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

Sun Oct 11 20:55:12 UTC 2009

For what it's worth, the keystroke to get to the information bar in IE
is alt with N, then a right click of the JAWS mouse button will bring
up a context menu where you can choose to download/download all. I too
have not had any major problems when using the Amazon MP3 store,
except in the beginning when I had to get to the information bar or
when I had to manually start the download process. I've not changed
the default download location for the Amazon tracks, but rather have
gone into the specified folder and copied/moved the tracks to my music
area on my computer. I haven't done anything with the folders of the
artists and albums. Initially I tried to delete them, but after
awhile, didn't worry about this part. I hope you can get this resolved
Joel since Amazon is perhaps one of the few resources that lets you
get unprotected and unrestricted music from. Personally, I refuse to
use iTunes due to it's narcissistic nature, of only allowing certain
kinds of music to be played and only in their own system. Too
restrictive for me. Besides, you can't beat an accessible web
interface. I think the hardest thing of the Amazon store for me was
getting that initial download of the Amazon MP3 Downloader software on
my system. Once there though, it's been extremely easy, especially
when you set and turn on your one click settings on the Amazon site.
this way, once they're setup and your credit card information is
entered, you can just activate the buy track link, and everything
happens in the background.

Good luck,
Wayne

On 10/11/09, Tai Blas <taiablas at gmail.com> wrote:
> Oops, that was supposed to say link. On the amazon contact pages for
> customer service problems, you can have amazon call you back at a specified
> telephone number. Their tech support can allow you to redownload the track.
>
>
> -----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 11:51 AM
> To: NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List
> 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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