Category: accessible Devices
Okay, I know how to get songs from the my music folder to my mp3 player since I ripped a couple of cd's of mine and then picked certain songs from those.
How do you get songs off the internet to the player?
I've tried Itunes, Emusic, raphsody, and aolmusic. I can get the tracks to play on my computer, but when I search for the track or title in the my music file or my downloads, can't find it.
Also have used windows media player 11 and just installed latest winamp 5.571 onto computer. Most people here seem to use winamp so are you using the light version or the standard which are both free.
I signed up for a couple of free trials to try to figure this out.
Also how do you maneuver around with a screen reader and I'm using jaws 9 in the winamp program. Windows media player seems easier. Real player I won't even recommend.
Any help with moving files from internet to player and the winamp program would really be appreciated!
Okay, I use Windows Media Player, so I'm not sure how helpful this will be, but I'll do my best. First, save your songs when you're downloading them to My Music. When you want to sync songs to the player, go to Windows Media Player. press the Sync button. if you tab, you should hear the names of the buttons. next, you can either create a playlist, or just add songs to your player. Here's how I do it. Plug in your player either before or after you've opened WMP (windows media player). AFter you've hit the sync button, tab down until after you hear library. using your up/down arrows, you should find a list that says artist, songs genres ETC. I always hit artist. press tab and you can then use your arrows to scroll through the artist names. Pick one say the beatles for example. press enter and then you should find a list of songs. If the list doesn't read, hold down the shift key and the down or up arrow. it might say "selected", but I'm not sure about that. once you're ona song that you want, press the applications button. there should be an option that says sync to player, or something like that. press enter. you'll end back up on your artist section, so just repeat the process with all the artists you want. when you're finished, press tab a couple of times and you'll end up on your sync list. arrow through it, to make sure that you haven't repeated any songs. then, hit tab to hear start sync. press enter and voila. This should work. If it doesn't work, let me know. HTH. To see what songs are on yor player, go to my computer, and if your mp3 player's plugged in, you should be able to find a music folder with artist and sonng labels. Each player's different, so just use your tab and arrow keys to explore.
I prefer wmp since its fairly easy to use. This is what I used when I ripped some cd's of mine and then I just copied the tracks I wanted to my player.
My problem is how do you save songs that you are downloading?
I'll try to explain.
Say you click on the artist you want and for example I'll use your Beetles, then a list of their albums comes up. That part seems to be the same no matter what internet music service your using. You pick an album and it opens and either you can hit the download for the entire album or pick a track.
I also tried this with single tracks like most music services have a free mp3 of the day.
My problem is that I think its downloading and when I hit download, the song plays. However, when I look for the song/artist in wmp, my music folder, or removable drive G which is my mp3 player, no sign of it.
What am I doing wrong?
How do I get the song to download to my player/wmp/my music folder or anywhere?
I always thought downloads ask you wether to run or save the item. At least that's how it works with documents or aplication software programs or games.
This asks me nothing, but plays the song selected.
Do I need to reset something in the download manager?
Please help!
Chastity
When you are in a web page you may need to right click on the link with the song name (on your numeric keypad on a desktop it'd be the third button from the left in the top row), then you should get a list of options with "save as" as one of the options. Hit enter on that and it'll give you the typical file -> save, dialog box where you can choose folder and filename.
It depends on what the default action of the enter key on the web page is programmed to be. Usually for files it opens up the file -> save, dialog box but with music service I imagine its defaul action is to stream the file so it plays on your computer but it is not saved there. With the right click description you should always be able to save the file if it is downloadable. Some files are configured so that you can only stream them, not save them, and then you'd have to caputer the filestream with a different software, which is more bothersome.
At that point some peoploe would just turn to filesharing, torrents and so on, since it is not legal I won't describe how it is done unless you specifically ask, and then with the disclaimer that no copyrighted aterial should be downloaded, of course., but it is up to you what you do with such information.
After an mp3 file is downloaded you just copy and paste it onto your mp3 player, provided you do not have an IPod, in which case you have to go through ITunes.
Mind you some files purchased through download services have drm, digital rights management, so they can only be played one one or two devices and the player might not play them. That's why I hate buying music and I do not unless it is simple mp3 format.
Some players do not play flac, ogg and wma (windows media audio) files, though most players should be updated to play these by now, also m4a doesnot play on all players (the ITunes format).
You have to check with your player what format it plays and possibly upgrade the firmware for it.
Cheers
-B
This is helpful and I'll give it a try. No, I don't have an Ipod. Mine is a player probably few people have heard of, a Nextar. My mom knows the brand as they used to be heavily associated with NASA and computer interfaces and stuff like that. Mine does support wma, mp3, mp4 and some audio book formats, but not daisy. I hope this works as it's getting really frustrating. As for paying for music, I am not currently as I have a 2 week trial period, but it this works I might keep it as its .50 per song instead of the 99 cents most others charge. Currently, I'm just working with the free mp3 of the day since most services offer that one song for free and right now I don't care what it is or who its by as long as I can figure out this download and saving thing.
To the best of my knowledge all music is now DRM free. Amazon, Walmart, and yes! ITunes.
On eMusic if you hit download it should download to my eMusic, which is on your desktop assuming you've installed the download manager. If you go to that folder beforehand and keep checking, you'll know when the track is there.