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Is there any difference between
1. A media hosted on storage like Azure Blob store/S3
2. A media file hosted by services like SoundCloud or any other service.
Where you can fetch your media contents by APIs.
"Streaming" can be done with any of these file? like playing the media without downloading the whole file?
For features like move fwd/back on the buffer slider, the responsibility lies on the streaming client? Or server or both the ends?
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Difference in what sense? For example there is no difference in terms of the file (content) and storage. But there may be big differences in how the content is served.
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Correct. Just updated the question. Thank you
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1. There is no 'without downloading' - you always download the file, but you may not store it, but process it immediately
2. Streaming - it can be a few different things. For instance the simplest HTTP request can return you a file stream - but if you want to add some 'start at', 'skip to' and other functionalities, you will need more than that... It probably means that a platform built for streaming in mind will better serve you...
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Great! Thanks for the clarification.
So main question is, without the server helping us, just the client code can achieve the fast-fwd, rewind features & mainly without downloading the whole file?
I saw an Android doc that talks about file open type as "MEDIA_STREAM" & it did not talk about the server setup. It looked like it could stream a flat file from storage blobs.
So the confusion.
If I want to set up a streaming feature do I need to work both on client & server side?
Yet another thing in the mix is, I give a flat file URL from storage blobs or any server & Windows media player streams it. (Like without downloading the file & allow us to fast-fwd)
So a bit lost on this topic.
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If you want to create your own streaming server/service, you obviously have to work on the server side (that's why it called server)... On the other end you need something that can talk to that server, so you need to work on the client side too...
There are lot of articles about it (and even some wannabe standard-like approaches), look for them and come back if you have any questions to solve (but go for the programming forums that time)...
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Nowadays you don't need to use RTMP anymore to get streaming, the S3-native HTTP streaming is perfectly fine and enables streaming playback in a simpler way then RTMP. If you are only looking for audio streaming, just putting the files in S3 is sufficient. If you are looking for video you should consider using HLS or MPEG-DASH (again the files are just in S3). If you have many customers combine that with a CloudFront web distribution for better performance. Apart from the simplicity, this does not require proprietary libraries
There you go![^]
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Partial methods. I'll let you do your own research, but I cannot identify a single case where the use of a partial method would be beneficial, desired, or warranted.
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At first glance, it looks they are coming back to the hatred C/C++ header/source file mechanism. 
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CPallini wrote: they are coming back to the hatred rational, sensible, beloved C/C++ header/source file
FTFY
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It's for use in a partial class, so you could declare the partial method in the designer code for a WinForms app for example, and implement it in the user defined code for the same class. The difference is that the method can be called from the designer code because it will compile cleanly.
This is still the case if the implementation of the partial method is never provided: the compiler will remove the partial method and the call to it if the concrete version is not written, and you still won't get a compiler error.
Think of it as a sort-of optional private abstract method and you're about there.
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Right. We use partial classes/methods all the time with EF. You extend and EF entity with extra properties and methods if needed. The entity can change in EF, but the partial class/method remains the same.
Very useful. use it all the time.
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I use it frequently. I find it simpler to use than Interface.
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Where is YAGNI when you need it. Google trends[^] results sort of agree with your feelings, as do I.
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Definitely YAGNI. Will definitely be asked about it in a job interview.
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It's mostly for generated code
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It's still pointless.
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I can't say I have ever found a use for it - although that might be because I didn't know it existed until your post 
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It is most certainly NOT pointless. You just haven't found a use case for it yet.
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The cool thing in the code below is that if you don't define LOGGING, not only does the partial method go away, but any calls to the method are also removed.
#define LOGGING
using System;
namespace PartialMethodTest
{
partial class Foo
{
partial void Log(string msg);
public void DoSomething()
{
Log("Fizbin");
}
}
#if LOGGING
partial class Foo
{
partial void Log(string msg)
{
Console.WriteLine(msg);
}
}
#endif
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
new Foo().DoSomething();
}
}
}
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Quote: but any calls to the method are also removed.
Wouldn't that be disastrous if the method is intended to produce side-effects?
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CPallini wrote: if the method is intended to produce side-effects
If the programmer is a donkey, giving him/her a compiler is disastrous.
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Unless you are haskelling yourself too much, most methods do have side effects.
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"Side" effects are really something that need to be reduced. Methods should have only intended effects and possibly no side effect.
If a method is to be implemented by the user of a class then it is part of the 'contract' to be respected when writing the user component - meaning it's up to the end user (programmer) to implement all the required effects and side effects.
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