Today like most days I got added as a “friend” by a band on mySpace. Surprisingly the band was quite good and some of their tracks were available to download from their mySpace page, great!
When I clicked on the download track link the mp3 actually gets streamed in your browser using quicktime. It is not possible to right click the download link and “Save File As” because the mySpace media-player is flash based. What is the point of offering a download
link if your not going to provide a proper download?
The amount of bands using mySpace is quite staggering now days, it seems that every new band that comes out has a mySpace page, some don’t even bother with separate website. mySpace has multi-millions of dollars behind it and must have hundred of developers, the mind boggles why they can’t sort this, especially when one of the sites main appeal is supposed to be the music.
Now I sure the mySpace download feature used to work, interestingly I received a newsletter from mySpace the other day promoting their new Music Store. Conspiracy theorists will probably claim they’ve sabotaged the free downloads on purpose so people pay for music in the store. Well it certainly doesn’t entice me to buy anything from them, if they can’t offer downloads correctly imagine what they might do with your credit card information!
# Pete Graham
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Argh, I hate the mySpace music player, it’s useless! I don’t understand why people can’t just put up proper mp3s that everyone can listen to and use rather than having to traverse that monstrosity. Not the mention the fact that I resent having to keep a browser open to listen to music.
Posted 22 Feb 2007 at 8:30 am ¶Who the hell was that first comment by?!
Posted 22 Feb 2007 at 8:31 am ¶One thing I do like about mySpace is how you can sometimes stream whole albums pre-release on bands profiles. However the downloads suck big time!
No idea who made that first comment, don’t think it’s spam. Wish I knew what it meant, not even sure what language it’s in.
Posted 22 Feb 2007 at 9:19 am ¶I’m curious about this pete, cause i have downloaded songs from myspace with no problem. i just tried finding the band in your screenshot and downloaded it. however, myspace does gives the files stupidly long nonsense names.
Posted 23 Feb 2007 at 8:15 am ¶eg full_26d950ca0bd11307fd0e29dba724b070.mp3
Were you using Firefox? I tried with FF, IE7 and Opera and it just streamed in all of them
They need to sort that shit out, I love Compuman Beings!
Posted 23 Feb 2007 at 8:19 am ¶yes firefox. strange
Posted 23 Feb 2007 at 8:28 am ¶If the mp3 opens in the browser like that, I think you can still save it by going to ‘file, save page as’ and it then saves as an mp3.
Posted 12 May 2007 at 9:05 pm ¶u guys are faqs go get a life
Posted 17 Sep 2007 at 11:44 am ¶your browser automatically plays mp3 files dumbass… press save as..
Posted 21 Mar 2008 at 6:17 pm ¶yesss very frustrating. go look at myspace.com/ceilingtiles. we have had our songs downloadable for a year now and theres not even a download icon showing up!!!! nothing. i have emailed myspace many times with no answer.
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