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* The Glorious what.cd¹ Resolver
¹: At the time of writing, what.cd didn’t even exist anymore
** Idea
Stream your music (or media) from a private tracker transparently.
“Spotify for torrents”
** Technical
You need to have a seedbox, which runs a server program.
The server manages queries, downloads torrents and requested files, and
provides http streams to the downloaded files (while caching them for
seeding).
Clients then use the API to search for music (e.g. query for artists or
tracks) and get back the promise of a stream to the resolved file (a bit how
resolvers in the Tomahawk Player work)
*** The Server
**** Resolving queries
~resolve :: Query -> IO Identifiers~
A query is a search input for content (could be an artist or a movie name
or something)
There have to be multiple providers, depending on the site used
(e.g. one for Gazelle trackers, one for Piratebay) and some intermediate
structure (e.g. for going through Musicbrainz first).
Output is a unique identifier for a fetchable resource; this could be a
link to a torrent combined with a file/directory in said torrent.
**** Fetching Identifiers
~fetch :: Identifier -> IO (Promise Stream)~
Takes an Identifier (which should provide all information on how to grab
the media file and returns a stream to the media file once it’s ready.
For torrents, this probably consists of telling the torrent
library/application to fetch a certain torrent and start downloading the
required files in it. The torrent fetcher would also need to do seeding and
space management, since one usually has to keep a ratio and hard drive
space is not unlimited.
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