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RE: Why oh why...

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


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