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*

If you can use Firefox

[(Anonymous)]

...right-click on any empty space on the page, click "View Page Source". Click on the "Media" tab, then find the link you want to dl in the "Address" box. Highlight the link & hit "Save as". Hope this helps.

lucciolia

[mad_maudlin]

I know nothing about music or Macs, but I wanted to share this--maybe it'll help you destress.

I was out shopping with my mom today and we passed a Walgreen's with a sign out front advertising its specials. One of the lines read "WG ICE CREAM 2/5.00". My first thought was: the Guru has his own line of ice cream?

[idlerat.livejournal.com]

I occasionally have this problem, though never with ysi or rapidshare. I've always assumed it was that the site had been set up not to permit d/l.

You can easily d/l firefox, btw- it's excellent.

[prillalar]

You might be able to change things in the prefs. For example, in Firefox, in the prefs, under Downloads, you can specify how the browser handles various file types.

This might help more, though:

http://www.shauninman.com/plete/2004/05/a-few-favelets

I think I shall blog about these, as they are very useful.\

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