Announcing: download fights as ZIP files

[jast]

Depending on what software you have available, downloading a fight (e.g. for reviewing) is fairly tedious: in the worst case, you have to download each file individually. No, wait: had to. Because now there are ZIP files.

• Complete: all fights ever published on songfight.org! (Currently 32 GB worth of data)
• Simple: each title as a single ZIP file!
• No fluff: each ZIP file has nothing but the songs, with not a single bit changed!
• No limits: download as much and as often as you want! The ZIP files are hosted in a place where that doesn't bother anyone. (The amount directly downloadable per month is limited, but even after that you can still download to your heart's content – you'll just be routed through a simple download page and there's a timer if you download multiple files in a row.)

ZIP files are available on: http://jk.gs/songfight-download/

If there are any problems, let me know.

PS. want to link to ZIP files from your own site? Stable links look like this: //jk.gs/songfight-download/gimme.php/<fight key>.zip

[Lunkhead]

Pretty cool! Mind if I link to these from the Jukebox?

[roymond]

This is sweet. I use iDownloader on iPhone for downloading and listening and this is the perfect solution.

Will new fights appear magically once posted?

[jast]

@Lunkhead: not at all.
@roymond: no, but there's a link you can click to make it create a new archive. Usually takes less than two minutes.

PS. I changed the code for grabbing the current fight, after downloading the one that's currently current (language fails me...), so the next one may or may not work properly (though I think it's probably fine). If it doesn't, let me know.

[Niveous]

Wow, I wish you would've announced this a few days ago, before i downloaded the entire 32GBs song by song.

[fluffy]

This is pretty useful for people who don't want to set up a download manager themselves.

Niveous: Did you really manually download every single link? There are plenty of other ways of downloading things en masse. I generally use wget, which is a commandline tool.

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wget -m http://www.songfight.org/ -A mp3

will download all of the mp3s on the site, and

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wget -r -l 1 http://www.songfight.org/ -A mp3

will only download the ones currently on the front page.

[jb]

gee, wonder why the data transfer on .org spiked

[Niveous]

Niveous: Did you really manually download every single link?

I used Firefox's Down the All. One click and blam, it was done 4 hours later.

[jast]

I used Firefox's Down the All. One click and blam, it was done 4 hours later.

So it wasn't actually worse than downloading the ZIP files...

[jast]

PS. PHP is such a horrible language. array_merge() keeps string keys intact but recounts numeric keys. If a string happens to look like a number... it's a number. That's why, until just now, the title '501' wasn't handled properly. Fortunately the workhorse of the download site is written in shell script – that's much saner.

[fluffy]

PS. PHP is such a horrible language. array_merge() keeps string keys intact but recounts numeric keys. If a string happens to look like a number... it's a number. That's why, until just now, the title '501' wasn't handled properly. Fortunately the workhorse of the download site is written in shell script – that's much saner.

sigh

motherfucking data typing, how does it work

[Lunkhead]

Funny, I never had issues like that in Java.

Anyway, jb, care to elaborate with any info/stats at all about normal songfight.org bandwidth usage compared to the recent spike?

[jast]

Funny, I never had issues like that in Java.

Funny, I don't like writing 5000 lines of code and adding three frameworks when 100 LoC and no framework would do.

[Lunkhead]

I don't get your point.

[roymond]

Please stand by...I am preparing my geek postering post...

[josh]

I take it this is no longer happening? Anyway, I can confirm "DownThemAll" does the job in Firefox.

[jast]

Crap... apparently a recent power failure destroyed (part of) the database. I'll try and get it rebuilt soonish.

[jast]

Well, that was easier than I thought... fixed