I have been thinking about adding a feature to JEmplode -- chatted with Mike about it a little, and wanted to get some feedback here before I run off and work on it.

It's a bit controversial, I think, so bear with me.

I am thinking of adding a basic irc client to JEmplode. It'd be another toplevel window like the editors. However, this client would have the ability to share music between empegs.

The idea is that someone could mark their empeg database as searchable or searchable and downloadable, by people in a given irc channel. In the former, people could query my music but not get at it; in the latter, they could query it and download it as well. Additionally, I could drag-n-drop music from my database onto a nick in the irc window to give them the music; this would provide the middle ground of being able to search someones music, but having to request that they transfer it to you.

That's the basic idea -- doesn't anyone think it has merit? Or is it just another napster desitined for the dumps?

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