Bolt_Gundam510 Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 by ErnestoThe popular BitTorrent site Mininova just released a set of new features, including music torrent streaming. The new music streaming feature uses a Java applet developed by BitLet, which is easy to use and compatible with all Java-enabled browsers.With the new music streaming feature users can listen to individual music tracks, streamed from .torrent files. It is integrated in the featured torrents section, which lists all the distributors that take part in Mininova’s content distribution platform. An example of a streamable torrent is this track. If you want to stream music torrents that are not listed in the featured section, you’ll need to use the Bitlet website. The service currently supports mp3 and ogg/vorbis files. BitTorrent streaming is not restricted to music files, and indeed, Erik, one of the founders of Mininova told TorrentFreak that they are currently looking into the possibility of video streaming via BitTorrent as well. He said that Mininova will start a private BETA test of the BitTorrent video streaming integration in a few weeks.Together with the music streaming capability, Mininova published some other new features including comment tracking, which gives users an overview of all the comments they recently made. Another new feature that might come in handy is the manual refresh of the seeder and leecher statistics that logged in users now have.Finally, every self respecting BitTorrent sites now has its own toolbar. Isohunt and The Pirate Bay launched one a few weeks ago, so Mininova couldn’t stay behind. Personally I’m not a huge fan of these toobars, but some people seem to like it. The good news is, the toolbars are malware free, and generate some extra revenue via the integrated search box.It’s good to see that Mininova and other BitTorrent sites continue to add new features, and improve the service to their users.Source: Torrent Freak Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shought Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 Seems very nice, but isn't it possible for music not to be available, due to no people listening/hosting it at that moment? Or is there some server that always hosts the files? Don't they have something like Bittorrent video streaming already? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoKz Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 TPB was gonna host something... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shought Posted February 10, 2008 Share Posted February 10, 2008 TPB was gonna host something...Something like...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HATE9X Posted February 11, 2008 Share Posted February 11, 2008 So this is probably gonna slow down downloaders..? ffs.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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