Comments on: Bitlet: stream torrent music

Bitlet: stream torrent music

goodnewsfortheinsane — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 13:30:42 -0800

Bitlet allows you to stream audio directly from a torrent.

By: Blazecock Pileon

Blazecock Pileon — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 13:38:59 -0800

I'm curious how listening to a contiguous piece of music works, when a torrent feed gives you pieces of the data out of order, and all over the place.

By: anifinder

anifinder — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 13:40:40 -0800

If you're streaming jazz, you won't notice the difference.

By: blacklite

blacklite — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 14:00:56 -0800

huh, that's really cool. some technical info (though not much.) Apparently all they do is prioritize the first parts of the file.

By: miss lynnster

miss lynnster — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 14:10:30 -0800

Ha ha! Wacky jazz humor! Cuz everybody knows all jazz is that kerrazy be-bop stuff those finger-snappin' beatnicks love, and they're so drugged-out they can't even tell the difference between the top and the bridge themselves! Ha ha! Sigh. *Goes back to singing along to Betty Carter/Ray Bryant CD*

By: CitrusFreak12

CitrusFreak12 — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 14:29:21 -0800

Careful now, miss.

By: aye

aye — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 14:38:10 -0800

or stream HDTV from Usenet with nzbplayer

By: smackfu

smackfu — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 14:40:36 -0800

a torrent feed gives you pieces of the data out of order, and all over the place. You just need to lie a little to get the pieces in order. You say the only piece you need is the next one, and the people seeding that piece will give it to you. This is actually how super-seeding works. In that case, you do have the whole thing already, but you tell people you only have one piece at a time, so that you only need to send each piece out to one peer, which maximizes the upload speed to the cloud of peers as a whole.

By: delmoi

delmoi — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 15:08:54 -0800

I first read that as "bidet, stream audio directly from a toilet"

By: Jay Reimenschneider

Jay Reimenschneider — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 15:12:38 -0800

Please be warned: I clicked on that thing and TOOLBARS I don't even use on my browser window popped up out of nowhere. wtf-squared.wtf-squared.

By: sourwookie

sourwookie — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 15:39:12 -0800

Thanks, smackfu.

By: unSane

unSane — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 16:26:21 -0800

By: blacklite

blacklite — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 17:24:21 -0800

This is a cool idea so long as it forms a small part of BT traffic. However, as soon as it forms a substantial part of BT traffic it destroys the advantages of the entire protocol and turns it into FTP with a massive overhead. Not true. It takes much longer these days to listen to some music than it does to download it. All of that spare time you can be seeding. And, you know, FTP has no upload-to-other-FTP-user feature, last I checked. I think this is a great idea.

By: Auden

Auden — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 18:18:27 -0800

aye - that nzbplayer looks really cool... I'm going to try it out. Thanks

By: malaprohibita

malaprohibita — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 12:54:08 -0800

me too, delmoi.

By: willie11

willie11 — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 20:13:18 -0800

it might be the exceptionally slow internet connection I'm leeching off my neighbor here at my new house, but bitlet seems to lag and skip at an unacceptable level. It also doesn't automatically go to the next song on the album. With that said, this is a huge leap forward in file sharing... i'm psyched to see where this is going to go. Thanks for the post goodnewsfortheinsane. Aye, that program along will get me finally sign up for giganews. Once I get a proper internet connection first. And after I finish unpacking my desktop... stupid moving.