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In Reply to: RE: HD Tracks download method posted by Sturmey on February 11, 2015 at 16:51:26
Do these companies insist upon using a "download manager"? Your browser downloads thousands of pages every day/week, why is it deemed necessary to use some bullshit software to download the hi-res files? Additionally, who wants to clog up their PC with 30 different pieces of download manager software?
Not me, that's for sure...
-RW-
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I think we are in general agreement. I can provide a broad perspective, since I download music from many sites and since I manage (and developed the software) for a download site that sells CD quality downloads. The web site that I manage uses zip files to contain the downloads. (This works for CD quality files or lower, maybe not for high res multi-albums.) I see that many other sites are using this approach. It is simple, fast and convenient for the web site operator (fewer files to upload) and for the user (fewer files to download).
Unfortunately, some people have poor Internet connections. People download music from the web site I manage from all over the world, even third world countries with dial-up service. So for these people I recommend installing a download manager. I don't understand why existing web browsers don't allow restart of failed downloads, i.e. have a built in download manager. Also, I don't understand why some brain dead operating systems don't include a file manager GUI with ability to expand zip files. Could it possibly be a conspiracy to lock in their customers?
BTW, one of my favorite download vendors has lovely recordings but requires use of a particularly horrible download manager. This excrescence spins the disk causing CPU saturation while achieving less than 1/7 the download speed my network connection supports from other sites. I complained about this two years ago, but it the problem persists. (It is possible to work around this by downloading to a RAM disk if the download is small enough to fit. My RAM disk is limited to 4 GB.)
Names of operating systems and web sites have been omitted to protect the guilty. Feel free to speculate, but I will neither confirm nor deny...
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
I found the first Java based download manager that HDTracks used years ago to be a nightmare and total piece of junk.However, their new download manager that was made for them by the JRiver folks is outstanding.
The benefits:
It automates the download of multiple tracks and allows for several of them to download simultaneously (depending on your internet bandwidth) while others are in the queue before they automatically begin.
It does error checking and if there's a problem, it knows where to restart the download w/o having to start all over again.
All of this works seamlessly on my computer and beats the pants off just using a browser. For one or two software downloads via an internet link, a browser does fine but that doesn't mean a download manager doesn't serve a purpose.
I wonder what download manager the OP has. Like I said the early Java based download manager was junk. Their current one works beautifully. He maybe experiencing other HDTracks problems though.
P.S. Many companies suggest the use of a download manager or provide one for users especially when dealing with multiple very large files for the benefits listed above.
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I agree. I think I have 3 different ones but use HDTracks for most of them. The only nice thing about HDTracks is how it works nicely with JRiver.
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