Re: Download manager no longer needed?

"Mark B. Elrod" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.audio.zinf.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I can talk to them. I will let you guys know what they say.

elrod

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?
>
>
>On Tue, 2003-05-13 at 09:51, Thomas Kimpton wrote:
>  
>
>>If anyone else is a subscriber to eMusic you know that they have changed
>>their download format (fyi, it looks like a modified base64, for
>>obfuscation
>>purposes) and REQUIRES their proprietary download manager.  Their
>>download
>>FAQ specifically mentions zinf by name, saying that it will no longer
>>work to download music and that they REQUIRE users to use their new
>>download manager. They have versions for PC/Mac/Linux. The linux version
>>doesn't work, at least for me.
>>
>>	http://help.emusic.com/emdlm/
>>
>>Anyway, looks like you can rip out the download manager.
>>
>>Tom.
>>
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