The Dasein Software Partnership presents: Messiah
Messiah is a new way to share music online.
- real anonymity. Because Messiah is built on Freenet your identity is protected.
- quality control. Messiah incorporates quality ratings for all files and uses your ratings to find the highest quality files available.
- search for songs, not files. Messiah presents search results in terms of artists, albums, and songs, rather than files that happened to match your search terms.
- proactive agent. once you've told Messiah what songs you want to download, it works constantly on your behalf to find the best quality versions of those songs and download them for you, even if you're asleep or on vacation.
Messiah is built in pure python, is cross-platform and licensed under the GPL. Pre-built binaries are available for Win32.
Messiah uses a simple distributed trust system for quality control. Details...
Messiah is currently in alpha release. Download Now.
What works:
- distributed trust module is fully functional
- wxPython-based GUI and interactive command-line ínterface
- automatically identifies MP3 files in Freedb
- ID3 tag reading via eyeD3
- automatically inserts songs into freenet
- supports searching
- proactive agent
What's in-progress:
- native cocoa GUI for MacOS X
- debugging interactions with Freenet
- improved searching of Freedb
- more GUI features
- more robust ID3 tag reading
- non-MP3 file formats
Release History:
- 2004-03-20: Released messiah1.0-alpha1