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Just purchased and look forward to listening but requiring me to only download 4 albums at a time is rather poor. "Please only download 4 files at a time or yo

Just purchased and look forward to listening but requiring me to only download 4 albums at a time is rather poor. "Please only download 4 files at a time or you may be disconnected from the file servers."

shinratdr 15y ago
Also, you can only download each album 20 times and it shows you a visible count. Not exactly a repressive restriction or anything, just thought I might throw it out there.
zirconst 15y ago
This is primarily an issue with how Amazon S3 works, unfortunately.
- oblique63 15y ago
  Have you thought about giving the option to just torrent them? (Like how the HumbleBundle guys do)
  - ralphsaunders 15y ago
    Yes, would have much preferred a torrent with a passworded .zip or something similar. Would have been faster too.
- lifeformed 15y ago
  Couldn't they just zip up all the albums into one file?
  - code_duck 15y ago
    Downloads of one giant file are less reliable - more of a chance someone will download 5GB and then have to start over because of corruption. Torrents aren't much better; I downloaded some 25 GB video of a train in Norway and 90% of it is unviewable. The best way to do this would probably be a multi-part rar.
    - rcfox 15y ago
      > Torrents aren't much better If your torrented video was corrupted, it's because the original file was corrupted. Your torrent client would have thrown away anything that's different from the original. > The best way to do this would probably be a multi-part rar. They already offer multiple-file downloads. The compression algorithm isn't going to change the fact that multiple concurrent downloads fail.
      - code_duck 15y ago
        rar is often employed more as a packager than a compressor. For instance, if you have a 5 GB file to offer for download, you split it into 7 parts with rar and offer it as a self-extracting .exe, like they are doing here for instance http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=11575 http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=11575 As for the file being corrupt, I suspect something else may have been going on, such as bugs with torrent clients. I don't know why the original source file would have been corrupted, as it was supplied by the maker of the film.
        ralphsaunders 15y ago
        Well, if it's coming from more than one source (multiple trackers) it could rather simply have been tampered with.
uses 15y ago
They added torrents at some point. I'm currently downloading all the albums using my max bandwidth.

shinratdr 15y ago

Also, you can only download each album 20 times and it shows you a visible count. Not exactly a repressive restriction or anything, just thought I might throw it out there.

zirconst 15y ago

This is primarily an issue with how Amazon S3 works, unfortunately.

oblique63 15y ago
Have you thought about giving the option to just torrent them? (Like how the HumbleBundle guys do)
- ralphsaunders 15y ago
  Yes, would have much preferred a torrent with a passworded .zip or something similar. Would have been faster too.
lifeformed 15y ago
Couldn't they just zip up all the albums into one file?
- code_duck 15y ago
  Downloads of one giant file are less reliable - more of a chance someone will download 5GB and then have to start over because of corruption. Torrents aren't much better; I downloaded some 25 GB video of a train in Norway and 90% of it is unviewable. The best way to do this would probably be a multi-part rar.
  - rcfox 15y ago
    > Torrents aren't much better If your torrented video was corrupted, it's because the original file was corrupted. Your torrent client would have thrown away anything that's different from the original. > The best way to do this would probably be a multi-part rar. They already offer multiple-file downloads. The compression algorithm isn't going to change the fact that multiple concurrent downloads fail.
    - code_duck 15y ago
      rar is often employed more as a packager than a compressor. For instance, if you have a 5 GB file to offer for download, you split it into 7 parts with rar and offer it as a self-extracting .exe, like they are doing here for instance http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=11575 http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=11575 As for the file being corrupt, I suspect something else may have been going on, such as bugs with torrent clients. I don't know why the original source file would have been corrupted, as it was supplied by the maker of the film.
      - ralphsaunders 15y ago
        Well, if it's coming from more than one source (multiple trackers) it could rather simply have been tampered with.

uses 15y ago

They added torrents at some point. I'm currently downloading all the albums using my max bandwidth.