Adam Curry confirms that the RSS+BitTorrent integration tool works as advertised. Thanks for the report, Adam! I’ve been running for a few days now and collecting various works from LegalTorrents. I’m listening to electronica from the Monotonik collection as I type this.
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I too confirm that it has worked, as advertised. And I am about to unzip some pretty weird sounding dance music from legalTorrent’s feed. Excellent. Bravo!
I am wondering, since this is the first time I have installed BT, how I could add files, (I guess, .torrents) to the enclosures field in Radio. Well, I know how to do that bit 🙂 But how does it work? I understand that a ‘very large file’ downloaded as a torrent comes from several people (so called seeders), and this is why it is possible to have torrents that are gigabytes big.
How would BT know about other people (seeders) who you could download my ‘very large file’ from? Is there some place to register as a seeder for these ‘very large files?’ What if the ‘very large file’ is of my creation, and not a common or garden DVD rip of ‘Lord of the Flies’ and thus, there are no other seeders?
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Seeders are tracked with a software program called (surprise!) a “tracker”. You might find the BitTorrent File Server’s Guide helpful: http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/guide.html.
Simon Carless, who runs the LegalTorrents site and whose blog lives at http://www.mono211.com/ffwd/, had some interesting practical advice in an email over the weekend: “if you can afford to run one high-speed BitTorrent seed per torrent at all times, then you will ALWAYS have fast downloads, because even when lots of people hit your site and that seed can’t keep up, the new people provide the extra bandwidth.”
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