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> From: nat hawks <natbot@hotmail.com>
> Subject: RE: [idm] Autechre - Quaristice download out now plus ltd. edition 2CD
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> funny, i was right in making my first bleep.com purchase for the new chris clark...
> which is behaving oddly.
> it says it's preparing the zip, but the 'thinking bar' flashes from start to finish over and over again. it might be > on its way, but it might not be. is this behavior typical? i know it said it might take almost half-an-hour..
I'm plugging my own solution, but Bleep and other download stores
could use metalinks instead of zipping up a collection of music files
for easy download. zipping is expensive, eating up server resources in
CPU time and diskspace.
with a metalink, a small XML file used by download apps, you can add a
bunch of files to a download queue, add checksums & other info to
verify that files have been downloaded error free or are automatically
repaired, & add album artwork, descriptions, and extra mirrors to make
it more reliable.
about 30 apps support it now, but no mainstream browsers, so it's a
bit cutting edge.
here's a screenshot of a Ubuntu ISO metalink about to be downloaded
with DownThemAll, a Firefox extension:
http://www.metalinker.org/images/dta_ubuntu.png
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