So, in many parts of the world, internet is still not that fast yest. South Africa is one of those places (unless you're willing to pay BIG bucks).

I don't mind letting a download run overnight, but can CW seriously not come up with a download manager that handles things like Pause and PC restarts properly? That should go for the 3d party add-ons like Addictive Drums too. I just had to restart my PC and lost 3/4 of the Addictive Drums download. One would think they could at least have the sort of system in place that saves what has already been downloaded..
 
Just a thought.
 
L.

FDM will do what you want. Of course, the servers have to be able to restart downloads, most do.

You can also get an add-on for Firefox called DownloadThemAll. It works great.
 
Scott

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Internet Download Manager (IDM) has been doing a fine job for me.

garrigus
You can also get an add-on for Firefox called DownloadThemAll. It works great.

good experience with this one :)

FDM , again..
 
you can schedule it to download overnight and it'll even switch off the pc when it's done..
 
cakes servers support result and multi threads, so I'll use that over any browser.
 
(apart from certain companies who have a counter and count multi-threads as a download attempt.. e.g. loopmasters)
 
 

Thanks for the feedback. We will keep that in mind for future releases.

steam distribution would solve this ;-)

Thanks guys, but 3d party downloads like XLN use their own system, and that is a particularly crappy one. I believe Cakewalk should standardise anything they "deploy" in terms of delivery system, even 3d party stuff. It would make it a far smoother process.
 
Just a thought.

I'd rather they spent more time dev'ing the app and not "mucking" about with a downloader for it..
 
fdm does resume / multi thread etc. so why solve a problem that doesn't really exist