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From: "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net>
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Subject: Re: detecting a file in use
Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 18:34:40 +0100
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On 06/11/13 18:12, richard wrote:
> What should be used to know when a request has been made for the server to
> load an audio file?
> As I see it, the server has to know that a request has been made.
>
> You, the user, using your browser, sees a list of songs that you can play.
> You click that link, the browser sends a request to fetch that file.
> This is the point in time when I want to know that the request has been
> made.

three ways to do it

Simple: parse the log file
Medium: use a wrapper file which notify that someone requested a file 
and then serve the file, this can destroy fast 
forward/rewind/pause/resume features.
Complicated: Make the JavaScript to call a page and tell which file the 
user is loading and if they do buffer or not.

> Javascript takes care of the playing side.
> But still, the server has to have some way of knowing which audio file is
> being requested and whether or not buffering is needed.


> Now that the audio file has played, the server needs to know that file has
> completed downloading.
> So what do I use to know this has happened?

If you use wrapper and the page terminates, then it's finished with the 
download. If you use the javascript then make an ajax call and tell that 
the song has finished to play.

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  //Aho