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

[Jim Fettgather]

I had a similar experience when i first tried to use the Amazon MP3 
downloader.
What I had first failed to notice upon attempting to purchase an album was 
that the Internet Explorer information bar had appeared, effectively 
blocking the download. I had to press the spacebar and choose download from 
the resulting menu.

Then, a new dialog appears, from which you can choose open or save.  And, 
this is very important, you much choose open and not save.

While the tracks are being downloaded, you can very conveniently look in 
the System Tray and the status of all of the tracks is very clearly 
displayed as they are being downloaded and added to either the Windows Media 
Player library or Itunes, which ever you have chosen in preferences.

I lost an entire album when I one time got the Thank you confirmation of 
purchase page, but had neglected to respond to the infromation bar request.

I was able to write to customer support and got the chance to download the 
album again.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joel Deutsch" <jdeutsch at dslextreme.com>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2009 11:51 AM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Can't find Amazon mp3 downloaded album on 
myharddrive


> It seemed to me that the updloader downloaded and isntalled. I cal find it
> right here under my start/programs menus. As I've said. And the Amazon 
> site
> under my account reports these files as all downloaded. From their side it
> looks as if I've been successful. But I can't find the music anywhere on 
> my
> computer.
>
> What do you mean by that dsentence including the word "kinks?" I don't
> understand what you mean by that sentence.
>
> Thank you very much.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Tai Blas" <taiablas at gmail.com>
> To: "'NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List'" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2009 8:39 AM
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Can't find Amazon mp3 downloaded album on my
> harddrive
>
>
> When you purchased the album, did you get a download dialog box asking
> whether you wanted to open or save the download? If not, there was a link
> that said to click it if your download did not begin. If you did get the
> dialog asking you to chose to open or save, you need to choose open 
> instead
> of save. This activates the amazon mp3 downloader and begins your download
> in the background. If you cannot download the file, find out the kink to
> contact amazon and you can have amazon call you at the number you specify.
> Their mp3 downloads department can then allow you to redownload your
> purchased tracks.
> HTH
> Tai
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Joel Deutsch
> Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2009 12:29 AM
> To: GUI-Talk
> 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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