Live Playlists

The concept of Live Playlists will add rich metadata to Bittorrent and enable RSS-like subscriptions in P2P. Live Playlists contain:

• Name of Live Playlist
• Thumbnail
• Description text
• Tags
• Quality of video
• Spoken language
• Subtitles in various languages

Live Playlists give every user the ability to clean up metadata and extend Bittorrent swarms with additional info. With a simple keyword search you can locate a Live Playlist. Every user can publish a Live Playlist and the Buddycast3 protocol is used to distribute this list. No server is needed for creating, spreading, and searching Live Playlists. We believe our initiative is the first attempt at Serverless user-generated metadata

Status and planning

Around the summer of 2008 the Tribler client will launch a Beta version of this feature. Currently one part of Live Playlists called ModerationCast is implemented in Python, there is technical documentation, and a simulator. More info.