The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #33807   Message #1188142
Posted By: JohnInKansas
18-May-04 - 09:13 PM
Thread Name: Req: Sing-along songs from the 20's & 30's
Subject: RE: Req: Sing-along songs from the 20's & 30's
These are old songs? Seems like they're mostly my favorites.

The was some discussion early on in the thread about troubles with connecting to sites to hear music. Being cursed with a slow POTS line that usually disconnects me half way through the download when I try to play something direct from a link, I often just download and play later.

Apologies if I'm repeating, but I don't think anyone mentioned that if you right click most links, you can select "save target as" and then go about your business while the file downloads in the background. The download to disk seems often to be much more reliable and more likely to complete than the "piecemeal - bursts - fits - and - starts" download I get if I try to just listen on the link.

Some sites do block(?) this sort of download (i.e sometimes it doesn't work), but it often does work. (And it often lets you download a "page" or "file" from sites that attempt to block saving or copying when the page is open. You can often "save target" when you can't easily save the page while you're looking at it or listening to it.)

John