I had similar idea a while ago to make a file sharing application that won't suck.
The plan was to expose via ftp + Avahi or some similar means all files and directories tagged as "shared" (or any other tag) in Tracker.
I see it was not a bad idea after all, if somebody else is doing exactly the same thing :)
April 26, 2008 at 11:08 AM
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Erm... Copyright? The causual user should have quite some copyrighted media files on the computer. With automatically sharing them you expose your users to the risk of copyright violations. What's your plain for avoiding accidential copyright violations?
Regarding copyright violation: Since I am only sharing the media that has been selected(tagged) to be shared, I think the user is responsible for any copyright violation caused by sharing of media through gupnp-media-server.
Next on my TODO is a desktop-wide UPnP MediaServer based on tracker. Basically, it will make all of your media availabe to other UPnP devices that is tagged as "shared via UPnP". I already have a working dummy implementation, based on code from Jorn's rhythmbox plugin. I call it "dummy" because ATM it only exports a hardcoded list of media files. Here is a screenshot of Windows Media Player playing music from it using on2share plugin:
"gupnp-media-server coming soon.."
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good stuff, tracker was always the obvious database to use for upnp in my view. nice to see you are implementing it
April 26, 2008 at 10:54 AM
So funny!
I had similar idea a while ago to make a file sharing application that won't suck.
The plan was to expose via ftp + Avahi or some similar means all files and directories tagged as "shared" (or any other tag) in Tracker.
I see it was not a bad idea after all, if somebody else is doing exactly the same thing :)
April 26, 2008 at 11:08 AM
Erm... Copyright? The causual user should have quite some copyrighted media files on the computer. With automatically sharing them you expose your users to the risk of copyright violations. What's your plain for avoiding accidential copyright violations?
April 26, 2008 at 11:30 AM
Regarding copyright violation: Since I am only sharing the media that has been selected(tagged) to be shared, I think the user is responsible for any copyright violation caused by sharing of media through gupnp-media-server.
April 26, 2008 at 11:48 AM
hmmm i look forward to seeing a nautilus plugin which enables people to add this tag by simply right clicking and then clicking share over upnp :D
April 26, 2008 at 12:28 PM
"hmmm i look forward to seeing a nautilus plugin which enables people to add this tag by simply right clicking and then clicking share over upnp :D"
heh! that is in fact the basic/first idea that I started with. :)
April 26, 2008 at 4:25 PM
Nice Blog Post !
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