Re: Download manager no longer needed?
"Mark B. Elrod" <[email protected]>
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Down Boy! <grin> EMusic is pretty cool about open standards (or was). Now that they are owned by Universal they might not have as much freedom but if they can I am sure they will let us know how to communicate. elrod Steve Holmes wrote: >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? >> >> > > >------------------------------------------------------- >Enterprise Linux Forum Conference & Expo, June 4-6, 2003, Santa Clara >The only event dedicated to issues related to Linux enterprise solutions >www.enterpriselinuxforum.com > >_______________________________________________ >Zinf-devel mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/zinf-devel > >