amarok changing timestamps on netcasts

[Jason Paul Joines]

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: amarok changing timestamps on netcasts
From: Michael Hirsch <mdhirsch at gmail.com>
To: Kubuntu user technical support <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Date: 2011.10.03.Mon.16:43:39
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Jason Paul Joines <jason at joines.org 
> <mailto:jason at joines.org>> wrote:
>
>     -------- Original Message --------
>     Subject: Re: amarok changing timestamps on netcasts
>     From: Michael Hirsch <mdhirsch at gmail.com <mailto:mdhirsch at gmail.com>>
>     To: Kubuntu user technical support <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
>     <mailto:kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>>
>     Date: 2011.09.26.Mon.11:28:06
>
>
>         On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 7:30 PM, Jason Paul Joines
>         <jason at joines.org <mailto:jason at joines.org>
>         <mailto:jason at joines.org <mailto:jason at joines.org>>> wrote:
>
>               I'm using Amarok 2.4.0 wind KDE 4.6.2 on Kubuntu 11.04.
>
>               By default Amarok stores netcasts I download in
>            ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok/podcasts/NAME-of-NETCAST.  For some
>            reason, it changes the timestamp on some of the saved files
>         every
>            day.  This results in my backups picking them up every day.
>          All
>            of the files dated "2011-09-15 19:25" in this list had their
>            timestamps updated at the same time for no apparent reason even
>            though most of them were downloaded weeks or months ago.
>          Any ideas?
>
>         Are you sure that amarok isn't downloading them every time?
>
>         Michael
>
>
>
>        Now that's a good question but I'm not quite sure how to figure
>     it out.  Amarok has marked these episodes as downloaded already so
>     I don't know why it would download them again.  If I understand
>     this output correctly, I downloaded the file on the 20th and the
>     time stamp was changed for no apparent reason today but the file
>     is still 6 days old and not a new file.  Also, I manually download
>     these files via a secondary-click in Amarok.  Amarok is configured
>     to automatically scan for updates to this netcast but not to
>     download them.
>
>     ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok/podcasts/Global News$ stat
>     globalnews_20110920-1559a.mp3
>      File: `globalnews_20110920-1559a.mp3'
>      Size: 12350125        Blocks: 24128      IO Block: 4096   regular
>     file
>     Device: 804h/2052d      Inode: 13371644    Links: 1
>     Access: (0660/-rw-rw----)  Uid: ( 1000/   jason)   Gid: ( 1000/  
>     jason)
>     Access: 2011-09-20 16:25:28.835232044 -0500
>     Modify: 2011-09-26 17:04:58.209045046 -0500
>     Change: 2011-09-26 17:04:58.209045046 -0500
>     ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok/podcasts/Global News$
>
> Hmm.  Has the md5sum changed?  It's possible that the file has changed 
> on the server, though unlikely.
>
> You can also look at how many bytes get transfered.  "ifconfig eth0" 
> tells you how many bytes have been transmitted and received.  If you 
> run it before and after, while doing nothing else, you should get a 
> rough count of home many bytes really were received.  If this is less 
> than the file size the it didn't really download the file.
>
> Michael



     I'll check the md5sums.

     I can't use the bytes from ifconfig though.  I have no idea when 
Amarok will change the time stamps, it's not the same time every day, 
and there's a lot of network use other than Amarok.


Jason
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