02-16-2003, 10:00 PM
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Contributing Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
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CNet Radio Downloads Launches
Last month I posted a blurb that CNet Radio was going to provide downloads in MP3 format which meant they would be portable and usable on your Pocket PC. It has officially launched at CNetRadio.com.
I immediately installed the download manager. It is 3MB on your PC once installed by a company called Kontiki. I was a bit disapointed that I couldn't just pull down the MP3s without needing a third party app. Does me no good to have a Pocket PC capable of WiFi if I have to have a desktop to download the content.  Programs are available at 7:30am and 2:30am Pacific Time. They are 15 minutes each and are in huge 9MB+ files. 8O Makes me appreciate the 1.8MB 1 hour audible file format.
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02-16-2003, 10:24 PM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 1,023
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Ugh... not Kontiki. Perhaps there's a way around with with enough tinkering, or maybe they'll give in and remove it. I highly doubt it though. :?
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02-16-2003, 10:39 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Dec 2002
Posts: 15
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I didn't even know there was a download manager! I use Mozilla as my main browser and it just gives links to the downloads 
Tried again with IE - it makes you use that konticki thing. Must be something that detects your broswer...
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02-16-2003, 10:52 PM
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Philosopher
Join Date: Jul 2003
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Hehe.. Phoenix user here, and no addons for me! :P
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02-16-2003, 11:11 PM
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Contributing Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
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Found out you can download directly from the Pocket PC. Promptly uninstalled the Download mangler from my PC.
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02-16-2003, 11:16 PM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Jul 2003
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Yes, I hate the new "direct" format. And that little Kontiki client is a real pain the @$$. :evil: Especially when you're stuck on dial-up connection, like me. Whenever the client launches it hogs up ALL of my bandwith.
The real tragedy is that CNET Radio is dead. They shutdown operations a few weeks ago. Everyone has been laid off. :cry:
All of the tech media firms are going under. TechTV will be next. :cry:
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02-16-2003, 11:41 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Dec 2002
Posts: 10
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How do I download files without using Download Manager?
Thanks.
Guy
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02-16-2003, 11:49 PM
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Pupil
Join Date: Dec 2002
Posts: 10
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What is the idea behind the Download Manager?
If they want us to listen, why they want us to install the Download Manager for? Then they said, it's not the Spyware.
Guy
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02-17-2003, 12:38 AM
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Sage
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 784
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Quote:
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Originally Posted by Foo Fighter
All of the tech media firms are going under. TechTV will be next. :cry:
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You really think TechTV will die next? I sure hope not...that's one of my favorite cable channels, they almost always have something on that's interesting.
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02-17-2003, 12:42 AM
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Thinker
Join Date: Sep 2002
Posts: 405
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Quote:
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Originally Posted by Ed Hansberry
Found out you can download directly from the Pocket PC. Promptly uninstalled the Download mangler from my PC.
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Please, do share!
I try to access cnetradio.com from my PPC, and then I login, but after I log-in, I get the error:
"
TF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
FOUND
The document has moved here."
And then the link takes me to the exact same page. What gives!?
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