Just wondering when the plans to include meta data will be implemented?

How about parallel/ segmented downloads?

Any comment or response from a forum administrator or developer would be greatly appreciated. :-)

Metadata has been implemented in-house. I imagine it will be a few weeks before we release it into the wild, though, as we've been working on tweaking the way it fits in the protocol.

Swarmed downloads are not the highest priority item at the moment, but we'll probably do that at some point. Can't give an estimate now.

BTW, LimeWire has been doing a fair amount of research on a novel query routing scheme. This will hopefully be available for beta testing in a few weeks. It's cool...

-Christopher Rohrs
LimeWire

so what is the new query routing scheme???

It's a way to avoid broadcasting queries, hence reducing Gnutella's bandwidth requirements tenfold. You can read a somewhat out-of-date version of our scheme at http://www.limewire.com/developer/query_routing/. Be warned that the paper is aimed at other developers and is very technical.

The query routing scheme is implemented in-house, but we don't know how it will work on a larger scale. That's why we'll need beta testers in a few weeks. =)

-Christopher Rohrs
Sr. Software Engineer
LimeWire

Its unfortunate that "swarmed downloading" is not a priority. I am not a programer, but from what I understand it should not be very difficult to add (maybe Im wrong). This is the one killer feature missing from all of the gnutella clients (besides meta data). That feature alone would cause me, and many others, to switch to any client that offers it.

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Am I wrong? Is swarmed downloading a difficult feature to implement or just not a priority? I know your focus is more on what you envision as the backbone of the network structure but I think that swarmed downloading would have a dramatically positive effect on the amount of network traffic and completed downloads. It, with meta data and md5 or crc are probably the most important features that could be added. Unfortunatly Vinnie is adding chat (though the reflector functionality is great). I like the auto reseach feature in Phex (though the developers dont ). It would be nice with the swarmed downloading.

GO GET IT!!!! IT HAS SEGMENTED DOWNLOADS!!! doesn't offer any advanced features, and is made for retards, but it works well!!!
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it also has the share files that you are downloading feature in it to!
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