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General => MusicBee Wishlist => Topic started by: gigel on July 27, 2011, 10:17:00 AM

Title: switch from mediafire to a better content distribution system
Post by: gigel on July 27, 2011, 10:17:00 AM
...like a dedicated torrent tracker (i presume setting up a ftp server like any serious software repository cost you bandwidth...)
usually the file uploading sites are assiciated with pirated software
Title: Re: switch from mediafire to a better content distribution system
Post by: boroda on July 27, 2011, 11:19:34 AM
Quote from: gigel on July 27, 2011, 10:17:00 AM
usually the file uploading sites are assiciated with pirated software
Yes. Like torrent trackers.
Title: Re: switch from mediafire to a better content distribution system
Post by: ma_t14 on July 27, 2011, 11:21:38 AM
Quote from: boroda74 on July 27, 2011, 11:19:34 AM
Quote from: gigel on July 27, 2011, 10:17:00 AM
usually the file uploading sites are assiciated with pirated software
Yes. Like torrent trackers.

Was about to write the same thing. Any advantages of using a torrent tracker?
Title: Re: switch from mediafire to a better content distribution system
Post by: Elberet on July 27, 2011, 01:34:13 PM
Eh, and Bittorrent isn't "associated with pirated software"?
If you can host a dedicated tracker and a reliable seed, you might as well just run a webserver instead and put the files on there, anyways.
Also, having to download MusicBee via Bittorrent would deter lots of users from trying out MB in the first place. Not everyone knows how to use Bittorrent, and a sizeable fraction of users are notoriously lazy.
Title: Re: switch from mediafire to a better content distribution system
Post by: boroda on July 27, 2011, 09:36:11 PM
Using of torrent trackers may be useful for distributing very large soft (~1GB and more). Don't see any sense to implement this for MB which is really lightweight.