bittorrent support

[Bart Cerneels]

On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 17:17, Mathias Panzenböck
<grosser.meister.morti at gmx.net> wrote:
> I thought about how one can integrate bittorrent feed support into amarok. Hard coding that
> .bittorrent extensions shall be opened with ktorrent is no option. Blindly executing the associated
> KDE applications to unknown file types is also unhandy.
>
> Maybe there should be some kind of script hook for podcasts, so that when a file was downloaded this
> script is called with the file name as argument, which then decides what to do with it, if anything.
> Then one can write a script that calls ktorrent (e.g. via dbus) and commands it to download the file
> (to the appropriate directory, if one can tell that to ktorrent via dbus). Also other scripts can be
> written, e.g. one for arureus/vuze or just to start the associated KDE application.
>
> Maybe make this script hook not just for new podcasts but for whenever the collection manager finds
> a new file (which don't need to be of a supported file type in order to get passed to the script)?
>
> Maybe one of:
> Amarok.Podcasts.unknownFiletype.connect(function(filename, mimetype) { });
> Amarok.Podcasts.newFile.connect(function(filename, mimetype) { });
> Amarok.Podcasts.newFileCallback('application/x-bittorrent', function(filename, mimetype) { });
> Amarok.Collection.unknownFiletype.connect(function(filename, mimetype) { });
> Amarok.Collection.newFile.connect(function(filename, mimetype) { });
> Amarok.Collection.newFileCallback('application/x-bittorrent', function(filename, mimetype) { });
>
> What do you think? Good idea? Bad idea? Is there a better idea for bittorrent integration? Or is
> bittorrent integration maybe not wanted in amarok?
>
>        -panzi

Really, how many podcasts use bittorrent enclosures exclusively? Can
you give me 10 examples of podcast feeds that contain neither an audio
nor a video file and don't have an alternative feed?

I think this is pretty useless feature creep.

Bart