MP3 files make it easy for anyone to distribute music completely free of charge. Anyone can now easily find and access music and manipulate sound on a computer. Now you can easily take a song from a music CD and play it directly on your computer or encode the file. You can also convert files to CD files and create your own CDs on the web. It is also possible to store hundreds of MP3 files on data CDs. You can even load these files onto portable players and take them wherever you go. It is also possible to download these files.
How to download?
One of the easiest ways to download an MP3 file is to right-click on the file’s link and choose “Save File/Target/Link As… or Download Link”. This is true for Windows and Linux. For Mac OS X, you need to hold down the option key and click the link to the MP3 file. The file can be downloaded to the desktop.
Firefox is the recommended browser to download these files. They can also be easily downloaded using the program or the accelerator. Left-clicking will play the file in Windows Media Player and not save it. Then you can create a special directory for all MP3 files so you don’t lose any files. This may also not solve the problem because saving the file to the hard drive may not allow it to have its normal file extension.
Webmasters are smart enough and usually upload files with unusual file extensions so server administrators can’t delete them. These MP3 files can be downloaded as normal, but will need to be renamed before you can play them when they are stored on your hard drive. Another way could be to unzip the file using Winzip if the file has a .zip or .gz extension. Renaming these files must be done with care. You must first select the file in Windows Explorer. Then press F2 and rename the extension as .MP3. Sometimes this extension change does not appear because Windows hides the file name extension. The next step is to go to the View menu and click on Folder Options. Select the View tab and click “Hide file extensions for known file types.” If this doesn’t work, the last resort is to open the MS-Dos window and go to the MP3 directory.
Technology has made it easy
MPEG Audio Layer 3 or MP3 is an audio coding scheme within a video compression program. Previously, saving a high-quality video to a computer was not feasible as it was time consuming and memory intensive. Now it has become easy to download a song in seconds. A full CD can be downloaded in a few minutes and a digital audio takes only a couple of minutes more to download. A digital audio also occupies only a small amount of disk space and there is no loss of quality. This file is a CD-quality storable file and can be easily downloaded. Whichever way you choose to download files, you need to make sure you have the right hardware, a fast machine, high-quality speakers, and most important of all, don’t forget about copyright laws.
