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

Mon Oct 12 03:35:03 UTC 2009

Dear mysteerious and short L.,

Okay, so it's Q instead of C. Blame a lazy jaws user who didn't think to 
check. But I misspoke. I have plenty of albums on my computer from other 
sources, and I know they consist of multiple files for all their tracks, 
plus there's the cover art file, as you say. I used to be able to see 
clearly record album covers and then the cover art in CD packaging, so of 
course I've easily known what that file was, irrelevant and useless though 
it is to me, now.

Anyway, pressing on. Not familiar with much about physics in general, so 
wouldn't have even thought to imagine anything but the unit of measure, you 
see. I think your choice of handle probably works better not only for 
sighted people who see it, but for people better educated in those sciences. 
I mean, I can mention the Heisenbberg Principle but I'm just faking, kind 
of. Or enrico fermi, or particle physics, or whatever. I have little idea 
what I'm talking about when I venture in that direction. Sorry about that. 
I'm sure you must have science geek friends with working eyes who take one 
look at that handle and think, cool. Or something. I'm just the wrong room 
for that joke, as a standup comic might put it.
Femni,enrico aleays couse considt kn
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "qubit" <lauraeaves at yahoo.com>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2009 7:45 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Can't find Amazon mp3 downloaded album on 
myharddrive

Joel -- when you download an album you are not getting a single file, you
are getting all the tracks as separate mp3 files, plus some graphic files
for those interested in visuals.
BTW -- qubit is spelled with a q, not a c -- therefore referring not to an
ancient unit of measure, but a bit in a quantum computer.
I am short, however, so maybe cubit wouldn't be a bad choice either -- if it
isn't too long...
--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 11:20 AM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Can't find Amazon mp3 downloaded album on
myharddrive

What I downloaded may have been a single file originally, but it was not a
single track of one so-called song. It was an album. Meant to create its own
folder where I told it to in the Preferences. By that I mean the preferences
in Amazon downloader. You make no reference to that, so I don't even know if
we're talking about the same sort of mucic downloading procedure, frankly.

And it did not do this. Under which there would appear all the tracks from
this album.

Again, I downloaded an album, not individual track. Also, instructions on
the site told me to run the downloader install, to press run twice in fact,
and not to save that. In another set of instructions, somewhere else  on the
site, it *did* say to save the file and then run it from where you'd put it
on your computer.

contradictory. I went with the first instructions I came upon.

I will have to call the phone number cubit gave me.

thank you very much.
From: "Don Moore" <don.moore48 at comcast.net>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2009 9:03 AM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Can't find Amazon mp3 downloaded album on
myharddrive

If you downloaded the specified file though instead of opening it on the
website like the instructions tell you, the special file rather than the MP3
download will be where your downloads go.  On my system they download into
the music folder in the my documents folder and it sets a special folder
there for Amazon downloads, and, like has been stated, sub folders for the
material you ordered.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "qubit" <lauraeaves at yahoo.com>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2009 8:25 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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