MamiyaOtaru
May 29th, 2002, 10:08 PM
I have just put out AquaLime 250. It is beta, for reasons I'll explain below.
The biggest new feature is HUGE. This is a hashing implementation that will become the gnutella standard. With it, Bitzi.com will become the sharereactor of Gnutella. Also, AquaLime now has a browse host feature. Unfortunately, both of these features only work with other clients that have them. At first they will not make much difference for you, but as more people get their LimeWire clients up to date, it will become increasingly useful.
I have added the 'download any' button back in. LimeWire removed it because most people don't know what it does. I myself just barely found out, and it is cool. Hard to explain though. I'll try with an example. Say you search for a song. You get 5 different results, with slightly different filesizes. You want one, but don't care which, you just want one of them to finish.
Normally, I would start all of them, and once one finished, I'd cancel the others. Download Any takes care of it for you. You select all the files, hit Download Any, and it makes sure that you get one, and exactly one, of the files. It tries one, and if it fails tries the next. It cycles through until one finishes, then cancels the rest. Sweet.
Another 'feature' I've put it:
On the connections tab, I hate it how the connections you've had the longest scroll to the bottom. As connections come and go above them (causing the total number to go up and down) the stable ones on the bottom bounce rapidly up and down (mostly when your client is searching for new connections). I hate that, so I made it so they scroll the other way. Your stable connections are now on the top, and they don't move around anymore. Again, dunno if I can explain it well enough, but it really looks better to me.
Finally, I borrowed an idea from FreeWire (the horror). In FreeWire, when you start to download something, the star graphics in the search screen turn green, to show you it has started downloading. I like this idea, especially since AquaLime has the downloads on a seperate tab. This way, you can see right away that the download has started, without having to change to the transfers tab to make sure. Of course, I improved on their implementation. In FW, the stars don't immediately change color, it can take quite a while (it has to wait for something else to refresh the pane). in AL, they change immediately. And in AL, they are arrows instead. oooh ;)
LimeWire has not released 250 yet, but it is in the CVS. They have not released it due to a couple bugs. I have them fixed, so AquaLime 250 is out. (actually, I'm guessing at the number. Since this version of LW isn't out yet, who knows what the number will be. maybe 3.0 lol) I fixed all the major ones I could find, but there may be more. It's hard for me to test on a modem. Thus, this is a beta. But know that I am fairly sure it's stable. Please tell me if you get any weird messages.
Also, when you first start, it will take all your CPU as it hashes the files in your library (like eDonkey does) It will only do this the first time (or any time you add a huge number of new files at once) In search and the library, you can right click and do a bitzi search to see what info they have. If there is none yet, bitzi tells you how to submit it. Don't submit bad info to Bitzi please Luckily there is feedback, so if a file is fake, the comments from angry people who were duped will tip you off.
The biggest new feature is HUGE. This is a hashing implementation that will become the gnutella standard. With it, Bitzi.com will become the sharereactor of Gnutella. Also, AquaLime now has a browse host feature. Unfortunately, both of these features only work with other clients that have them. At first they will not make much difference for you, but as more people get their LimeWire clients up to date, it will become increasingly useful.
I have added the 'download any' button back in. LimeWire removed it because most people don't know what it does. I myself just barely found out, and it is cool. Hard to explain though. I'll try with an example. Say you search for a song. You get 5 different results, with slightly different filesizes. You want one, but don't care which, you just want one of them to finish.
Normally, I would start all of them, and once one finished, I'd cancel the others. Download Any takes care of it for you. You select all the files, hit Download Any, and it makes sure that you get one, and exactly one, of the files. It tries one, and if it fails tries the next. It cycles through until one finishes, then cancels the rest. Sweet.
Another 'feature' I've put it:
On the connections tab, I hate it how the connections you've had the longest scroll to the bottom. As connections come and go above them (causing the total number to go up and down) the stable ones on the bottom bounce rapidly up and down (mostly when your client is searching for new connections). I hate that, so I made it so they scroll the other way. Your stable connections are now on the top, and they don't move around anymore. Again, dunno if I can explain it well enough, but it really looks better to me.
Finally, I borrowed an idea from FreeWire (the horror). In FreeWire, when you start to download something, the star graphics in the search screen turn green, to show you it has started downloading. I like this idea, especially since AquaLime has the downloads on a seperate tab. This way, you can see right away that the download has started, without having to change to the transfers tab to make sure. Of course, I improved on their implementation. In FW, the stars don't immediately change color, it can take quite a while (it has to wait for something else to refresh the pane). in AL, they change immediately. And in AL, they are arrows instead. oooh ;)
LimeWire has not released 250 yet, but it is in the CVS. They have not released it due to a couple bugs. I have them fixed, so AquaLime 250 is out. (actually, I'm guessing at the number. Since this version of LW isn't out yet, who knows what the number will be. maybe 3.0 lol) I fixed all the major ones I could find, but there may be more. It's hard for me to test on a modem. Thus, this is a beta. But know that I am fairly sure it's stable. Please tell me if you get any weird messages.
Also, when you first start, it will take all your CPU as it hashes the files in your library (like eDonkey does) It will only do this the first time (or any time you add a huge number of new files at once) In search and the library, you can right click and do a bitzi search to see what info they have. If there is none yet, bitzi tells you how to submit it. Don't submit bad info to Bitzi please Luckily there is feedback, so if a file is fake, the comments from angry people who were duped will tip you off.