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TheFearDrone	Date: February 22, 2005 @ 4:25 PM It seems my Stats are showing several "Partial" downloads especially in HiFi. Not a big deal, just curious to know what other artists thoughts are on this when/if it happens on their songs.
kingo	Date: February 22, 2005 @ 4:32 PM I rarely pay much attention to the ratio of full/partial downloads; but now that you mentioned it I checked some stuff and there's definitely a big buncha partials. More partials than fulls, in streaming hi-fi. Though really that's not surprising to me. I expect more partial listens than full listens. Partial downloads confuse me a little more, but perhaps that's a result of people basically streaming the download link to get around the problems some of us have streaming. Just a guess. Though how anybody could listen to your tune partway and not all the way through is totally beyond me.
imemine	Date: February 22, 2005 @ 4:40 PM I guess that most people have little patience these days with so much going on in everyday life. I think that we all have partials---I think. When I set out to go on a listening binge, I set aside the time to listen. I frankly don’t understand it either, I kind of like…………………………
DaveWL	Date: February 22, 2005 @ 6:37 PM Too much dumbing down now days – we've all developed short attention spans.... Sorry what was the question again?
Distilled1	Date: February 22, 2005 @ 7:11 PM So we should all make 30-90 second clips and sell the rest Ya thats the ticket! Do I feel that way NOPE when I listen, I que up a ton for the night, so I have lots of stuff to listen to surfin or workin... My big pet peeve is no tags so if I want to DL the tune I can just do so without having to tag it! I have alot of partial DL's too there are alot of people on dial up still(alot of loss) and the chepo slow broadband that won't let you complete DL's of MP3s... I wouldn't worry too much about it
Veracohr	Date: February 23, 2005 @ 4:01 PM When I see partials on mine, and there's usually more partials than fulls, I generally think that someone listened and just didn't like it. I myself don't listen through an entire song if I really don't like it. It's also possible people may cut off the end if there's an obvious outro and/or some silence at the end before the end of the track.
BOWILLIE	Date: February 23, 2005 @ 7:23 PM i agree with veracohr..iposted this same comment in my journo. does partial hits mean half suck or no? maybe i'll upload half songs and then get full listens..
JudgeMental	Date: February 24, 2005 @ 4:47 AM Could be that some of those streaming get their connections cut midway through listening...people who dont have broadband reckon this happens a lot.

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