Re: [Librefm-discuss] Libre.fm as the central place for obtaining free music

[Ted Smith]

Part of the magic of libre.fm is that all of the music can be freely
shared without the need for "buy-ins" or legal consultation or
"belongs-to" or so forth. Anything that you can stream from libre.fm you
should be able to torrent from libre.fm. The only obstacle should be
infrastructure.

Am I incorrect?

On Sun, 2010-02-28 at 00:49 +0000, Jon Spriggs wrote:
> Hi Matija,
> 
> This idea is a really good one, and I'd love to see this working. Like
> your description of yourself, I'm not much of a coder (well, at
> anything beyond simple
> pull-stuff-from-a-database-then-make-it-look-pretty), but I can see
> the merits behind it. Because the music doesn't actually belong to
> libre.fm, I suspect this is why there may be issues with putting the
> download links straight into the API, however, if we could get buy-in
> from labels such as Jamendo, then I guess the first thing to do is to
> break this into parts.
> 
> 1) Add an extension to the API which provides an index of torrent and
> magnet links. This is non-intrusive - it doesn't affect the current
> API at all, and is purely an additional function we can call.
> 
> This part is programatic, and should contain no politics
> 
> 2) Ask Jamendo (for example) to make their bittorrent indexes
> available to libre.fm - add this data to the existing GNUkebox store
> of data about these tracks and albums
> 
> This would require buy-in from Jamendo and the Libre.fm project to
> confirm whether they want to progress down this path.
> 
> 3) Amend existing clients to add this functionality (that is, query
> the API for bittorrent/magent links; add a button to the client
> reflecting this status; on-click, trigger the launch of the bittorrent
> client of choice using the link supplied by the API). It should be
> noted that this is in-line with StatusNet's reuse of the twitter API,
> adding extensions to it reflecting the support provided by the
> extended functions of the StatusNet codebase which has had very little
> (if no?) detriment to the support for twitter applications. If
> Libre.FM clients can be upgraded to permit the integration of several
> different bittorrent downloaders, then this can only be positive! :)
> 
> Hope this helps some other people on the project

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