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Show HN: Rivulet – a music player for torrents

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Question: Will I be seeding if I use Rivulet? Where I live, I believe that I can download but not seed.

At this time you do seed, I'll be pushing a fix to allow disabling of seeding later today.

Really neat project. One suggestion: Put bitrate and filesize information in search results so that the user can make a decision based on the quality of the file.

This might be tangental, but why isn't there an ISBN equivalent for other media (e.g. movies, music)?

It would make distributed streaming services like this much more powerful, but would also allow copyright holders to have more control over their content.

There are. For sound recordings, there is the International Standard Recording Code (ISRC). For the musical work (of which there may be many recordings) there is an International Standard Musical Work Code (ISWC). For an entire album, at least in CD format, there is a Media Catalog Number (MCN). (CDs also typically contain an ISRC for each track.) Albums often have a label catalog number as well.

There are also community identifiers, such as MusicBrainz IDs.

Not sure what there is for movies, however.

Hey! LimeWire is back lol.

Is playing music in the demo intentionally disabled?

It takes a while for a torrent to be downloaded and become available to play. As soon as the first piece is available, it should become playable.

Actually... you are right, it's broken right now. I'm trying to fix it...

Fixed.

"(run by an entity not affiliated with rivulet.audio)" So it is after all ;-)

Shouldn't you mention that you could get sued for using this service? A lot of people did not know how PopcornTime worked, used it and get sued because of that...

Yeah, listening to unlicensed music on Grooveshark or Youtube doesn't put the user at risk but if it makes you part of the swarm, you're technically participating in the unlicensed distribution and can be sued/fined.

I never used popcorn time (don't watch enough movies/netflix for those I do) but do you have examples of "a lot of people getting sued"? I read a lot of media coverage on PCT but never saw those stories.

AFAIK, nobody did. PCT shut down before anyone could mount a case, but made the code available.

It's actually a pretty strategic way to demo a technology that would get shut down in civil court.

so this is popcorntime for music?

That's the idea! :)

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