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Old November 1st, 2001
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Default combining similar downloads

Often I see the same video clip available with two distinct names but the identical file size. Obviously someone has renamed the file after they received it but this reduces the score of the item and makes it more inconvient to other users who want to download it. It would be nice if people did not rename the files so the system can identify which file is which (although I have been quite guilty of this myself).

To deal with this, it would be nice if you could have Xolox combine two different files into one aggregated download (if the file sizes match). I realize that this could result in a corrupted download if two separately recorded media files were encoded with different codecs but just happen to end up the exact same size (come on really what's the chance of this?).

My point can be illustrated right now with the Tomb Raider video clip which is currently available as "tomb raider, divx.avi" and "tomb raider, divx(1) only fast downloads.avi". Both files are 701,370,608 bytes.

I believe there is a way to trick Xolox into resuming by modifying the resumeinfo.txt file but the problem I see if that if one version is online and you get a bit but then it goes offline so you fix the resumeinfo.txt file to get it going again. But then that server goes offline and you want to switch back to the original, etc...

This resumeinfo.txt fix requires a lot of work and I would like to see this process automated because the resumeinfo fix is too much of a bother for me to well.... bother.

Of course if people would not rename the files then it wouldn't be a problem. If...
 


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