http://frankschmitt.org/2007/11/things-that-i-hate-part-i-download-links-that-arent Information, projects Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:09:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://frankschmitt.org/2007/11/things-that-i-hate-part-i-download-links-that-arent#comment-6045 Joe Philipps Wed, 21 May 2008 00:15:07 +0000 http://frankschmitt.org/2007/11/things-that-i-hate-part-i-download-links-that-arent#comment-6045 NIC1138: that's pretty simple, at least in the pls case. That's a playlist, and it CAN (but sometimes isn't) set up so that your software tries several sources for the media. That way if one server is down, the software will either time out (server totally "gone") or move on to the next quickly (server daemon not running so you get ICMP port unreachable (connection refused)), thus a crude form of redundancy. However, more than once this has also been used for a beg-intro (like some public radio stations that stream). NIC1138: that’s pretty simple, at least in the pls case. That’s a playlist, and it CAN (but sometimes isn’t) set up so that your software tries several sources for the media. That way if one server is down, the software will either time out (server totally “gone”) or move on to the next quickly (server daemon not running so you get ICMP port unreachable (connection refused)), thus a crude form of redundancy. However, more than once this has also been used for a beg-intro (like some public radio stations that stream).

]]> http://frankschmitt.org/2007/11/things-that-i-hate-part-i-download-links-that-arent#comment-5364 NIC1138 Thu, 01 May 2008 06:24:29 +0000 http://frankschmitt.org/2007/11/things-that-i-hate-part-i-download-links-that-arent#comment-5364 That is really annoying. Something else that I hate is how audio and video files can't never be simply there as a regular file, but always inside some nitty witty player applet, or inside those pls files... Why can't people simply let the files be transfered, and end of story??... That is really annoying. Something else that I hate is how audio and video files can’t never be simply there as a regular file, but always inside some nitty witty player applet, or inside those pls files… Why can’t people simply let the files be transfered, and end of story??…

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