Bitlet: stream torrent music
February 9, 2008 1:30 PM Subscribe
If you're streaming jazz, you won't notice the difference.
posted by anifinder at 1:40 PM on February 9, 2008 [13 favorites]
posted by anifinder at 1:40 PM on February 9, 2008 [13 favorites]
huh, that's really cool. some technical info (though not much.) Apparently all they do is prioritize the first parts of the file.
posted by blacklite at 2:00 PM on February 9, 2008
posted by blacklite at 2:00 PM on February 9, 2008
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*
posted by miss lynnster at 2:10 PM on February 9, 2008 [2 favorites]
Sigh.
*Goes back to singing along to Betty Carter/Ray Bryant CD*
posted by miss lynnster at 2:10 PM on February 9, 2008 [2 favorites]
Careful now, miss.
posted by CitrusFreak12 at 2:29 PM on February 9, 2008
posted by CitrusFreak12 at 2:29 PM on February 9, 2008
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.
posted by smackfu at 2:40 PM on February 9, 2008 [1 favorite]
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.
posted by smackfu at 2:40 PM on February 9, 2008 [1 favorite]
I first read that as "bidet, stream audio directly from a toilet"
posted by delmoi at 3:08 PM on February 9, 2008 [1 favorite]
posted by delmoi at 3:08 PM on February 9, 2008 [1 favorite]
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.
posted by Jay Reimenschneider at 3:12 PM on February 9, 2008
Thanks, smackfu.
posted by sourwookie at 3:39 PM on February 9, 2008
posted by sourwookie at 3:39 PM on February 9, 2008
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.
Just sayin'.
posted by unSane at 4:26 PM on February 9, 2008
Just sayin'.
posted by unSane at 4:26 PM on February 9, 2008
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.
posted by blacklite at 5:24 PM on February 9, 2008
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.
posted by blacklite at 5:24 PM on February 9, 2008
aye - that nzbplayer looks really cool... I'm going to try it out. Thanks
posted by Auden at 6:18 PM on February 9, 2008
posted by Auden at 6:18 PM on February 9, 2008
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.
posted by willie11 at 8:13 PM on February 10, 2008
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.
posted by willie11 at 8:13 PM on February 10, 2008
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