.plan for Project Scoundrel

The plan for this project is divided into four categories - GrandVisions, LesserVisions, GUI/CosmeticStuff and BugsToBeSquished/ThingsToFix. Read on to see what will be happening soon...

GrandVisions

• A radically new type of manual downloading
• Pipeline searches and downloads.
• Extract the search service code to a .dll and enable the addition of other search services through other .dll's (become a "meta-client").
• Multithreaded downloads
• Improved automatic searching
  • Asking better queries to the server
  • Better matching of found results
  • Handle remixes

LesserVisions

• Save the queued queries on exit to enable "continue interrupted search".
• Add "unqueue all queries, unshare all files and quit when all downloads/uploads finish"-feature.
• Add "get those I don't have already"-feature (ie, first scan the local harddrive for music. Could be implemented through another network!)
• Add "beautify the files i already have based on this query"
• Update the ID3-tag too, not only the filename.
• Genre-information should be extracted from the webpages too, if possible.
• Ping the search results and try to download from low-ping-peers first.

GUI/CosmeticStuff

• Change "Current downloads" to "Uploads" under the Share-tab
• Add another button to the applications titlebar - "minimize to systray".
• Add a checkbox "do not rename downloaded file" to the add-query-form. Perhaps also as a general feature under the configuration tab.
• Improve the Built-In-Browser so that when you hit enter a form is submitted etc (so you don't have to use the mouse all the time).

BugsToBeSquished/ThingsToFix

• Look into the "share on successful download"-issue.
• Implement Logoff/Login-scheme to deal with timeouting servers.
• Deal with "disk full" and other file-handling anomalies.
• Don't send the "Play"-command to Winamp if the playlist is empty since this will bring up the "add tracks"-dialog and lock Scoundrel.
• Tons of these I fear... Go report some.