OinkPlus Adds Music Discovery to BitTorrent Sites

Written by Smaran on November 11, 2007 

A greasemonkey script that was supposed to enhance music discovery for OiNK users has now expanded to include other BitTorrent sites and is available for download.

Indieana, a former OiNK member had been working on a greasemonkey script that would pull data, links and song previews from around the web and add it to pages on OiNK. Unfortunately OiNK is no more, but the good news is that the script has now been modified to work with Mininova, The Pirate Bay, STmusic, FunkyTorrents what.cd, Libble, and, of course, Waffles.

OinkPlus displays a list of similar artists, a link to other torrents from that artist on the BitTorrent site you’re on, the artist/band’s bio, a Last.fm player, and, if available, a MySpace player. The script also displays links to the artist’s presence on Wikipedia, Amazon, Hype Machine, Pandora, and so on.

The extra data loads beneath the regular content on the .torrent download pages and integrates very well into the style of each of the compatible sites. Personally I find the script very useful to preview tracks from artists and to discover new music. Below is an example of what it looks like on The Pirate Bay.

OinkPlus on The Pirate Bay

Indieana told TorrentFreak that in future versions it will be possible to disable certain features or block the use of OinkPlus on certain sites.

Music discovery is an essential part of private torrent sites. Although OinkPlus was originally developed exclusively for OiNK, after the site was taken down by the BPI and the IFPI, its author decided to go all-out and support not only the most popular private torrent sites, but some of the most popular public ones too.

You can download the script here. You’ll need the Greasemonkey extension for Firefox. If you use Safari on the Mac, check out GreaseKit (formerly Creammonkey).

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28 Responses

1 Nov 11, 2007 at 22:57 by alto

Nice feauture!

2 Nov 11, 2007 at 23:08 by Anonymous

Makes me miss OiNK!!!!

3 Nov 11, 2007 at 23:09 by MooMoo

Nice move to spread it out.
Props Indieana !

4 Nov 11, 2007 at 23:10 by Axel

Lovely feature.. its actaully forming the p2p more to a “shopping cart”

5 Nov 11, 2007 at 23:24 by Soph.

Gratula Sikritől is :)

6 Nov 11, 2007 at 23:42 by Ghestalt

…Nice foot print

7 Nov 12, 2007 at 01:02 by Spanky69

The only greasemonkey script I ever found useful.

8 Nov 12, 2007 at 01:45 by b

This makes Firefox _really_ slow and unresponsive for me, when loading torrent pages.

Still an awesome script, but I suspect I’ll be keeping it turned off most of the time.

9 Nov 12, 2007 at 01:56 by shawners

This is why i loved oink and all other music bt sites BLOW. The other ones didnt care about artist or if you want to find artist you may like. Oink wanted to show you artist that are similar to the ones you like and let you listen to the music and learn about the band before downloading. All other bt sites are just a oINK rippoff.

10 Nov 12, 2007 at 04:47 by h33t

how cool is that!

great idea

11 Nov 12, 2007 at 06:51 by welovemusique

Indieana is a genius. His script isn’t limited to bittorrent trackers only. He helped me to implement it on my webzine We Love Musique as well. Go and check the result here:

http://www.welovemusique.com/announcements/enhance-your-we-love-musique-experience/

Long live musique.

12 Nov 12, 2007 at 07:53 by RandomGuy

Too bad I use Opera ):

13 Nov 12, 2007 at 07:54 by Jasper van Weerd

This is a great feature!

14 Nov 12, 2007 at 07:56 by 14-16

Is this script actually something special? When I tried to use it, I found it slow and bloated and that I was more efficient by simply visiting last.fm and wikipedia on my own.

Why does this thing get so much attention?

15 Nov 12, 2007 at 08:06 by Zeke

What do you mean so much attention? You probably havent even heard of it until now

16 Nov 12, 2007 at 08:10 by 14-16

@15
No, it was on the frontpage of both OiNK and What.cd

17 Nov 12, 2007 at 09:46 by mondo

this is great news! i’d say this script doubled the value of oink immediately for me.
also, is it just me or has funkytorrents not worked for the past week+?

18 Nov 12, 2007 at 19:35 by Outcast

[quote comment="210955"]Too bad I use Opera ):[/quote]

Opera can also do JavaScript.

Go to Tools -> Preferences -> Content -> JavaScript Options -> User JavaScript Files and point to the folder that you downloaded the .js file(s) to.

19 Nov 12, 2007 at 23:04 by rccc

It seems not to work with Safari and GreaseKit … :-(

20 Nov 12, 2007 at 23:38 by Ben Jones

yeah, Opera shines above fireFox again in that it handles these scriptlets natively, without having to install a plugin to run it. (and i’m not even going ot start on the whole faster, more features, less bugs etc. thing)

21 Nov 13, 2007 at 01:16 by persuasion

yes, sick

22 Nov 13, 2007 at 03:19 by apples

we really need to get this working with greasekit… :(

23 Nov 13, 2007 at 11:14 by Anonymous

awesome script ..

24 Nov 13, 2007 at 16:50 by iVasto

When this was just for OiNK it didn’t work for Opera because of how it fetched the data (I believe). There was a script for Opera that was made and I believe the author expressed interest in porting it to different sites as well.

25 Nov 14, 2007 at 02:37 by KIMP

Anyone been able to make it work with Safari??

26 Nov 15, 2007 at 07:34 by wakest

please, someone get this to work with safari, I beg of you.

27 Nov 24, 2007 at 22:48 by theme

OinkPlus for Opera :D
http://what.cd/forums.php?action=viewtopic&topicid=1107

28 Feb 23, 2008 at 06:19 by anon

The negative commenter’s are nuts, this script is slick. Even on an old g4 this thing is very quick. The only feature request is perhaps having the ability to preview the track listings , not just previewing the artist. That would make it perfect.

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