Newsbin Rar sets handling

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Newsbin Rar sets handling

Postby keep » Sat Jan 11, 2014 9:38 pm

Lately with lot of DMCA removals, people post rar archives sets with obfuscated names and extensions.
Newsbin handle it perfectly : downloading and unraring with no problem.

But with scrambled names Newsbin doesn't download the archives in order. I agree it's not big deal, but sometime I like to preview a big download with the first rar I extract myself manually before the whole set is entirely downloaded.
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Re: Newsbin Rar sets handling

Postby Quade » Sat Jan 11, 2014 10:40 pm

Newsbin can't know the order till after the file downloads. The problem is that only the PAR file knows the order and you can't know what file a file is until you download some of it and find it in the PAR file. It's just code. Anything is possible but, it would require me to download the first chunk of ever file and then figure out from the PAR what the download order should be. Newsbin doesn't rename the files till it's repairing them so, that's another problem.
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