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Aurous: BitTorrent-Powered Music Player

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26 pointsMrJagil14 comments

I wish these next-gen website designs didn't have to completely sacrifice actual information.

What does the "BitTorrent-powered" tagline mean? Does your app stream music? Does it allow local collections to be streamed elsewhere? Is it just another player that aggregates and plays static files? Can it record radio?

Some real information about your app would really be useful.

Agreed. It looks pretty good, but is it like popcorn time, but for music? The title raises more questions than it answers.

I disagree. The only thing that's missing is an additional section: "Is it legal?"

So what's actually torrented? From the blog[0] it looks like only some API data is torrented.

[0] - http://blog.aurous.me/post/130222998673/how-we-used-p2p#1302...

It looks lovely, installed and worked pretty well at importing my 16GB local library. It does seem like it's a very alpha stage though. I've come across about 10 UI bugs, none of them fatal though. The most powerful bit of it - the torrent search worked well. A search for a fairly unknown song 'White Keys Chilly Gonzales' returned one link that played the song I expected in its entirety. 'White Keys' brings back a list of 'Another Way To Die' by Jack White and Alicia Keys which seems a reasonably expected result.

I really like the app as a whole. I know it's an alpha, but it's sluggish as hell. Also i've peeked through the frontend repo and i've seen them using jQuery; would't it be better going vanilla? ( or maybe using coffe for speeding up the whole process?) I genuinely like the feel. Waiting for more !

If they control the browser chrome (UIWebView, Chromium, or whatever)— YES. jQuery is mostly for cross-compatibility these days, if you're on an evergreen platform there are many simpler and more performant libraries, or just write plain Javascript.

From the screenshots, it looks like a lovely music player. I've been searching for one for quite some time for OS X. I sincerely hate iTunes and Songbird is goners. Vox went bad after a gigantic UI overhaul. Right now I'm using a two year old nightly of Cog because it's the closest I get to an OK player.

However... I can't start Aurous. I get: "The application "aurous-0.1.1-osx-installer.app" can't be opened."

I will do away with the installer and just make it a tarball for now until we can build a dmg

Thanks! Is it correct that JDK from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/inde... should be needed for running it?

Andrew Sampson[0] is also the creator of one of the more exciting torrent sites right now, from a tech/design standpoint.[1]

[0]http://blog.andrew.im/ [1]https://torrentfreak.com/strike-public-tracker-dht-searches-...

122MB music player? It better come with some music already packed in.

Honestly if it wasn't for the fact I use chromium, it be a 25mb app, Spotify has me beat by 400mb though.

"make sure you run Aurous as sudo"

Tell me you were kidding, please.

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