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Question on this - pardon my ignorance

There are loads of albums that I can/want to download but they save as a blank program file - as in I must open with another program. I have tried to save the files as a Media Player file so I can import them into Itunes but its not working.

Any suggestions?
Step by step please

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This is an hilarious thread.

“Help. I can’t use a computer” ha ha. Luckily I’m a tech buff.

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[quote=“farmerinthecity”]Question on this - pardon my ignorance

There are loads of albums that I can/want to download but they save as a blank program file - as in I must open with another program. I have tried to save the files as a Media Player file so I can import them into Itunes but its not working.

Any suggestions?
Step by step please[/quote]

Can you give an example. Maybe they’re Zip or WinRar files? Do they end in .zip or .rar or anything like that? Probably need to get winrar to extract them at a guess, which you should get anyway - fairly essential tool to have.

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.rar is the one

Just a matter of downloading winrar I presume.

Good
Thanks

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http://rs154.rapidshare.com/files/56209910/The_Divine_Comedy__1994__Promenade.rar

This is the link for Promenade by The Divine Comedy. Superb album - can’t recommend it highly enough

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Great pun there Farmer.

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[quote=“farmerinthecity”]http://rs154.rapidshare.com/files/56209910/The_Divine_Comedy__1994__Promenade.rar

This is the link for Promenade by The Divine Comedy. Superb album - can’t recommend it highly enough[/quote]

Download didn’t work for some reason for me. Wouldn’t let me play the album after I downloaded it.

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I am still in the process of downloading it - hopefully it works

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That worked for me. Unfortunately there were a few issues with it:

The songs uploaded on the ipod all out of order. The correct order of songs is:

Bath
Going downhill fast
The booklovers
The seafood song
Geronimo
Don’t look down
When the lights go out all over Europe
The summerhouse
Neptune’s daughter
The drinking song
Ten seconds to midnight
Tonight we fly

It’s vital that when you are listening to it you listen to them in more or less that order, particularly the last 2 songs last because one leads into the other and it talks about what has gone before on the album.

Also it is a weird version of The booklovers which I have never heard before. The version I know basically lists authors the same way thay A House listed artists in Endless Art. This version is mainly instrumental so may there was some issue with Hannon ripping them off which, let’s face it, he did.

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‘Finding Forever’ by Common is worth a listen.

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How to find mp3’s just using google

Right this is a long-winded guide that I’m stealing and paraphrasing in here. Note that you can skip to the very last step if you don’t want to read how everything is done, but it relies on an external website. If you follow all the steps in between then you can use it independently of that other site, and you may even learn a couple of things.

I haven’t used inverted commas below because they’re needed in the guide iteself so anywhere I’ve used bold is a direct input into google.

  1. Go to google

  2. Type in intitle:“index.of” This searches for files that are stored in a directory, as opposed to looking for certain web pages. i.e. it looks for files, not webpages

  3. Then type in the type of file(s) you’re searching for in brackets, separated by a | so it looks like intitle:“index.of” (mp3|wma|mp4|avi)

  4. Type the name of the song you’re searching for separted by full stops instead of spaces. So for Running to Stand Still you’d now have: intitle:“index.of” (mp3|wma|mp4|avi) running.to.stand.still

  5. To avoid most spam and other useless results you need to specifically exclude normal webpage extensions so you’re left with just files. To do this you type a minus sign and then the standard extensions like htm etc. So now you have in google:
    intitle:“index.of” (mp3|wma|mp4|avi) running.to.stand.still -html -htm -jsp -php -asp

  6. Firefox only: To shorten all these steps in the future, highlight the address of the Google Results page [http://www.google.ie/search?hl=en&q=intitle%3A%22index.of%22+%28mp3%7Cwma%7Cmp4%7Cavi%29+running.to.stand.still±html±htm±jsp±php±asp&btnG=Search&meta=] and hit Ctrl+C to copy to clipboard. Then hit Ctrl+B to bring up the bookmarks menu and right click and choose “Add new Bookmark”

  7. Give it a name and add a keyword, in this case “Musik”

  8. Paste the search string you had copied into the Location line and then go to the part of that text where you entered the song name running.to.stand.still in the example above. Replace that part of the location with the characters: %S

  9. Type as an example Musik running.to.stand.still into google and you should now get the same results without any of the long-winded steps above.

  10. To avoid all that just go to this site and type in the name of any song to find downloads for it. Handy for finding the odd song.

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Giving this thread a bump after discussions with Bandage yesterday.

http://bootlegsfrombucklberry.blogspot.com/
good selection of live and rare sort of indie sort of stuff. Have to download one or two tracks separately each time but it’s not much hassle at all.

http://indiepassion.blogspot.com/
This site is equally excellent. A load of quality stuff on there.

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[quote=“therock67”]How to find mp3’s just using google

Right this is a long-winded guide that I’m stealing and paraphrasing in here. Note that you can skip to the very last step if you don’t want to read how everything is done, but it relies on an external website. If you follow all the steps in between then you can use it independently of that other site, and you may even learn a couple of things.

I haven’t used inverted commas below because they’re needed in the guide iteself so anywhere I’ve used bold is a direct input into google.

  1. Go to google

  2. Type in intitle:“index.of” This searches for files that are stored in a directory, as opposed to looking for certain web pages. i.e. it looks for files, not webpages

  3. Then type in the type of file(s) you’re searching for in brackets, separated by a | so it looks like intitle:“index.of” (mp3|wma|mp4|avi)

  4. Type the name of the song you’re searching for separted by full stops instead of spaces. So for Running to Stand Still you’d now have: intitle:“index.of” (mp3|wma|mp4|avi) running.to.stand.still

  5. To avoid most spam and other useless results you need to specifically exclude normal webpage extensions so you’re left with just files. To do this you type a minus sign and then the standard extensions like htm etc. So now you have in google:
    intitle:“index.of” (mp3|wma|mp4|avi) running.to.stand.still -html -htm -jsp -php -asp

  6. Firefox only: To shorten all these steps in the future, highlight the address of the Google Results page [http://www.google.ie/search?hl=en&q=intitle%3A%22index.of%22+%28mp3%7Cwma%7Cmp4%7Cavi%29+running.to.stand.still±html±htm±jsp±php±asp&btnG=Search&meta=] and hit Ctrl+C to copy to clipboard. Then hit Ctrl+B to bring up the bookmarks menu and right click and choose “Add new Bookmark”

  7. Give it a name and add a keyword, in this case “Musik”

  8. Paste the search string you had copied into the Location line and then go to the part of that text where you entered the song name running.to.stand.still in the example above. Replace that part of the location with the characters: %S

  9. Type as an example Musik running.to.stand.still into google and you should now get the same results without any of the long-winded steps above.

  10. To avoid all that just go to this site and type in the name of any song to find downloads for it. Handy for finding the odd song.[/quote]
    or alternatively just google the name of the band and album you are looking for and put torrent afterwards

e.g the divine comedy fin de siecle torrent

and bob’s yer uncle

edit: you will alao need bittorrent or vuze to do this

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The instructions are how to find individual songs Art. You’re not going to find them on torrents.

Anyway certain people have a phobia about torrents so this is just a place to find downloads for blogs. Advantages being they point you to albums you might not have searched for yourself in the first place.

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Pretty mediocre by his standards. Everything he has done since Like Water For Chocolate has been unremarkable.

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I got myself an i pod there recently, had a creative yoke before.

I am also a retard when it comes to tech stuff.

Two questions

Is there any problem with two people using the same Itunes for two different i pods. I have a vague idea that if you plugged your i pod into someone elses computer it would wipe your songs or something??

Is it possible to transfer all my songs from the creative media source player onto itunes??

thanks

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[quote=“dancarter”]I got myself an i pod there recently, had a creative yoke before.

I am also a retard when it comes to tech stuff.

Two questions

Is there any problem with two people using the same Itunes for two different i pods. I have a vague idea that if you plugged your i pod into someone elses computer it would wipe your songs or something??

Is it possible to transfer all my songs from the creative media source player onto itunes??

thanks[/quote]

  1. That used to be a problem when they had to synchronise your itunes with your player automatically. Pretty certain it’s sorted now but I detest itunes so I’ve never checked it out. (If Microsoft came up with a product like that they’d be taken to court).

  2. Yeah it should be possible. If they’re saved as WMA files it may take a long time to convert them. If they’re standard MP3 files then it’s just a matter of importing them by importing whatever folder you have them saved in.

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Cheers rock.

Anyone know if you can buy tv series/movies etc from iTunes? Manual for the ipod indicates you can but cant see any link for it on the itunes store

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You have to change your store location away from Ireland to the US, you’ll see them there, but I don’t know if they have the licensing sorted out over here yet though

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cool thanks, is that easy to do? I assume if I change the location I can buy the stuff and take my chances with the licencing!