Bitmagnet Allows People to Run Their Own Decentralized Torrent Indexer Locally
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Re: Bitmagnet Allows People to Run Their Own Decentralized Torrent Indexer Locally
#2Interesting.
I want to seamlessly distribute my music through bittorrent, but since I have a small fan base (and thus, a very small potential seeding pool), I found it difficult to connect all the moving parts.
I'll give Bitmagnet a try for an Indexer.
I did find that IPFS, with a pinning service (I won't shill the one I used in particular), was a bit easier and just worked for everyone who tried to use it.
But I'd like to get my bittorrent presence up to the "just works" level also.
Re: Bitmagnet Allows People to Run Their Own Decentralized Torrent Indexer Locally
#3Interesting. I want to seamlessly distribute my music through bittorrent, but since I have a small fan base (and thus, a very small potential seeding pool), I found it difficult to connect all the moving parts. I'll give Bitmagnet a try for an Indexer. I did find that IPFS, with a pinning service (I won't shill the one I used in particular), was a bit easier and just worked for everyone who tried to use it. But I'd l…
Have you considered setting up a web seed?
https://www.ubuntubuzz.com/2021/06/how-to-add-web-seeds-to-t...
Re: Bitmagnet Allows People to Run Their Own Decentralized Torrent Indexer Locally
#4Interesting. I want to seamlessly distribute my music through bittorrent, but since I have a small fan base (and thus, a very small potential seeding pool), I found it difficult to connect all the moving parts. I'll give Bitmagnet a try for an Indexer. I did find that IPFS, with a pinning service (I won't shill the one I used in particular), was a bit easier and just worked for everyone who tried to use it. But I'd l…
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Re: Bitmagnet Allows People to Run Their Own Decentralized Torrent Indexer Locally
#5Interesting. I want to seamlessly distribute my music through bittorrent, but since I have a small fan base (and thus, a very small potential seeding pool), I found it difficult to connect all the moving parts. I'll give Bitmagnet a try for an Indexer. I did find that IPFS, with a pinning service (I won't shill the one I used in particular), was a bit easier and just worked for everyone who tried to use it. But I'd l…
Well for your use case of distributing your own music, Bitmagnet wouldn't be necessary.
What a DHT crawler like Bitmagnet does is the following:
1. Take a few initial "bootstrap" torrents and ping them to see which IP addresses are seeding that file 2. Ping those IP addresses and ask what other files/torrents they're seeding 3. Ping those torrents to see which IP addresses are seeding that torrent
Rinse repeat.
So to distribute your music to fans, you'd just want to put magnet links to your music on your site.
Re: Bitmagnet Allows People to Run Their Own Decentralized Torrent Indexer Locally
#6Interesting. I want to seamlessly distribute my music through bittorrent, but since I have a small fan base (and thus, a very small potential seeding pool), I found it difficult to connect all the moving parts. I'll give Bitmagnet a try for an Indexer. I did find that IPFS, with a pinning service (I won't shill the one I used in particular), was a bit easier and just worked for everyone who tried to use it. But I'd l…
Won't you run into the problem that you will have to generate torrents every time you update your music collection ?
Re: Bitmagnet Allows People to Run Their Own Decentralized Torrent Indexer Locally
#7Another alternative is https://github.com/the8472/mldht which, contrary to magnetico, strives to be a nice citizen (its author is active in the bittorrent community AFAIU)
Re: Bitmagnet Allows People to Run Their Own Decentralized Torrent Indexer Locally
#8Interesting. I want to seamlessly distribute my music through bittorrent, but since I have a small fan base (and thus, a very small potential seeding pool), I found it difficult to connect all the moving parts. I'll give Bitmagnet a try for an Indexer. I did find that IPFS, with a pinning service (I won't shill the one I used in particular), was a bit easier and just worked for everyone who tried to use it. But I'd l…
You don't need an indexer for that. All you need is a static list with all your music, and people can click on links to download your music. Give them qbittorrent and it'll be running smoothly.
Re: Bitmagnet Allows People to Run Their Own Decentralized Torrent Indexer Locally
#9Interesting. I want to seamlessly distribute my music through bittorrent, but since I have a small fan base (and thus, a very small potential seeding pool), I found it difficult to connect all the moving parts. I'll give Bitmagnet a try for an Indexer. I did find that IPFS, with a pinning service (I won't shill the one I used in particular), was a bit easier and just worked for everyone who tried to use it. But I'd l…
> I want to seamlessly distribute my music through bittorrent, but since I have a small fan base (and thus, a very small potential seeding pool), I found it difficult to connect all the moving parts.
Out of curiosity, why not just distribute via R2 or similar, or archive.org if you don't need AuthN/AuthZ? What's the complexity (to you and listeners) of BitTorrent buy you?
Re: Bitmagnet Allows People to Run Their Own Decentralized Torrent Indexer Locally
#10Another alternative is https://github.com/the8472/mldht which, contrary to magnetico, strives to be a nice citizen (its author is active in the bittorrent community AFAIU)
I have worked with the8472 to get Bitmagnet's BEP5 & BEP51 implementations working and ensure it's a good citizen on the network - there is more to be done and more protocols to be implemented, but unlike Magnetico, BM is not simply scraping without responding to incoming requests.