Re: Download manager no longer needed?

I would say, "go with option 3."  Yes, that's a lot of work but
proprietary stuff deserves to be reverse engineered.  I think
proprietary is *FUCKED* open source, open standards, and free software
*ROCK!*  I seriously doubt option 2 would ever be possible since the
company developed a proprietary client and of course, the source is
closed and deep secret so they would probably never give out their
formats.

I realize that reverse engineering ain't easy but worth the effort if
there is enough interest in having it.

On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 10:53:56AM -0700, Kristian G. Kvilekval wrote:
> I've never used it but judging from the number of people that 
> knew about the rmp -> emp change, I would guess that we have quite
> a few emusic users.    
> 
> Soo.. in order of effort:
> 
> 1.  Remove it saving a few K and patch up the themes or modify the
> download button to do something useful.
> 
> 2.  Contact emusic and try to get them to give us there secret formula
> 
> 3.  Reverse engineer what they actually send on the wire.
> 
> 
> I have no reason to want it to be removed, but if it can't be made 
> to work then I guess #1 is the way to go..   
> 
> I really have no desire to patch the themes to remove the download
> button.   Anybody have any ideas of what would be a sensible of use of
> the download button?  Maybe open a browser to your favorite music
> service (emusic.com, mp3.com, livewire, etc)?  
> 
> Is there anybody on the list still in contact with the emusic folks?


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