[gui-talk] Can't find Amazon mp3 downloaded album on my harddrive

[Joel Deutsch]

P.S. to L.,

what you're referring to as the "root directorey " alternatively as "the 
"root" directory, well, that's not correct. The root directory of a hard 
drive, and this is really an old DOS-type expression from before the 
language of "folder" and "subfolder," by wich the industry was trying to 
establish a more "user-friendly and familiar metaphorical nomenclature 
meant to comfortably recall physical file cabinets and their contents, means 
the basic C:/ directory, under which most of what are now called subfolder 
and subfolders of subfolders reside.

so there is not anything here related to the "root directory" where Amazon 
wants to put these downloads. its default, according to what I've hread in 
their instructions, is under c/documents and settings\admin\my documents\my 
music. Under which, by default in Windows, there's an mp3 folder. Which in 
my case is empty. I've got a bunch of music files, but this isn't where I 
keep them.

The reason, again, being that I like to access them myself and play them; 
that default docation I laid out above is where a service llike Amazon wants 
to put them because it assumes you're gonna access the music from a playlist 
in your Windows media player or via ITunes. Which I do not want to do.

Anyway, the phrase "root directory" has nothing to do with this. Thanks. 
Sorry.
directoty ,reas Wirdniary hopeuflly i----- Original Message ----- 
From: "qubit" <lauraeaves at yahoo.com>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2009 5:25 AM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Can't find Amazon mp3 downloaded album on my 
harddrive


Joel, I am an mp3 shopper on amazon and have bought albums. The thing about
the downloader is that it downloads in the background while you do other
things. i tend to be impatient and sit and watch them, as I want to be sure
to get all the tracks.
As for destination, I have never changed the default dir for downloaded
files. However, in the default root directory where the downloader puts the
mp3s, there are subfolders for artists and then subfolders of that for
albums.  Did you search deeply in your folders? (that is, both in your
specified folder and in the default) Have you ordered individual mp3s from
amazon?
Good luck. There is a number you can call for problems specifically for mp3
downloads on amazon. It is
1-888-802-3083
Enjoy.
--le


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joel Deutsch" <jdeutsch at dslextreme.com>
To: "GUI-Talk" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2009 12:29 AM
Subject: [gui-talk] Can't find Amazon mp3 downloaded album on my hard drive


For the first time, I purchased a digital album from Amazon today. I had to
download and install the Amazon mp3 Downloader, which I did successfully,
and then I bought the album and I guess it downloaded, though I didn't see
any sort of dialogue on the screen (I'm partial).

Now, before I say more, let me say that before I made this purchase, I went
into the amazon mp3 downloader Preferences and changed two things:

1. I changed the download destination from their default, which is a sub sub
sub directory under Documents and Setting/Admin blah blah blah, to a simple
folder that I'd created on my hard drive, called c:/my music. This isn't the
"my music" folder that I've noticed up above the C drive under My documents,
whatever all that's about. I don't go up there (I use Windows Explorer and
that's why I think of it as "up there") and have no idea what that stuff is.
This is Win XP Home, by the way.

Now, I've gone into my account on Amazon and looked up my recent purchase
history specifically of digital downloads. And there it is, a record of my
having downloeded this album, with all its tracks listed. A fait accomplis,
it would seem.

but no, I can't find the album, its tracks, or the folder Amazon mp3
anywhere on my hard drive, including under c:/my music. Huh? I've looked and
look, using the Search. No luck at all.

BTW, the other item I changed in Preferences was to disable the option of
having the downloader put such files into my Windows Media Player playlist
or library or hwatever that is. I don't know how to use that sort of thing.
I just wanted to find the files themselves in a folder, click on them, and
play them in Winamp.

To anyone for whom the above is clear, can you advise?as I say, the record
at the Amazon site confirms that I've downloaded this material, but I can't
find it on my computer, no way.

Help me before I lose my mind. I mean the rest of my mind. It's only a few
bucks, but I really wanted to listen to the album.

thanks. Hope I made good enough sense here.

Joel


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