ashughes
Thanks for the great suggestions. All of what you suggested is something I want to work on for this addon. I want the downloading UI to be far more integrated, as the Download node is. I don't think I would use the download node but perhaps have a Torrent Download node. Being able to both see and control certain information (peers, ratios, bandwidths) is something I want with this add-on eventually as well. In a nutshell, I want to make it as featured as the standard torrent clients out there.
My first priority is going to be getting some of the major bugs fixed. As soon as that is in place, I will work on getting a Mac and Windows version of this add-on up and running. Following that, I can start working on some of these features.
Thanks again for the feedback and your interest in my work.
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tdmurphy
I am glad to see that the ability to download torrents in Songbird is off to a good start (geekshadow recently ported FireTorrent over as well). I know they are in early stages, but I wanted to post some ideas that I hope will one day be possible with these torrent add-ons in Songbird. I think the ability to select which files/folders should be downloaded in the torrent is essential for downloading things like discographies. You must also be able to keep files seeding and to see the seed/leech ratio for sites like what.cd where seeding is especially important.
And I cannot test this right now because I'm running osx, but from the screenshot it appears that this add-on displays downloads in a browser tab. Would it be possible to make them appear in the "Downloads" item already found in the main sidebar, so it does not take up space in the tab bar? And finally, thank you for working on this.