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Re: Torrents for media content?

Mangix — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:00:28 GMT

has anyone considered web seeding? would be a nice solution to cut down bandwidth imo.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_(protocol)#Web_seeding

Re: Torrents for media content?

HeroicLife — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 04:45:08 GMT

Err, I am still having issues. I need a bittorent pro to help me out.

Re: Torrents for media content?

HeroicLife — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:38:59 GMT

I moved to a new server and recreated the torrents. Please try downloading the torrents at http://mises.org/services/torrents/ - they should be pretty fast now.

Re: Torrents for media content?

Shed — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 22:31:15 GMT

Has the torrent server changed recently, possibly outsourced to theplanet.com? It is so much slower :( .

Re: Torrents for media content?

Shed — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:38:25 GMT

freedom_observer,

Good idea, thanks! Using your list, I've split my collection into One Book Only and Multiple Books :) .

Re: Torrents for media content?

freedom_observer — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 10:35:28 GMT

***Breaking news*** :-)

I did finally decide just to write a parser script to process the web pages myself, so now the parsing problem is solved.

The compressed archives are uploaded, and can be found here: http://liberalismi.net/books/

Currently the site has only authors who had two or more books. You can send any comments etc here.

Re: Torrents for media content?

Conza88 — Thu, 28 May 2009 04:10:58 GMT

Bump.

Re: Torrents for media content?

Shed — Wed, 13 May 2009 12:02:46 GMT

It took me ages to sort all the books! It would be nice for other users if they were organised.

Re: Torrents for media content?

freedom_observer — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:22:56 GMT

HeroicLife:

I've shared the entire Mises.org database and the CSV of Mises Media and documents: MisesMedia.csv

Thank you for responding. The packaging/mirroring of pdf books in a more user-friendly way was my primary idea, but I am open to other suggestions too.

I took a glance at the CSV file and it seems to be comma-separated, with some problems. Some of the titles have commas in them, so this breaks up the comma-separated structure. In some partsin the file, there are snippets of HTML code with line breaks, again breaking the structure (wonder why?)

It is quite difficult to parse the file with these flaws. Is it possible to fix them? I suggest making the file tab-separated, so commas in the columns won't matter. Another question is will this file be automatically updated, say, daily? I'd think making such a cron job would be fairly trivial.

Re: Torrents for media content?

HeroicLife — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 06:30:59 GMT

freedom_observer:
I am asking whether it is possible to pull out a CSV file from the database listing these columns: - author name - author id - book's full name - source (Online Books etc.) - url to pdf - last modified time Preferably the file should be periodicadilly updated and posted to a specified url.

I've shared the entire Mises.org database and the CSV of Mises Media and documents: MisesMedia.csv

Re: Torrents for media content?

Shed — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:24:11 GMT

Ok :) .

Re: Torrents for media content?

HeroicLife — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:15:56 GMT

Shed:
I'm downloading the Multimedia and Books torrents very happily, but I want to ask whether there will be any kind of public announcement or more attention drawn to the bittorrent service?

Yes, it's just waiting for me to get around to writing it.

Re: Torrents for media content?

Shed — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:26:09 GMT

I'm downloading the Multimedia and Books torrents very happily, but I want to ask whether there will be any kind of public announcement or more attention drawn to the bittorrent service?

Re: Torrents for media content?

freedom_observer — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 23:24:34 GMT

Uh oh, for some reason all the line breaks disappeared from the post. Well, anyway, everyone should understand it.

Re: Torrents for media content?

freedom_observer — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 23:21:52 GMT

Hello, I had to register here after I saw the blog post 'Mises.org is going open source - volunteers wanted'. I have a LAMP web server with a 250GB/mo transfer quota, much of which is unused. I could help in mirroring some of the media content, namely, the pdf books. One big problem with the torrent (http://mises.org/services/torrents/books.torrent) is that all the files have short, cryptic names of which one can't know which file is which book. I think I could bundle one author's books in one zip file and share it via the web server, to make mass downloading more sensible. To avoid the need of crawling and parsing http://mises.org/literature.aspx manually, I am asking whether it is possible to pull out a CSV file from the database listing these columns: - author name - author id - book's full name - source (Online Books etc.) - url to pdf - last modified time Preferably the file should be periodicadilly updated and posted to a specified url. And no, the RSS feed doesn't seem to provide all the details.