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Issues downloading old thumbs on iTunes

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via twitter:

Looks like some of the episode downloads are offline. We're investigating. Sorry to all compulsives who re-download fresh copies daily.

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Yeah Shacknews finally decided they were done hosting copies of Thumbs and killed them from their CDN server. I wish they would have somehow told us but hey.

The Thumb admin tools even have this situation planned for, where an MP3 can have multiple download sources. That's not to say we ever set up more than one source for most files... :shifty:

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I'm sure this is the case for most members of the forum, but I have all the episodes on my iTunes if you need it/ if it helps.

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I'd love to get a hold of them should they go back up. Is there any kind of expected ETA?

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I have 95% of the episodes locally on my iTunes (100% of them are on my dead laptop). iTunes has unfortunately decided to be helpful and rename all of the files for me, though, which is frustrating. I'll be putting as many as I have back together / up starting tonight. A couple blasts and "no episode this week!" notices will be missing for the meantime.

If anyone happens to have the complete set, with the original filenames, I wouldn't turn them down, though.

Edited by Jake

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So if I provided some of the files with original file names that would help?

Because the <guid> tag in the RSS feed actually provides a working link to some of the podcasts and you have the filename there. I could get the mp3:s that have working guid URLs with their file names intact to you. I think it's about 29 so it's far from all of them.

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I was able to download the following from the RSS using the GUID value (36 files). Would this help?

idleconf_090325.mp3

idleconf_090327.mp3

idleconf_090330.mp3

idleconf_090401.mp3

idlenews_090205.mp3

idlenews_090226.mp3

idlenews_090309.mp3

idlenews_090327.mp3

idlethumbs_081007.mp3

idlethumbs_081015.mp3

idlethumbs_081028.mp3

idlethumbs_081106.mp3

idlethumbs_081112.mp3

idlethumbs_081117.mp3

idlethumbs_081204.mp3

idlethumbs_081210.mp3

idlethumbs_081217.mp3

idlethumbs_081223.mp3

idlethumbs_081230.mp3

idlethumbs_090107.mp3

idlethumbs_090114.mp3

idlethumbs_090121.mp3

idlethumbs_090128.mp3

idlethumbs_090204.mp3

idlethumbs_090212.mp3

idlethumbs_090218.mp3

idlethumbs_090225.mp3

idlethumbs_090304.mp3

idlethumbs_090319.mp3

idlethumbs_090408.mp3

idlethumbs_090415.mp3

idlethumbs_090429.mp3

idlethumbs_090506.mp3

idlethumbs_090513.mp3

idlethumbs_090520.mp3

idlethumbs_090527.mp3

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I have 95% of the episodes locally on my iTunes (100% of them are on my dead laptop). iTunes has unfortunately decided to be helpful and rename all of the files for me, though, which is frustrating. I'll be putting as many as I have back together / up starting tonight. A couple blasts and "no episode this week!" notices will be missing for the meantime.

If anyone happens to have the complete set, with the original filenames, I wouldn't turn them down, though.

Appreciate the reply, thanks. I need to hear about if I need the spice!

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I have 95% of the episodes locally on my iTunes (100% of them are on my dead laptop). iTunes has unfortunately decided to be helpful and rename all of the files for me, though, which is frustrating. I'll be putting as many as I have back together / up starting tonight. A couple blasts and "no episode this week!" notices will be missing for the meantime.

If anyone happens to have the complete set, with the original filenames, I wouldn't turn them down, though.

[edit] Never mind.

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I was able to download the following from the RSS using the GUID value (36 files). Would this help?

idleconf_090325.mp3

idleconf_090327.mp3

idleconf_090330.mp3

idleconf_090401.mp3

idlenews_090205.mp3

idlenews_090226.mp3

idlenews_090309.mp3

idlenews_090327.mp3

idlethumbs_081007.mp3

idlethumbs_081015.mp3

idlethumbs_081028.mp3

idlethumbs_081106.mp3

idlethumbs_081112.mp3

idlethumbs_081117.mp3

idlethumbs_081204.mp3

idlethumbs_081210.mp3

idlethumbs_081217.mp3

idlethumbs_081223.mp3

idlethumbs_081230.mp3

idlethumbs_090107.mp3

idlethumbs_090114.mp3

idlethumbs_090121.mp3

idlethumbs_090128.mp3

idlethumbs_090204.mp3

idlethumbs_090212.mp3

idlethumbs_090218.mp3

idlethumbs_090225.mp3

idlethumbs_090304.mp3

idlethumbs_090319.mp3

idlethumbs_090408.mp3

idlethumbs_090415.mp3

idlethumbs_090429.mp3

idlethumbs_090506.mp3

idlethumbs_090513.mp3

idlethumbs_090520.mp3

idlethumbs_090527.mp3

No heh. Dont worry about it guys. The ones that work work because they're hosted on Amazon AWS. The ones that don't work are gone because they were hosted on Shacknews (thanks Nick), but recently they decided to stop hosting the files and erased them (Congrats Nick).

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Thanks for taking the time to put them back up Jake!

I live in Iwate, Japan which is one of the prefectures whose coast was devastated by the quake in March. I am sufficiently inland but there is a trauma that I think all of us are still dealing with whether we were inland or not.

Didn't mean to make this such a personal post, just wanted to express my appreciation and that you are doing this for a very good cause, even if you don't realize it.

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I've got all the files with, I think the original names. I could possibly be of assistance should you still need it Jake.

edit: Nevermind, I have the iTunes versions of them, so it's labelled differently than the Direct MP3 download in the archives. I still have every file, labelled to a certain number of characters (iTunes seems to like to cut it off in the file names).

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The one I'm absolutely missing right now are:

Idle Thumbs Podcast 6: Shoveling your Hat and Crow

I've got the rest.

Most of the early episodes are bakc up, more will be appearing shortly.

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Has the entire feed been restored?

I'm still having trouble downloading some so I guess Jake got busy...

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There are about 30 episodes which aren't re-linked yet.

Thanks for the update Jake!

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There are about 30 episodes which aren't re-linked yet.

Oh man, if it took 6 months for just one video.... ;)

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What episodes are people missing? I was going to put the whole folder up, but it was 4.25 gigs and that's too big for my dropbox. Just ask and I'll put up any episodes.

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What episodes are people missing? I was going to put the whole folder up, but it was 4.25 gigs and that's too big for my dropbox. Just ask and I'll put up any episodes.

Wah, thanks it's much appreciated!

I'm looking for Episode 36 onward... If you want to just put that one and a few following or whatever that'd be great.

Thank you! :tup::grin:

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