Posted by Stratman on 01/22/06 12:25

"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.

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