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

Mon Oct 12 02:39:25 UTC 2009

Hi Joel --
Yes, I am Laura aka tribble aka qubit aka lee the flea (skype display name). 
I never settle down to one nick because I can't seem to think of one that I 
really like -- and if I do like it I find other people might draw a meaning 
from it that I don't want to convey...
Anyway, to check that my album songs were downloading, I didn't do anything 
mysterious -- I just opened windows explorer and navigated to the target 
folder and waited for the files to appear.  I'm not the jaws power user you 
imagined.  I learn new features only as I run into situations where I need 
them, and sometimes I find workarounds then.
Good luck getting your tunes.  It is good that you are calling the support 
number soon after the fact as you don't want to be charged twice for the 
same songs.
--le

----- 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 10:58 AM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Can't find Amazon mp3 downloaded album on 
myharddrive

cubit, ,
btw, if L. still indicates the "Laura" which you stylishly decline to type
in full, is it the same L. that once was Tribble ? Just trying to get it
right .
Yes, I searched everywhere you mentioned. I have found nothing at all like
what you described.

and yes, I once ordered a single tune from Amazon but downloaded it without
benefit of the downloader, just like an ordinary file, and directed to go
exactly where I wanted it, and everything went fine. It was a file, it was
in a folder I'd chosen for it, and when I pressed enter on it Winamp was
launched and I could play it.

You say you follow the download so you can see each tune happening? Well, I
know how to follow a regular IE download by reading the dialogue using the
Jaws key, but that doesn't show me individual parts of the download, like
individual track names of an album. You must be following the download in
some way I can't even imagine that involves being able to locate some screen
that's in your system tray in some information bubble or whatever it's
called. You are apparently something of an expert here, and I mean a screen
reader expert type, where this is concerned. None of these things are easy
to find with Jaws, not for me.
Well, I have no ITunes, but I do have WMP 11, so I unchecked that box and
left the do nothing option. Thinking that would make sure I got something
simple right in a folder on my hard drive that I could navigate  to in
Windows Explorer and find the files and play them, one by one.

but no such luck .

I'll call the phone number. Thank you for it. When I have enough coffee
inside me and am recovered from bumbling around last night with this. big
time waster, the so-called learning curve. I just really annoyed an
frustrated. I've got work to do. I just wanted to hear this music.\

Thanks,
Joel

B8it a filedoudicreddirect4ea----- 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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