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Posted by banana drama on 01/23/06 13:35
Stratman wrote:
> "banana drama" <bananadrama@NOSPAMmad.scientist.com> wrote in message
> news:43D29183.2DCD70D6@NOSPAMmad.scientist.com...
> | Can anybody help me to get rid of this annoying problem? The problem is
> | that the "find sources" function in my Winmx apparently overlooks files
> | that do exist among users.
> | Let's say I'm looking for the file "xyz": I make a search and I find
> | some users who have it, then I click on "xyz" and I enter the queue
> | quite normally. If all users go offline before I have come thru the
> | queue in order to start downloading, however, then the automatic "find
> | sources" function does not find the new users with "xyz" who may have
> | got online in the meantime. In other words, If I make a new manual
> | search (not a "find sources") on the very same file, it happens that I
> | may find a lot of users with that file, even though these users were not
> | noticed by the "find sources" function.
> | This does not happen quite every time, but often enough (approx. 75% of
> | the cases) to bother me.
> | Thanks in advance
> | Banana Drama
> |
> |
> "Find Sources" is not for finding all versions af a title, That is what
> "Search" is for.
>
> Find Sources finds identical copies of a title. There are hundreds of copies
> of, let's say, Freebird on WinMX. Dozens of people have ripped it and each
> rip is a different file. They are of different length (including any silence
> at either end), different bitrates, different volume and EQ to name but a
> few parameters. These are what "Search" will find.
>
> Having selected one to download you then get cutoff midway. "Find Sources"
> will try to find other copies OF THAT PARTICULAR FILE so the download can
> add it to what it's already got.
>
> Hope this makes sense.
Thank you - maybe I explained myself badly, but I know very well that "Find
Sources" and "Search" are different things. My problem occurs with exactly the
same version of a file (that's why I wrote "the very same file").
Let's say that I have a partially downloaded file in the "Download" window. It
is in red because no user is found with that file. When the time for a "find
sources" comes, Winmx searches for the sources, but again no user is found with
that file, so when the "find sources" is completed the file name is still in
red.
Then I switch to the "Search" option ad make a search on that file. As you
pointed out, many different versions of that file may turn up. But my problem is
that I, among these different versions of the same file name, may also get the
very same version (same length) of the file that I had partially downloaded.
This file is highlighted in blue in the "Search" field, which means that it is
indeed the very same version of the file that I had partially downloaded.
Nevertheless, this file could not be found by the "Finding Sources" function,
neither manually nor automatically!
As I wrote before, this does not happens quite every time (i.e. some files are
normally found by "Find Sources"), but in approx. 75% of the cases, which is
annoying enough. Another strange fact that I cannot explain is that some of the
additional users that I select after a "Search" get a purple color and then
disappear from the "Download" window even though my position in their queue is
quite low (10 or 11 for example), while other users may light in blue and remain
connected even though my place is much more back in their queue (150 or or
more).
Finally I want to mention that I can only use a secondary connection, but I
cannot see why this should be the reason of the problem.
Thanks in advance for any kind of help.
Banana Drama
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