This project is deprecated for lack of interest.
TorrentTunes — A free, BitTorrent-based music streaming service.
TorrentTunes is an open-source, BitTorrent-based music service, like Rdio or Spotify, where you can stream any music, or share your own library of music with others.
Each individual song is tagged using MusicBrainz, and shared as a .torrent file using the client's built-in, LibTorrent-based BitTorrent client, on publicly available trackers.
TorrentTunes works on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux, and also has a web client at torrenttunes.tk.
Suggest features, new music, or post bugs here, or on the subreddit /r/torrenttunes.
Features include
- A complete music streaming application including Artist and album pages, playlists, and settings.
- Fully categorized songs based on IDv3 tags and song duration with MusicBrainz, with the Musicbrainz-tagger.
- A LibTorrent-based BitTorrent client.
- Song, album, and artist sharing via URLs: David Bowie - Diamond Dogs
- Playlist sharing via URLS: Sample playlist
Screenshots:
Installation
Requirements
- Java 8
- If behind a router, make sure bittorrent has enough open ports forwarded to your local IP address.
Download and double click the jar, located here
Torrenttunes will install, create system shortcuts for Windows, Mac, or Debian-based Linux distributions, and load up in a browser window.
Building from scratch
To build TorrentTunes, run the following commands:
git clone https://github.com/dessalines/torrenttunes-client
cd torrenttunes-client
chmod +x install.sh
# This script does a maven install, and java -jar command
./install.sh
Command line client
To download and run TorrentTunes from the command line(the output is written to log.out):
The -nobrowser flag prevents TorrentTunes from loading up in a browser window.
wget https://github.com/dessalines/torrenttunes-client/releases/download/0.7.9/torrenttunes-client.jar
nohup java -jar torrenttunes-client.jar -nobrowser &> log.out &
To scan your music directory:
curl localhost:4568/share_directory --data "/home/user-dir/Music/A Music Dir"
To stop the torrenttunes service:
curl -XPOST localhost:4568/power_off
Support
If you'd like to help fund me to keep developing TorrentTunes, you can donate here, or directly with bitcoin:
bitcoin:14zPZaTFT8ipbi77FHw1uUEyCbGspWCzFX
Bugs and feature requests
Have a bug or a feature request? If your issue isn't already listed, then open a new issue here.
Contributing
Start with getting familiar with the schema first, then create some issues and we can start working on them.
Feature requests / todos
- TODO