LottaNZB

The results for my daily Google search for websites that mentioned the term ‘lottanzb’ in the past 24 hours have already brought interesting stuff to my attention in the past. But today, I didn’t believe my eyes: LottaNZB has been briefly reviewed by Dave Yates of the Hacker Public Radio! He talked about what the NZB file format is, how to install LottaNZB and how to download NZB files.

One feature David missed when he started LottaNZB the first time was a search function which replaces visits to NZB search engines like alt.binaries.nl, Newzbin.com etc. LottaNZB currently works similar to Bittorrent clients like Transmission (my favorite one). They just process torrent files and finding them is left up to the user. For LottaNZB however, there’s something on the horizon: The next version of LottaNZB will most probably include an easy to use plug-in (not enabled by default) that lets users subscribe to TV series listed on TVNZB.com. We don’t know if/when LottaNZB will feature a general search function though.

So, many thanks to David for this great Hacker Public Radio episode and making my day! You’ve just got a new podcast subscriber.