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Aurous: BitTorrent-Powered Music Player

26 points by MrJagil 11y ago

butz 11y ago
122MB music player? It better come with some music already packed in.
- andrewmd5 11y ago
  Honestly if it wasn't for the fact I use chromium, it be a 25mb app, Spotify has me beat by 400mb though.
unicornporn 11y ago
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."
- andrewmd5 11y ago
  I will do away with the installer and just make it a tarball for now until we can build a dmg
  - unicornporn 11y ago
    Thanks! Is it correct that JDK from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/inde... should be needed for running it?
parennoob 11y ago
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.
- robinhoodexe 11y ago
  Agreed. It looks pretty good, but is it like popcorn time, but for music? The title raises more questions than it answers.
- snx 11y ago
  I disagree. The only thing that's missing is an additional section: "Is it legal?"
MrJagil 11y ago
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/ http://blog.andrew.im/ [1]https://torrentfreak.com/strike-public-tracker-dht-searches-presented-cleanly-150321/ https://torrentfreak.com/strike-public-tracker-dht-searches-...
screaminghawk 11y ago
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#130222998673 http://blog.aurous.me/post/130222998673/how-we-used-p2p#1302...
victorbojica 11y ago
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 !
- grrowl 11y ago
  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.
icc97 11y ago
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.
webaholic 11y ago
"make sure you run Aurous as sudo" Tell me you were kidding, please.

26 points by MrJagil 11y ago

butz 11y ago

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

andrewmd5 11y ago
Honestly if it wasn't for the fact I use chromium, it be a 25mb app, Spotify has me beat by 400mb though.

unicornporn 11y ago

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."

andrewmd5 11y ago
I will do away with the installer and just make it a tarball for now until we can build a dmg
- unicornporn 11y ago
  Thanks! Is it correct that JDK from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/inde... should be needed for running it?

parennoob 11y ago

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.

robinhoodexe 11y ago
Agreed. It looks pretty good, but is it like popcorn time, but for music? The title raises more questions than it answers.
snx 11y ago
I disagree. The only thing that's missing is an additional section: "Is it legal?"

MrJagil 11y ago

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/ http://blog.andrew.im/ [1]https://torrentfreak.com/strike-public-tracker-dht-searches-presented-cleanly-150321/ https://torrentfreak.com/strike-public-tracker-dht-searches-...

screaminghawk 11y ago

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

victorbojica 11y ago

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 !

grrowl 11y ago
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.

icc97 11y ago

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.

webaholic 11y ago

"make sure you run Aurous as sudo" Tell me you were kidding, please.