Don't Lose Your Music Bookmarks!

Subject: Don't Lose Your Music Bookmarks!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 07 Jun 01 - 11:21 AM

Three of our best lyric and tune searchers have said in the last year that they lost their bookmarks when their computers failed. I only have a few by now, for my own lyric research, but I can see already that I would hate to lose them.

I know of two ways to protect them. One is to back up the folder they live in, on a regular basis.

The other way is available to all Mudcat members. It benefits all Mudcatters, and can make searching your favorite sites faster, IMO. Just use the handy link-making form in the Mudcat LINKS pages, and then from there, use the "bookmark" function to toss the links you use most onto your personal page-- the ones you've listed and the ones you'll glean from others' listings. (You can even edit your own listings.) From there you can open those links anytime in a new window. In the LINKS section, they will be organized by topic, but in your personal page they will all be together.

~Susan

Subject: RE: Don't Lose Your Music Bookmarks!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 07 Jun 01 - 11:25 AM

SEE?

Subject: RE: Don't Lose Your Music Bookmarks!
From: MudGuard
Date: 07 Jun 01 - 11:25 AM

There is a third way: instead of keeping your links in the bookmarks, create a website that contains your links...

Although for musical links the Mudcat links are preferable as others may use the links as well.

MudGuard

Subject: RE: Don't Lose Your Music Bookmarks!
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 07 Jun 01 - 12:38 PM

Who needs bookmarks?!?

If you're good with a search engine, you can find any site in mear moments...

And if you have a favourite site on a certain topic bookmarked, you never go looking for new sites on that topic..

Bookmarks are over-rated...

;-)

Subject: RE: Don't Lose Your Music Bookmarks!
From: MMario
Date: 07 Jun 01 - 12:51 PM

some of us are on very slow phone lines - even WITH bookmarks it can take longer then you want to download a site. if you had to do a search first...

Subject: RE: Don't Lose Your Music Bookmarks!
From: KingBrilliant
Date: 07 Jun 01 - 12:58 PM

I printed mine all off onto paper when I thought I might be imminently changing jobs. Seemed a great idea at the time - but b*ggered if I know where that paper is now.....

Kris

Subject: RE: Don't Lose Your Music Bookmarks!
From: mousethief
Date: 07 Jun 01 - 01:02 PM

With these nifty bars at the top of the new Netscape browser, I can have my favorite websites just ONE CLICK away. Why go through the hassle of looking them up on a search engine? Especially ones I use multiple times a day.

Alex

Subject: RE: Don't Lose Your Music Bookmarks!
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 07 Jun 01 - 01:02 PM

Ahhhww... com'on... even phone modems aren't THAT slow... How long does searching for a site on Altavista over a 56K modme take? 30 seconds? Maybe???

King B....
To quote Henry Jones Sr.
"I wrote it down in my diary so I wouldn't HAVE to remember"

LOL!

;-)

Subject: RE: Don't Lose Your Music Bookmarks!
From: MMario
Date: 07 Jun 01 - 01:10 PM

I wish I could get a 56 k connection clinton - at home I am lucky to connect at 28, more often at 24, and it's not unusual to drop down to 18.2

on bad days I'm lucky if it will give me a 9.6 connection. maybe

Subject: RE: Don't Lose Your Music Bookmarks!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 07 Jun 01 - 01:47 PM

Me too.

Use Mudcat LINKS!

~S~

Subject: RE: Don't Lose Your Music Bookmarks!
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 07 Jun 01 - 01:50 PM

Yer home connection is that lousy?

Man, I'd bitch up and down at my ISP and get them to fix it... that chews...

I assume you internet with images off then?

Subject: RE: Don't Lose Your Music Bookmarks!
From: MMario
Date: 07 Jun 01 - 01:55 PM

yup - and it's not the ISP; it is the phone lines.

Subject: RE: Don't Lose Your Music Bookmarks!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 07 Jun 01 - 01:55 PM

CH. With all due respect.... IT'S THE PHONE LINES.

It's called R.U.R.A.L. life.

~S~

Subject: RE: Don't Lose Your Music Bookmarks!
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 07 Jun 01 - 04:36 PM

That's a drag chums...

Go wireless, just as soon as ya can!

:-)

Subject: RE: Don't Lose Your Music Bookmarks!
From: mousethief
Date: 08 Jun 01 - 01:43 PM

It's not just rural living. I never get above 24400 on my 56k modem and I live in town.

Longing for digital phone lines.... sigh.....

Alex

Subject: RE: Don't Lose Your Music Bookmarks!
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 08 Jun 01 - 01:47 PM

*hugs his cable modem*

;-)