MP3 woes was: Re: [Pan-users] PAN best newsreader under Linux but ...

[Ade]

Carl,
thanks for replying, 
On Tuesday 31 Dec 2002 2:01 pm, you wrote:
> On Tuesday 31 December 2002 06:17, Ade wrote:
> > I'm trying to access MP3 files from alt.binaries.sounds.* and am
> > finding it difficult.  I've worked out that you have to select "Don't
> > save attachments" for pan to save the attachments but I'm not sure how
>
>       That sounds perverse!  ;)  

Tell me about it!  It was a tip I picked up from a web page and it worked for 
me.  Until then I hadn't been able to save anything!  This is an extremely 
odd program, normally I can just figure out how programs work without 
resorting to doc but PAN has got me stumped.


>Are you sure the post you're trying to get is
> complete?  (Green puzzle-piece next to the header, indicating that Pan
> has seen headers for all the multiple parts.)
>
No, I haven't been able to learn what all the symbols mean yet.  Is it 
documented somewhere.  Currently I have:

- white puzzle piece
- green puzzle piece
- red puzzle piece
- red crosses (usually a metaphor for "a bad thing" but I don't know what in 
the context of PAN).
- blue triangle
- green disk platter type thing
- white envelope
- yellow enevelope 

> > to assemble all the parts into one mp3 file.  I tried cat and then
> > downloaded & installed yydecode which produces a short clip of sound.
> > I'm guessing this is the contents of just one of the parts.
>
>       If you must do it this way (the hard way), 

I'd prefer to do it the easy way *please* ;-)  I only did it this way as an 
attempt to get something working because I could see that I had a lot of what 
looked like chunks of data.

>save *all* the pieces into
> the same place and do "yydecode *" -- it should locate the parts and
> decode them properly.  I used to do that for 200MB AVI files, so I know
> it'll work on mp3s.  :)

This is what I did.  The resulting file did produce a sound but only 12 
seconds worth.

>
> > Apologies if I'm being thick but just how do I download useable, entire
> > mp3s from usenet?
> > I'm running pan 0.11.4 on RH7.1.
>
>       I'm assuming you already tried right-clicking on the header of the
> posting that contains the tune you want, and choosing "Save article
> attachment"... it's been a long time since I used 0.11.4, but I thought
> it handled yEnc posts.
>
That was my first try.  Nothing got downloaded, then I discovered the 
perverse trick of unchecking the "save attachments", which got me the chunks.


>       In (more) current versions, that's all you have to do -- click, save,
> and go have some coffee if you're trying to grab a whole movie or
> something.  :)
>

I went for this version because I didn't want to have t upgrade the entire 
world via RPM to get it installed.

I'm clearly misunderstanding  something pretty fundamental here.  Thanks for 
replying and any further help would be much appreciated.

TIA

Ade

> Good luck,