use an operating system that sucks 2 GB of RAM.
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