Monthly Archive for July, 2008

Snotr & Mininova updates

Published
by
Erik
on July 28, 2008
in Mininova-related news and Personal rants
. 31 Comments

Hi there,

Even though some of us are on holiday we are still working to improve our websites. Here are some features that we have just put live.

Updates for Snotr:

Timelinks
Snotr Timelink

It is now possible to link to a specific time within a movie using the simple minutes:seconds format.

Quotes
Snotr Quote

You can now quote other comments using the #number format.

Flash 9
The Snotr player has been rewritten to Flash 9 so we can support full screen (currently available through right clicking) and HD content.

Improved seeking
It is now possible to seek to a point in the file that isn’t loaded yet.
 

Updates for Mininova:

My Bookmarks
http://www.mininova.org/my/bookmarks is now sortable.

Torrents per tracker
You can now view all torrents from a specific tracker, for example: http://www.mininova.org/tracker/17188. Links to trackers can be found on the torrent details pages.

Improved searching
Searching using quotes (”") and excluding words (-) has now been improved.

On another note, Sphinx, used for Mininova search, is awarded for the SourceForge 2008 Community Choice Awards.

FTP Uploads
FTP Upload

Content Distribution users are now able to use FTP to upload their content. This way they can upload files bigger then 1GB.

Automatic Extracting
CD uploads using .zip or .rar archives are now automatically extracted.
 

As always, we would like to hear your suggestions and ideas for both sites. Please comment on this blog post to share your thoughts.

New feature: personal bookmarks, remote downloading

Published
by
Niek
on July 8, 2008
in Mininova technical and Mininova-related news
. 91 Comments

Hi there,

A quick update about a new and cool feature we just implemented: personal bookmarks! From now on, logged-in users can bookmark their favorite torrents.

Bookmark button on Mininova

After clicking the “Add to bookmarks” button, a torrent will be added to the list of bookmarked torrents available at “My bookmarks“. Bookmarking is convenient if you want to save a torrent so you can quickly find it back.

Another useful (and more powerful) scenario is remote downloading.

How does it work? In most BitTorrent clients (for example: uTorrent) you are able to poll an RSS feed. Go to the “My bookmarks” page we just described, and copy your “personal feed” URL. In uTorrent, click the “RSS Downloader” button and add the feed URL from your clipboard.

Adding a feed in uTorrent

Now, go to “Favorites”, add a new filter (the name doesn’t matter) and enter “*” as “Filter” and choose a download folder at “Save in”. You’re done, click “Close” to make :)

Adding a filter in uTorrent

Now, if you’re at work and see the latest album of your favorite featured artist, just hit the “Add to bookmarks” button. The torrent is added to your bookmarks and personal feed, and within a few minutes your BitTorrent client at home will refresh the feed and notice the new torrent. Your client will then start downloading the torrent in the background, so when you come home you can listen to the album right away. No need for WebUI’s, port forwarding, and exposing local computers in your home network.

Do you like this feature? Or would you like to see any changes? Please let us know in the comments. We might not answer all comments, but we surely read them!

Thanks!