Who’s Anna? What is this about?
Anna’s archive, known for “open-sourced” books. They scraped spotify recently.
I would recommend against a new player when existing scriptable ones like
vlcandmpvalready exist.Instead what I would do is a plugin for either, eventually repackaged as its own player (if somehow installing the script itself is too much for some) for which the script would
- include a very small torrent client
- point that client to the torrent (which AFAICT is still not public, so for now a reconfigurable URL)
- include a search function that when it fails, proposes to search within the trimmed cleaned torrent metadata then does the torrent download then plays.
What features would people expect/want such software to have?
- Search
- Play
- Edit and save playlists
Those are the main ones. Sharing playlists would be nice but not necessary for a minimum viable product. I like the architecture @utopiah@lemmy.ml proposed too.
they haven’t released any of the files yet, just metadata
? Download and play the file, no?
Yeah, it’s an odd question. Spotify is that frontend.
If they mean for local playback, then yeah, that’s just any media player.
If they mean something hosted somewhere, then good luck getting funding for hosting costs, and lawyers for the barrage of C&D’s.
Aah, the streaming generation.
I assumed that they meant a streaming torrent client with some sort of search within that torrent’s file listing.
it’s 300TB
It’s one file?
it’s in big batches
Are you looking for something like Lidarr?
