Comments on: Thoughts about the future of LottaNZB

By: SubBASS

SubBASS — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 17:24:50 +0000

I think this sounds a perfectly sensible way to proceed. I look forward to the update to 0.6 with SabNZB with anticipation.

By: Severin

Severin — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 11:28:38 +0000

Thanks everyone for the encouraging comments!

@DeepDown: When working on LottaNZB, usability was always our top priority and this isn’t going to change when migrating to SABnzbd. Having in mind how much time passed since the release of LottaNZB 0.1, the number of new features that were added since then probably isn’t overwhelming. This is mostly due to me rewriting stuff all over again (as I learned more about PyGTK programming) and the fact that (imho) new features must be carefully planned before starting to implement them.

Please note that ideas for new features are always highly appreciated. Don’t hesitate to create a blueprint at launchpad.net if you’ve got something cool on your mind.

By: DeepDown

DeepDown — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 10:32:12 +0000

From all the grabbers I’ve tried out LottaNZB was (and still is) the nicest, most likely because of the well thought of gui which aids the straight forward configuration.

Looking forward to what you guys come up with using SABnzb.

Best of luck, guys

By: demetris

demetris — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 23:02:07 +0000

cant wait for sabnzbp 0.5 to come out and also lottanzb 0.6 to be ready to jump the wagon.

Wise decision +

I wish all the best to developers.

By: hans van den bogert

hans van den bogert — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 19:36:49 +0000

O this is soo nice, I’m fed up with the broken downloads I get with hellanzb, requiring me to manually redownload the par files etc.
(segment000 is added to the par files, and they all have the same file-size, if someone has the same issue let me know)

By: Nicolas

Nicolas — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:52:57 +0000

Yeah! This is a very good news

By: NaFiann

NaFiann — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 07:50:15 +0000

It would be great if lottanzb switched to SABnzbd. I’ve used Lottanzb happily for a while now, but there are still some problems I’d like to see fixed, such as that repairing doesn’t always work and on restart creates a copy etc.
I had looked at SABnzbd before, but didn’t install it because of the web ui. Hope this all goes well:)

By: Severin

Severin — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 09:09:43 +0000

@WiLL&dasbooter: Thanks alot for the positive feedback! Of course it’s motivating for a developer like me to hear such nice words from users. I did not only start working on LottaNZB just in order to create a NZB grabber with an easy and intuitive interface for as many people as possible, but also in order to get known to Linux programming in general. It was in fact my first Python/GTK project I’ve been working on and LottaNZB was rewritten several times in the past as I learned more about Python/GTK programming. Such changes are not directly visible to the users and it may look as the development is slow-paced. However, it was a very valuable experience for me that I hope will come in handy when contributing to other free software projects.

@Christian: I absolutely get what you mean and I can assure you that the Newzbin tab will go away in LottaNZB 0.5 as the whole Newzbin code has been moved to a plug-in that needs to be enabled explicitely. Of course, the plug-in will be enabled from the start in case the user has made use of the Newzbin feature in the past.

By: Christian

Christian — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 11:58:58 +0000

Looking for a replacement of Grabit and Wine that are not always stable, found LottaNZB + HellaNZB as a nice solution, tested also SABnzb but will be easier to have the LottaNZB interface, One question : Why a specific tab for Newzbin because it is not free access, Currently no way to register to Newzbin as a newbie

By: dasbooter

dasbooter — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 21:34:23 +0000

Just found my way here. I remember searching and trying to get a reliable newsreader to work back in the day (suse user turning to eft but it is hard to remember) and I finally got hella to work (pan worked but was awkward in my opinion) in feisty or maybe it was gutsy. Then I started looking for a gui and well again it was difficult for me to make things work… but your app was a godsend and worked well and is still pretty unique so I would probably rely on your good judgment and simply follow you… it is always a time vs gratification issue and I hope you get more recognition and your app gets more widely accepted but in the end your app is valuable to me and thats all I know