Downloading songs off websites with a Mac

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Does anyone know how to do this? I can't figure it out for the life of me, it just opens to a quicktime type page that allows me to play it streaming or whathaveyou. I know its possible because I managed to do it accidently once. There must be some complicated button pressing involved. Please advise.

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Thursday, 11 March 2004 05:07 (twenty-two years ago)

What's your browser software?

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Thursday, 11 March 2004 05:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Safari

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Thursday, 11 March 2004 05:25 (twenty-two years ago)

It's easy -- hold down the control key while clicking on the link and select 'Download link to disk.'

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 11 March 2004 05:30 (twenty-two years ago)

xpost, so ... same as in Explorer

Hmm, then I'm not sure. On Explorer you can click the link and keep the mouse button pressed (or just ctrl-click) and you get a contextual menu with "download to disk" as one of the options

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Thursday, 11 March 2004 05:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Well I never claimed to be intelligent. I know I did some which I thought was 'download to disk' and it just downloaded a link to the website, so I thought thats what that did. Clearly I was wrong!

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Thursday, 11 March 2004 05:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey, guess what? Why don't you try and practice by getting this amazing German early 80s band, Dschinghis Khan's wave files from this web site:

http://www.menet.umn.edu/~gladkov/music/dschinghis_khan.htm

― A Nairn (moretap), Thursday, 11 March 2004 06:14 (twenty-two years ago)

you just drag the link to your desktop. that's how i do it and it works.

― jesus nathalie (nathalie), Thursday, 11 March 2004 08:20 (twenty-two years ago)

limewire

― lukey (Lukey G), Thursday, 11 March 2004 13:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Control key works for me.

Also: Azareus for Bit Torrent; Thoth / MTNW for news; Limewire / Poisoned for P2P.

― subgenius (subgenius), Thursday, 11 March 2004 15:40 (twenty-two years ago)

RTFM, dude. Oh, wait, yer a Mac user...

― scottontharox (scottkundla), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 07:36 (twenty-two years ago)

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