Soundtrack frustration - Mac users, help, help, help

[icarus]

Mac users -- HEEEEEEELLLLLLP!

I'm trying to download music files from RapidShare and Yousendit, and while one of the songs downloaded correctly, the rest of them are now just streaming. They'll play, I can save the link, but that's not what I want. I need to download the entire file.

Hunh? Wha-? I'm generally a PC user and this whole "digital music" miasma is new to me anyways.

Are there some settings that I need to change, somewhere, somehow so the file will download and not stream?

Comments

[quiteserious.livejournal.com]

Mac user, also going "whaaa...?" You might want to try control-click-save-as on the download link, if you haven't already. I assume you're on Panther/Tiger, using Safari? If not, I may be missing something, as I've never used anything older than Panther, and I never use any browser other than Safari on my Mac, because it's just that fabulous. *g*

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Okay, I tried to download it again in Safari.

I got the same streaming -- only this time a Quicktime plug-in prompted me for my connection speed. *scratches head* I don't want to run these music files in Quicktime. Or any other streaming program, I want to download them.

I'm going to try to Save As first now, see if that helps....

Icarus

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Same thing.

It's not a problem with either Rapidshare or Yousendit, because I tested a mp3 I was emailed.

The weird part is that it worked great with the first song I downloaded. Perhaps a program I have open is messing this up. I do have Fetch open.

I'll close things and see what happens. *puzzled and --gah*

Icarus