Posted by AlmostBob on 01/23/06 14:48

that entirely depends on whether you were sucked in by one of the thousands
of RIAA file sources sitting on the network offering files that dont exist,
or have a bit errror in them that makes them not match the hash so the
connection fails. what were you searching for

"banana drama" <bananadrama@NOSPAMmad.scientist.com> wrote in message
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> 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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