Web Based Mulve Prototype

[costi]

great

i am improving the scripts and waiting for the vps...


cheers,
costi

EDIT:
fetchsong.com is currently not working.

[costi]

ok, everything is set up on my vps.

http://fetchsong.com/

i still dont really like the design, but anyway it finds almost everything with good download speeds.
with the time i will implement a web player, show file sizes and bitrates, have a google-like search suggestions, infos about the artists and some other things.
and sooner or later i will have to limit the download rate

if you want, you can write the article....
you could tell that it works exactly like mulve but without any software.

[anon]

I like the design myself. It may not be "wow, look at that", but it's easy in my eyes and doesn't make the page hard to use.

As for the article, as I told you, I'm not very good at this, but here's a draft.

A lot of you must have probably heard about Mulve, a new piece of software that's already gaining popularity (and some controversy) due to its ability to download single music tracks at very high speeds from VKontakte.ru's server pool, without requiring users to upload anything else than an HTTP request.

Recently, costi, an FST (FileSharing Talk) user, has designed a Web application that enables people to get those music tracks without running the aforementioned software. All that's needed is going to FetchSong.com, typing the track's name, and clicking on "Search". Thanks to AJAX, the result list will immediately appear below the search field. Clicking any of them initiates the download.

It is noteworthy that the Mulve servers only allow downloading from the same IP address that initiated the search request, so proxying both through a VPS (Virtual Private Server) proved itself essential for FetchSong to work. However, that also provides some degree of anonymity as a side effect, since your real IP won't be seen by VKontakte.

You may access this service here:
http://fetchsong.com/

[costi]

thank you that is great!

i would just change

However, that also provides some degree of anonymity as a side effect, since your real IP won't be seen by VKontakte.

to something like

However, that also provides some degree of anonymity as a side effect, since your real IP won't be seen by VKontakte and FetchSong.com does not keep any logs.

can you submit it?

thank you again!

Cheers,
Costi

[anon]

Sure, will change that and submit it now.

[costi]

lookg great!

unfortanly vkontakt blacklisted the ip of my server )-:
that was a lot faster that i thougt it would be.
but i tam already working on a fix:
i`ll use tor as a proxy.

sorry for the down time

[anon]

but i tam already working on a fix:
i`ll use tor as a proxy.

As a proxy to transfer the tracks? I wouldn't advice that.

[costi]

why not?

i know its really not elegant but the only solution i can find.
(i`ll also set up a tor relay on the vps to "give back" the bandwidth)

[anon]

why not?

Tor was meant for people whose Internet connections are surveilled or censored to break free of those restraints and enjoy free surfing/posting/chatting, not for the transfer of (proportionally) huge music tracks.

Also, it's very easy to detect if an specific IP is a Tor exit node or not, so VKontakte could quickly and easily render your service unusable once again if they wanted to.

[costi]

ok, its working again - using tor, its slower but still ok.

yeah, i guess it will be a neverending rearmament.
and tor is the solution for right now.

no worries, i have unlimited traffic on the vps and will set up a tor relay.
there are people how just use p2p via tor...

how can they now its a tor node?
they wont scan every ip connected for tor services?
or is there any list with all tor nodes?

the usabillity and response time will be improved in the future...
sometimes you get a error when you make a search, tor changes the exit node, you try to download a song. if this happens make the same search again. but i am fixing it...