Safari – resuming broken downloads

murraybiscuit — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 08:34:36 +0000

I got half way through the IOS SDK download last night, woke up this morning and it had failed. I tried everything from CURL to iGetter to try to resume the download, but none of it worked. Even going into Safari’s .download file and fiddling with the .plist inside (using a cloned paused download file) didn’t work.

The problem with using CURL was that the download is authenticated with your Apple Developer Account details, using session ID’s and cookies, so CURL isn’t going to help much there. I should imagine the fix I found would work for most files downloaded.

The eventual solution was the following:
1. Login to the Apple Account using Firefox.
2. Go to the same download link.
3. Start downloading the file (should go into your Downloads directory by default).
4. Pause the download in Firefox Download Manager.
5. Replace the .part Firefox download file with the extracted Safari file in the .download package.
6. Hit resume in the Firefox Download window.

Windows Media Player 12, ID3 tags and permissions

murraybiscuit — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 07:53:24 +0000

I’ve been having the strangest problem in Windows 7 with WMP 12. Basically what happens is that I use 3 different audio players: Windows Media Player 12, Nokia Music and Songbird. I noticed that some of my tracks kept on losing their info in WMP. I tried editing the tags of the files and didn’t get anywhere, so decided to try doing it through explorer instead. I then discovered that all the tags on these files looked like they had been erased / were blank. Trying to edit the tags then gave me an error that I didn’t have permissions to edit the file.

The problem was that everything was actually working fine and playing as it should. And in the other two programs, the file meta data was reading fine. So the files weren’t corrupt. I then found this post which helped:

http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/GettingReadyforWindows7/thread/2af26d67-ea9a-4305-98a1-b4a05e13fa17

After a bit of searching, I found a batch tag editor for multiple audio formats at www.mp3tag.de. Browsing through my music collection showed me that the issue was in fact with the tag type. For some reason, ID3v2.4 tags aren’t properly supported by WMP12. Sorting my collection by tag name in mp3tag allowed me to select all of these files, change some arbitrary field and automatically re-save them in ID3v2.3 format (you can set the format up in the program options).

Problem solved.

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Safari – resuming broken downloads

Windows Media Player 12, ID3 tags and permissions