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[venta]

Some time ago, before we had all this summer nonsense, I posted an mp3 of a track called England Green. It was an attempt to console people when it wouldn't stop raining (despite Oxfordshire's hosepipe ban).

Recently, trawling around in my weblogs, I noticed that it's still being regularlylistened to. From an IP address which whois tells me falls in a range owned by China Telecom. Which is odd.

Is it you ? Does anyone know who this mysterious person in China (or perhaps not in China at all) is ? I'd hate to take the mp3 down while they're still listening to it, and presumably enjoying it, but maybe they could be persuaded to download themselves a local copy ?

At this rate, I'll have to replace the mp3 with a recording of me saying "you fool Just download it".

Comments

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Oh do!

[hendybear.livejournal.com]

I am not china telecom, but I just tried to download the zipped version and the link is broken. Might this explain things.....

[venta.livejournal.com]

Er, no, why would it explain things ?

Someone is repeatedly downloading the unzipped version, and I'm not sure why the link to the zipped version would affect that.

(The zipped version is of course only there for people whose work web policies won't let them download mp3s).

[hendybear.livejournal.com]

Because in some browsers, like for instance firefox the link which plays the track opens in the browser with no obvious option to save the file to disk.

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

Right-clicking the link and using "save link as" works for me.

[hendybear.livejournal.com]

Agreed, however some people are new to the web, for instance my parents generation will tend to click on the link and then try to save. For them it makes sense, multiple options from one "button" are a relatively new thing. In the recent past a "button" did one job, now we have multiple operations possible from one "button".

It only needs one person to not fully understand the way things work to results in venta 's problem.

[floralaetifica.livejournal.com]

I'm with you - there are an astonishing number of people who have no idea that right-clicking even exists as an option.

[cardinalsin.livejournal.com]

Surely the right hand side of the mouse is just there to rest your fingers on?

(and that weird wheel in the middle is for twiddling when bored)

[venta.livejournal.com]

I don't think I'd expect someone who didn't know about right-clicking to understand zip files either, but maybe that's wrong of me.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Ah. I see.

And no, it isn't that, because the link wasn't originally broken. About a month ago I was clearing up old files, and removed the zip file. I was about to remove the mp3 file (and remove the links) when I realised it was still being downloaded.

So at the point whoever it is started downloading it every day, the link to the zip file worked.

My Firefox, if I click on a link to an mp3, pops up a box asking if I want to play it or save it. I don't remember changing any options to do with that, so had assumed it the default behaviour.

[broadmeadow.livejournal.com]

It is certainly odd. Two (remote) possibilities:

• The page I put photos on for your photo contest is getting regular hits from google and inktomisearch (yahoo). That was linked from your livejournal entry (and nowhere else I am aware of) so it's possible a spider has found your mp3 file - though why it's interested in mp3 or zip files is another matter. What is the browser your Chinese fan is using?
  
  
• Someone I know put an mp3 file I was hosting into their itunes playlist, or something. Their pc kept accessing the file and I got the impression this was happening whether they listened to it regularly or not (possibly itunes was reading the tags?)
  

[venta.livejournal.com]

Which browser:
"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.00; Windows 98)"

Although a lot of the accesses don't report a brower, so maybe the iTunes thing is a plausible explanation.