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gd4ever |
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July 20, 2005 01:57:35pm |
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etree
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Re: Zip Files - Change in Policy |
This seems like a good idea. When downloading a show, I prefer not to use th zip file anyway. My reason is: occasionally a download will be corrupted, and not decompress properly. When that happens to me, I only need to re-download the song which had the problem. Not the whole show. FTP makes song-by-song downloading almost as easy as the whole-show link anyway.
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extranos |
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July 20, 2005 06:40:50pm |
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etree
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Re: Zip Files - Change in Policy |
How can I select and then download all the shns (by song) in one step? It seems if there are20 songs for one show, that by doing shn downloads by song means Id have to check my PC 20 times and do 20 "save link target as". Thanks! -Glenn
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Ole Uncle John |
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July 20, 2005 07:33:14pm |
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etree
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Re: Zip Files - Change in Policy |
Glenn I don't have an answer for you and I'm not intending to poke fun at you but I had to chuckle remembering the tape trading via post stoneage to think our biggest hassle now is having to check the PC several times. : )
God bless Al Gore and LMA.
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US Blues |
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July 21, 2005 12:12:51am |
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etree
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Re: Zip Files - Change in Policy |
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How exactly? I use an FTP client to download SHN zip-files, but I don't know that I can set it to download just SHN files out of the show folder. I can download the whole folder, but then I'd have all the mp3 stuff too, increasing my download time and costing you guys precious bandwidth. I'm not hassling, just wanting to discuss the technical details.
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 Brad Leblanc |
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July 21, 2005 06:26:50am |
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etree
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Re: Zip Files - Change in Policy |
One method is to hold down the CTRL key on your keyboard and highlight all the files you want, then initiate the download command that your FTP client has.
If you need more detailed info, you might search the forums - Try "download queue" or "selection groups".
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US Blues |
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July 21, 2005 12:22:12pm |
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etree
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Re: Zip Files - Change in Policy |
Thanks Brad, I'll try that when I need to.
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xtifr |
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July 21, 2005 09:52:17am |
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etree
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Re: Zip Files - Change in Policy |
I thought FTP access wasn't registered in the download counters. If everyone switches to using ftp instead of http to download shows, isn't that going to mess up the batting averages and other stats? (Not that I mind or anything, I'm just curious.)
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Brad Leblanc |
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August 18, 2005 10:13:38pm |
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etree
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Re: Zip Files - Change in Policy |
Yes, this is true. FTP does not count toward stats on a show download.
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xtifr |
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July 20, 2005 07:19:06pm |
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etree
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Re: Zip Files - Change in Policy |
If you download a whole-show zip, and find one file is bad, you can simply download that file again. You certainly don't have to download the whole-show zip again!
I wonder if it would be possible to offer on-the-fly tar archives? The advantage of tar over zip is that you can literally create the files on the wire; no local storage needed at all. Tar is designed for writing to tapes, so it does everything sequentially. A tiny bit of perl or php glue to fill in the mime type and filename, and then spit the raw output from tar down the socket. Only noticable cost would be the process slot.
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