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Asked: 2026-05-17T22:38:46+00:00

I’m researching solutions for a potential client. They’re requesting the ability to download a

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I’m researching solutions for a potential client. They’re requesting the ability to download a large amount of MP3’s (1000+) from their online catalog.

I’ve researched/tested building a zip containing all MP3s using ZipArchive but ran into obvious memory leak issues that have ruled that solution out.

I’m now trying to think out of the box.

One idea was to create an FTP queue or a Torrent type download link for them. Is there anything out there that can pull something like this off?

Any help or suggested direction would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!!

Edit: Here is the overall process/goal that we’re trying to achieve.

The client creates music for TV/Flim placement. They maintain a online catalog AND a local copy they send to potential buyers. The online catalog and the offline catalog need to mirror each other. Problem being, they have multiple offices that will have to update their local copy with the new files added to the online catalog from many different locations

Example: East Coast User updates catalog with 100 new files. West Coast User needs to update the offline catalog with the new files retrieved from the online catalog.

We had hoped to create custom zip’s of the files each user needed to update their catalog based on the user’s download history that we’d maintain in MySQL. We were testing ZipArchive but we couldn’t seem to build Zips over 175 MEG (give or take). We’re in the process of testing ZipStreaming but are having some issues.

I hope this clears up the overall goal and problems we are facing.

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  1. Editorial Team

    GNU wget?
    It can download recursive. Just give wget a list of all files on the server, e.G.
    http://www.example.org/filelist.html which contains links like file1.mp3, file2.mp3 etc (apache normally generates such an index file automatically wenn a directory without index.html/php in it gets called.

    http://linux.die.net/man/1/wget

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