This is not critical (or even criticism) but from across the pond, CD orders take a while to get here; it must be even worse for the antipodeans. It entails Matt and family in a lot of unpaid labour, too.
So...
Is it practical to have a downloadable version of CD routes (even the non-CD ones which come in half a dozen spanned zip-files) in the library for those of us on high speed connections? In addition to the partworks, I mean? So that I can have a new route in an hour instead of a couple of weeks?
I can appreciate that some uploaders might not have broadband, so I'm willing to try to d'l partworks, reassemble them and reupload if that'll help...
It's worth the month's membership to me to avoid the postal delay - and I'll keep paying, Matt, honest!
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I'm toying with putting the CD's all up for download, the only difficulty I have is the bandwidth costs - the way the premium sub is worked out, you'd blow it sky high if you downloaded even one CD per month.
The premium sub is priced on the assumption that on average there is something like 20 meg per day I think, i'd need to recheck the figures - and normally 20 meg per day averaged out over all users over a month is working out no problem, when someone releases a route like the blackpool one that bends things a bit but it soon averages out again. Putting a 600 meg CD on there for download would cause a bit more of a headache though.
So the short answer is yes, I'm trying to sort something out, but it's not quite as straightforward as it first appears
Matt.
The premium sub is priced on the assumption that on average there is something like 20 meg per day I think, i'd need to recheck the figures - and normally 20 meg per day averaged out over all users over a month is working out no problem, when someone releases a route like the blackpool one that bends things a bit but it soon averages out again. Putting a 600 meg CD on there for download would cause a bit more of a headache though.
So the short answer is yes, I'm trying to sort something out, but it's not quite as straightforward as it first appears
Matt.
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would it not be possible to make a one-off charge for the download as an optional EXTRA when purchasing the CD?
so you'd pay for the CD, and then for example, pay an extra £5 charge for the bandwith (maybe even calculate it on the fly) - you then get a link which takes you to a page to put in a keycode, and it will download the file (only working once, or twice or whatever)
so you'd pay for the CD, and then for example, pay an extra £5 charge for the bandwith (maybe even calculate it on the fly) - you then get a link which takes you to a page to put in a keycode, and it will download the file (only working once, or twice or whatever)