selperfuge
December 19th, 2002, 09:02 PM
it has occurred to me what with all these external programs like MXtool and the abysmal MXlinx, my dream app (or internal function) for WinMX might be possible..
I get alot of de facto music recommendations by browsing folders of people DLing from me. While this is pretty useful, I'm not always around to see who's there. But even just this is a big step for peer to peer. Can't remember if Napster ever had that function.
Anyway, my dream app would be a program that reads every file in my shared folder in an Artist - Track Title format. At regular intervals it has WinMX search for each song I share and rather than DL any files it browses each user who is sharing said file and saves browse results to a text or database file. Maybe it would also grab browse folders of people downloading from me. As an ongoing process, that central record will get pretty big and certain files will trend their way to the top in popularity.
Lets say you've got lots of Sonic Youth and Stereolab songs in your folder. Over a period of days or weeks this app discovers that people who share both Sonic Youth and Stereolab often share songs by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Not knowing anything about this band you go DL a few tunes and see if you like 'em.
I realize this technology has been developed before, they even use something like it on Amazon. There was a terrible company five years ago named Firefly that patented something similar, but it always gave horrible recs. While this app might not be foolproof, I think with 1000-2000 files shared you would get some interesting results and even more incentive to not be a leech. So, any programmers out there?
I get alot of de facto music recommendations by browsing folders of people DLing from me. While this is pretty useful, I'm not always around to see who's there. But even just this is a big step for peer to peer. Can't remember if Napster ever had that function.
Anyway, my dream app would be a program that reads every file in my shared folder in an Artist - Track Title format. At regular intervals it has WinMX search for each song I share and rather than DL any files it browses each user who is sharing said file and saves browse results to a text or database file. Maybe it would also grab browse folders of people downloading from me. As an ongoing process, that central record will get pretty big and certain files will trend their way to the top in popularity.
Lets say you've got lots of Sonic Youth and Stereolab songs in your folder. Over a period of days or weeks this app discovers that people who share both Sonic Youth and Stereolab often share songs by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Not knowing anything about this band you go DL a few tunes and see if you like 'em.
I realize this technology has been developed before, they even use something like it on Amazon. There was a terrible company five years ago named Firefly that patented something similar, but it always gave horrible recs. While this app might not be foolproof, I think with 1000-2000 files shared you would get some interesting results and even more incentive to not be a leech. So, any programmers out there?