aMule Forum
English => Feature requests => Topic started by: jpv950 on April 09, 2009, 03:46:12 PM
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It'd be really nice to have a shared file filter, implemented in preferences->directories, to exclude certain files by extension. Use case, among many others: user has video files and subtitles in the same folder but just wants to share the video.
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user has video files and subtitles in the same folder but just wants to share the video.
Why?
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user has video files and subtitles in the same folder but just wants to share the video.
Why?
Because subtitles generally take 10 seconds to download using google and many video players can already do it automatically. Or more precisely, because there is a limit to how many files one may share. It's better to hit that limit sharing other, more valuable kinds of files.
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"shared directory" called "shared" because user desire to share it's contents. Move files out of it and create links to those you want.
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"shared directory" called "shared" because user desire to share it's contents. Move files out of it and create links to those you want.
The thing is, I don't have directories I want to share, just files. For archiving it is useful to keep video and subtitles in the same folder (because then the subtitles are automatically loaded when I play a file) but not so for sharing. So if you imagine that the max limit is 200 shared files and my total shared count is 1000 files (500 videos and 500 subtitles), some files will be left out. So I might be sharing 100 videos and 100 subtitles when I could be sharing 200 videos instead. Which do you think is better?
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I think better is create directory with links to relevant files.
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I think better is create directory with links to relevant files.
Ok, fair enough, but instead of putting the burden on the user I think it's worth considering such a simple feature to improve the quality of the network.
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I doubt anybody except you would be using it, so it would hardly improve the quality of the network. :P
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jpv950: Could you create a proof-of-concept patch, please?
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What should that proove? Of course it can be done. Question is if it makes sense or not and that can be discussed without a patch.
Also we can't commit GUI changes at the moment anyway.
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What should it prove? - that feature requests accompanied by a patch a more likely to be implemented.
I'm not opposed to the functionality, but I wouldn't bother implementing it. If there's a good patch around, I would commit it. That's no guarantee that we implement for the requester, but at least he has a working implementation for himself in this case.
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I think it's worth considering such a simple feature
Well, implementation is not at all simple. eMule0.49c has the feature to allow individual files be shared or unshared regardless of their location (which means, you can share a file that's not in a shared directory or you can unshare a single file in a shared directory). This may be ported to aMule in the future.
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What should it prove? - that feature requests accompanied by a patch a more likely to be implemented.
I'm not opposed to the functionality, but I wouldn't bother implementing it. If there's a good patch around, I would commit it. That's no guarantee that we implement for the requester, but at least he has a working implementation for himself in this case.
Ok, I'll keep that in mind. I'm having to learn Java at school and the syllabus includes some C++. Maybe then I'll try to provide a patch.
I think it's worth considering such a simple feature
Well, implementation is not at all simple. eMule0.49c has the feature to allow individual files be shared or unshared regardless of their location (which means, you can share a file that's not in a shared directory or you can unshare a single file in a shared directory). This may be ported to aMule in the future.
I didn't know eMule had this feature. That would be even better because it would provide more fine grained control over shared files but yeah, not as simple to implement as a filter and harder to get right in terms of usability.
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What should it prove? - that feature requests accompanied by a patch a more likely to be implemented.
Well, I have seen such requests turned down anyway and didn't want him to dig right in without general acceptance.
eMule0.49c has the feature to allow individual files be shared or unshared regardless of their location
I'd prefer this approach too.