News Section
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We are on Patreon
Hello Sownloader Community, We have some exciting news to share! Sownloader is now on Patreon, offering you a direct way to support the project and ensure its continued development. Unlike traditional subscription models, supporting Sownloader on Patreon doesn’t come with exclusive benefits or perks. Instead, it’s a straightforward opportunity for you to contribute to a…
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Update to Raspberry Pi 4
We upgraded from a Raspberry Pi 3 to a Raspberry Pi 4 today. The older Pi is now removed from the network after 8 years. The update should make Sownloader even more stable and faster. There may be some minor downtime under certain circumstances. We apologize for this!
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Sownloader 9 is now available!
The long wait is finally over! Sownloader 9 is out now! With this major update, almost every component of Sownloader has been reworked. You will feel noticeable differences in performance, downloads and stability. The key point of this update is the move to .NET 6, which means we are officially ending support for Windows XP…
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Sownloader Version 9 BETA
As some of you might have noticed, the desktop app has not been working for the last few months because of changes to the Smule website. In addition, the source code for the desktop app was a few years old and needed some major improvements. That’s why it took us so long to update Sownloader…
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MP3 downloads are out of beta
After three long years, MP3 downloads are no longer in beta. With today’s update the last problems with MP3 downloads have been fixed. For many people it was very confusing that the page had previously only loaded forever. Therefore, many aborted the process at this point and started again. From now on, when you click…
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Stability improvements for Sownloader Web
Today we have updated Sownloader Web with various improvements in server stability. Some of you may have noticed that Sownloader does not work all the time. This has todo with DNS caching issues when the domain grabbing server restarts every day. Our server needs some time to update the DNS addresses that are already in…
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Update of Sownloader.com
The Sownloader website was updated today to improve it even further. We have updated all core files to the latest version of PHP 8. In addtion we fixed some minor issues which led to issues with our downloading software. Moreover we have added another error message which gets displayed when a performance was found but…
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Sownloader Development Update – Dezember 2020
In out last blog post, we have shared with you a sneak peak about the upcoming Sownloader Undelete for Windows 10. If you haven’t read this post yet, you can do it right here: https://sownloader.com/news/2020/12/12/sneak-peak-of-sownloader-undelete/ As some of you probably know, Sownloader hasn’t been a web application since the beginning. Originally, Sownloader appeared in 2014…
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Sneak peak of Sownloader Undelete
In todays blog post I want to give you a sneak peak of the upcoming Sownloader Undelete. As some of you might know, deleted performances are not deleted directly. They are restoreable for a limited time until they actually get deleted. A few months ago we hosted a service on Sownloader.com which let the user…
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Upcoming update of Sownloader.com
Hi everyone, Today’s update post goes a bit deeper into the technical direction. A big change for our service is imminent. Since the Sownloader 2014 was released as a webapp, we have constantly added new features to the service. But there was always a problem until now. Due to our server provider we were forced…