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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I know this is way off topic…
but..
What ever happened with those two servers that The Pirate Bay offered to Demonoid? I’ve been really anxious to hear about Demonoid again.
Another reason p2p is booming.
We get better features from free services. And if the service isn’t good, well you get what you pay for, which is better than actually paying for crap DRM-content and pirate wannabees iTunes.
I found a new cool site which links Music Albums from iTunes store with torrent download on Mininova, Bittorrent …
It’s really a good site, I let you try: http://www.bit-tunes.com
torrentfreak dont work sundays :P
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Visit
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The toolbars suck.
An easy, legal way to search btjunkie, mininova and pirate bay - http://www.PiraBoogle.com
I’ve tried several torrents and each time the website lists the tracks included in the torrent, but says ‘could not start download’.
@ 10 sad sack, u want us steal BMW, tell us where u live then. BTW we don’t steal, sick twistie
Everytime I see a moron posting negative comments about file sharing, I’m gonna dl another discography and latest movie, and also gonna burn copies 4 sale. I suggest every1 else do the same or at least d/l. Also stop buying retail unless its pirated.
I drive a Rolls Royce cause it’s good for my voice. You can scream and shout, let it all hang out ..
but you won’t fool the children of the revolution, no!
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