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Poster: mnuanes Date: Feb 1, 2003 11:53am
Forum: etree Subject: Re: can anyone help?? RRFB 03-1-10

I have the same problem.

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Poster: nomad Date: Feb 1, 2003 2:34pm
Forum: etree Subject: Re: can anyone help?? RRFB 03-1-10

ok so at least one other person is having the same problems!! kind of interesting that out of, at present time, only two responses out of 49 hits??? i noticed the show is holding a 41% BA...new question is anyone downloading this show with any success????

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Poster: Rich Date: Feb 3, 2003 12:29am
Forum: etree Subject: Re: can anyone help?? RRFB 03-1-10

I have seen 4 or 5 people with this problem posting to other lists. The show is taking a long time to d/l and perhaps many of those 48 hits haven't completed the show, attempted to convert it and recieved the "No Magic Number" message.

It is a corrupt file.

I copied a response for this problem from Mark Goldey:

The file is corrupt.

http://research.umbc.edu/~hamilton/shnfaq.html

If the file plays OK in WinAmp, you may be able to generate .wavs from it by setting the output (under Preferences) to the Nullsoft .wav generator, which will create a .wav file. You'll want to listen carefully to be sure that the .wav has no flaws, though.

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Poster: Michael Moran Date: Feb 3, 2003 8:52am
Forum: etree Subject: Re: can anyone help?? RRFB 03-1-10

Thanks for passing on this information. If it is corrupt, the show should be pulled off of the server. I will post to the Robert Randolph list to see if any one can upload an uncorrupted version.

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Poster: Michael Moran Date: Feb 2, 2003 6:40am
Forum: etree Subject: Re: can anyone help?? RRFB 03-1-10

I've been away for a week, and just saw this thread, but the same thing happened to me. Shn's verified fine, but when I tried to convert them to wav files, a box popped up saying "cannot find magic number" (or something similar). I'm fairly experienced in downloading and trading shows in Shorten format, but this is the first time I have ever seen anything like this.

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Poster: sunphish Date: Feb 2, 2003 1:32am
Forum: etree Subject: Re: can anyone help?? RRFB 03-1-10

yeah, did not work for me either. a few other randolph shows did the same thing.

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Poster: Diana Hamilton Date: Feb 4, 2003 4:36am
Forum: etree Subject: Re: can anyone help?? RRFB 03-1-10

If you could specify which other shows are giving problems, that will help troubleshoot. Especially if they all might come from the same seeder or uploader. Please provide item locations like http://archive.org/audio/audio-details-db.php?id=2858

Also, from the misc reports here, I'm not clear on this: Is it *every* track of the 1/10/2003 d/l that's giving MD5 = OK on md5 check post-download, yet failing to decompress for *everyone*? Thanks for any details! I see there have only been positive reviews (2), that's part of what's puzzling me.

BTW given the nonstandard-looking prep on the fileset, it's possible there was some confusion or error at the seed>shn prep stage...

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Poster: Diana Hamilton Date: Feb 4, 2003 6:08am
Forum: etree Subject: Re: RRFB 03-1-10- remedy

OK, a d/l of a sample TrackD102.shn gives generated md5 =
b38a8e23aa6653d5083bb7a63eb00b18 *TrackD102.shn

which matches the one onsite (presumably uploaded with the shns). Indeed there is a "no magic number error on decompression attempt.

Conclusion: Situation serious at the seeder's end (he is presumably generating md5s on incorrectly compressed shns).

Followup needed from users: Please post reports here of any other shn sets where this identical thing is happening (ie, shns pass md5s, yet don't decompress properly). If it is multiples from the same person, it will help to present a better package of info to him to address fixes from his end. Thanks!

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Poster: Diana Hamilton Date: Feb 10, 2003 8:52pm
Forum: etree Subject: Re: RRFB 03-1-10- remedy

Nobody reported on any other shows by now. I've just contacted the uploader to see if he can help run down the problem.