Originally Posted by cityguy

it's no use in attempting a retry so going into a resumable status makes sense rather than continuously trying to download a segment that will fail time after time.

When a link is in the "customer input error" state then it should be retried with ever increasing intervals. In another discussion drbits proposed the Fibonacci series.

I wouldn't like to come back to my computer and see hundreds of open dialogues. A program should understand by itself that no human being is responding and adapt to that situation.

Being busy doing other thing near the PC, and on the second monitor, it could be nice to have an option to hear a bip sound when been asked to fill Captcha window (hotfile, Fileserve...).
Thanks.
Well done application!!

There are other threads discussing the requirement.

Please read "Option for sound alert whenever the captcha has to be manually entered by the user".

Well, my birthday is in 2 months - so, you better add a sound option until then ... or else!

Hi there!

A very simple and useful request.

Can we make a song like "DING!" when the captcha recognition window opens?

We usually run this thing on the background, and usually miss the captcha recognition window when it pops open!

So a "DING" or any other customizable sound would be extremely useful!

Thx!
-Kor

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@Kor770
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GreeZ pspzockerscene

Hello,

I think if are possible add alert sounds for the next events:

1-When JD request write a captcha
2-When JD finish all downloads.
3-When downloads stooped.

In other versions this are possible to set and enable or disable this feature, but in actually version no exist this feature.

Goodbye and health

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Merged sound alert threads again!

GreeZ pspzockerscene

Thanks for all the good work you do every day. I hope your stock of Mentos is large enough.

Hi, lately sites like hotfile will ask you for recaptcha after downloading a part. It would be great if there is an option which would play a sound to notify us (when we're away) so that we can get back and handle the recaptcha and then get away again without waiting. Thanks in advance.

[drbits]

I have decided sleep is more important than catching every Captcha challenge right away.

@sdugol

"When we're away"... I think it would be better to receive a text message, otherwise you'll have to make that sound very very loud and other people will complain.

[drbits]

On a more serious note. This has been requested by several users.

One of the major improvements planned for JDownloader is an "Event Manager". This is a way to detect changes in the program and request one or more actions. One of the actions available will be playing a wav file. This will give you an ability to play a sound when a Captcha pops up.

Excellent idea Remi. How about a MMS with the captcha sent our mobile phone, and we can reply via email. JD checks a special POP3 account 60 seconds after it sends out the captcha, to see if we've responded.

RockinJD

[drbits]

That is an interesting addon proposal. The phone number or e-mail account of the phone, prompt, waiting time, and email account to check would all be parameters.

You could write a notification addon that allows the user to select sound, screen flashes, SMTP, or MMS (that part you can probably get from other open source programs). Sending the prompt and image would be new code, and then checking for the POP3 response might be new code.

Suggestion, include a unique response code in the header and require the first line of the message body be exactly the response (possibly followed by a newline). You might need an option for the number of lines to skip to support poorly written mail programs.

The notification addon could have several named "instances", some could just notify, some should wait for a response.

Yes, we should investigate all the possibilities.

In case I'm not responding in time to the captcha MMS, the next try should be sent to my aunt Rema who has more time. The only problem is that she doesn't have a computer. She would then call my little niece Irma who would then send the e-mail to my account.

An alternative for e-mail would be to use the remote interface to jD, but extended with captcha responses.

Wouldn't the easiest solution for such customers be to run jD on their smartphone? Most smartphones support Java. Communication would be a little expensive, but for small files this wouldn't be an obstacle I suppose. This would be a really 'portable' solution for jD.

:unsure: Sorry if my English is not correct but I am using a translator so that I understand.

:thumbup: This topic so I started Spanish Forum and advised me this forum.

:unsure: A way that jdownloader with a beep alert you when you are asked a captcha that can't be resolved automatically is there.

:) A beep when order you a capcha that can't be resolved automatically allow you to do other things away from the PC.

Forgiveness stop not SAP that Dahr already be me avía developed at the suggestion...

Same applies to take into account......

[drbits]

I would just look at how some antivirus programs specify notification and copy one of them.

I don't understand your second post at all, but your first post contains a request/suggestion that has been expressed many times on this board.

I think it will come when Feature #174 : Eventmanager Rewrite is done.

Please also read "Option for sound alert whenever the captcha has to be manually entered by the user".