Some Lenox Beatmaker guitar samples do not download

I had the same problem as dirtikiti in the post Lenox Beatmaker guitar samples do not download.

This problem has been there for long (version 8 and up at least). It simply dont not work for me to download. My distro version (kubuntu) failed immediately on “Lenox Acoustic” and “Electric Guitar” downloads (and only those) The app downloaded from Ardour always failed after some small percentage (also only on those). Using Wireshark I saw that it failed with multiple "TCP 74 56138 → 443 [RST] Seq=2 Win=0 Len=0. I suspected that that meant some problem with my router so I connected a cable instead. Using cable the download at least runs longer but still fails. My conclusion that it is a router problem but only for some downloads (seems odd though).

I am sure that others encounter this problem so post might give some guidance.

The Electric Guitars (200/300M) no problem downloading.
Negus First Afrobeat (661M) no problem downloading.

Only the Lenox Acoustic Guitar (which is the biggest download of the lot, 755M) fails consitently at 81% or 82% and almost precisely one minute.

I have a reasonable internet-connection (500mb up/down)
Could this be a server-side timeout?

Could be but that does not explain why others, like Negus First Afrobeat, works fine. All electric guitars fail, regardless of size. For me these downloads fail at the exact percentage every time. Some day when I buy a new router I will try again.

But … I think it should be investigated by the Ardour team since it is a feature that fails - works for some but not others.

It could if these samples are downloaded from a different server.

They are all on the same server. I may try tweaking the nginx timeout settings when I have a moment.

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If the download takes longer than 1 min. Ardour will abort the download. This is fixed in upcoming Ardour 9.6

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Ah, I was so focused on the percentage that I didn’t think of the time it took :slight_smile:

I have the same problem in Ardour 9.5, some work, some not.
All Lennox guitar downloads creates 0 Bytes tar.xz files

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