Re: SHN Woes (NZC)

[Kirk Anderson <kanders8@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but if you check the .md5 file and it passes, you
have EXACTLY what the server has.  However, this doesn't mean that you're
in the clear yet...  if the SERVER'S version is corrupt, and he/she has
generated a .md5 from corrupted files, and your files pass the .md5 check,
this simply means you have the same corrupted file that the server has and
the problem lies on the SERVER'S end...  So, people serving .shn's, PLEASE
BE SURE YOUR FILES AREN'T CORRUPT before generating .md5 files!!  I say
this with emphasis b/c I can't tell you how many times I've searched for
alternate sources of .shn files b/c the server's files were bad.  just my
.02.  Good luck!!



On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Allan Ray wrote:

> Hoping someone can give me some help here...
> Been downloading some shows lately.  All SHN format.  And for the most part 
> they have all been corrupt.  A couple have been clean.  Now I refuse to 
> believe that this is a problem with the files as they are on a server, 
> otherwise no one would keep them around.  So I guess they're being corrupted 
> in the download?  But if this is so, why do .zip files and .exe files etc 
> work when I download them?  If there were corruption occuring then it 
> wouldn't discriminate against .shn.  So I don't get it at all.  Some other 
> information... I'm on a T-1 at my university, so this isn't some modem 
> weirdness.  The corruption manifests itself if the form of different sorts 
> of high frequency distortion which completely engulfs the music.
> Please help,
> Allan