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From: Paul Fuchs on 6 Feb 2010 17:36
I have a slow and intermittant ISP. When my ISP goes down and I have
an iTunes podcast downloading, after my ISP come up again and I hit the
little circular restart icon on the right, the podcast will take up
where it left off. But if I am downloading an mp3 in Safari, it will
insist on starting at the beginning, even if I am 90% finished. Is
there a work around for this?

--
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth
becomes a revolutionary act.
George Orwell
From: Mike Rosenberg on 6 Feb 2010 17:48
Paul Fuchs <pf(a)porkain'tkosher.oink> wrote:

> I have a slow and intermittant ISP. When my ISP goes down and I have
> an iTunes podcast downloading, after my ISP come up again and I hit the
> little circular restart icon on the right, the podcast will take up
> where it left off. But if I am downloading an mp3 in Safari, it will
> insist on starting at the beginning, even if I am 90% finished. Is
> there a work around for this?

If you're willing to pay $25, this sounds like something you may well
want to try:

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/11684

"iGetter is a powerful, full featured download manager and accelerator.
iGetter can greatly improve the speed of your downloads using segmented
downloading. In addition it allows auto resume on broken downloads,
queue filtering, site explorer, searching of mirrors, FileAvenue.net
integration, history list, scheduling downloads for low traffic periods,
auto redial on broken connection, auto hang-up, and shut down on
completion."

Of course, you have to be able to download this successfully in the
first place. ;-)

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From: John McWilliams on 6 Feb 2010 18:33
Paul Fuchs wrote:
> I have a slow and intermittant ISP. When my ISP goes down and I have
> an iTunes podcast downloading, after my ISP come up again and I hit the
> little circular restart icon on the right, the podcast will take up
> where it left off. But if I am downloading an mp3 in Safari, it will
> insist on starting at the beginning, even if I am 90% finished. Is
> there a work around for this?

You might want to try Firefox, as I am pretty sure there'd be an add-on
to take care of that sort of thing.
Since I went broadband, broken d/l's are of no consequence.

Another possiblity is using Limewire, which does itself resume where
left off if it can re-find the file.

--
john mcwilliams
From: Tom Harrington on 6 Feb 2010 19:39
In article <1jdhuez.e2xjez1kmo2d1N%pf(a)porkain'tkosher.oink>,
pf(a)porkain'tkosher.oink (Paul Fuchs) wrote:

> I have a slow and intermittant ISP. When my ISP goes down and I have
> an iTunes podcast downloading, after my ISP come up again and I hit the
> little circular restart icon on the right, the podcast will take up
> where it left off. But if I am downloading an mp3 in Safari, it will
> insist on starting at the beginning, even if I am 90% finished. Is
> there a work around for this?

Where are you downloading these mp3s from?

Resuming downloads requires that the web site (or whatever server)
cooperate and understand the request to begin downloading in the middle
of a file instead of at the start. If the server doesn't support that,
then resuming won't work, regardless of what software you're using.

With iTunes, Apple's servers understand iTunes' request and the download
resumes. Your mp3 downloads may be coming from a site that just doesn't
deal with that.

--
Tom "Tom" Harrington
Independent Mac OS X developer since 2002
http://www.atomicbird.com/
From: Paul Fuchs on 6 Feb 2010 23:14
Tom Harrington <tph(a)pcisys.no.spam.dammit.net> wrote:

> In article <1jdhuez.e2xjez1kmo2d1N%pf(a)porkain'tkosher.oink>,
> pf(a)porkain'tkosher.oink (Paul Fuchs) wrote:
>
> > I have a slow and intermittant ISP. When my ISP goes down and I have
> > an iTunes podcast downloading, after my ISP come up again and I hit the
> > little circular restart icon on the right, the podcast will take up
> > where it left off. But if I am downloading an mp3 in Safari, it will
> > insist on starting at the beginning, even if I am 90% finished. Is
> > there a work around for this?
>
> Where are you downloading these mp3s from?
>
Thanks, Tom. I download from a large variety of sites. A good many of
them are blog sites which interviews of people who interest me in the
political or macroeconomic area.


> Resuming downloads requires that the web site (or whatever server)
> cooperate and understand the request to begin downloading in the middle
> of a file instead of at the start. If the server doesn't support that,
> then resuming won't work, regardless of what software you're using.
>
> With iTunes, Apple's servers understand iTunes' request and the download
> resumes. Your mp3 downloads may be coming from a site that just doesn't
> deal with that.


--
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth
becomes a revolutionary act.
George Orwell
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