Hi Claire, Chris, and Others, Claire asked: > Does somebody know if it is possible to download an mp3 file wih > Safari by > just pasting the Mp3's URL in the address bar ? Currently, when I do > this, > Quicktime starts playing the file and I can not download it to my hard > drive.
and Joe replied: > Yes, if you paste the web site where the MP3 is located. But no if > you copy > from the MP3 file it will open up in the default music player. The fastest way to download an mp3 file from a URL link on a Safari web page is to use option-enter when VoiceOver is positioned on the link. However, you could paste the URL of an mp3 file into the address bar and download. Here are the steps: 1. copy the URL address from your source with Command-C 2. navigate to Safari (e.g., you could do this by using Command-tab to switch between your active application windows if Safari is running and you want to switch to it from mail -- I generally hold down the Command key with my thumb and tap the tab key to get to the app I want. Alternatively, after the first tap of the tab key, I'll continue to hold down the Command key but tap the right or left arrow keys to move between active applications if there are a lot of them, then release keys when I'm at the app I want to switch to.) 3. move to the Safari address bar with Command-L 4. paste in the URL with Command-V 5. press Option-Enter to start downloading the mp3 file A quick explanation: Option-Enter (or, as purists would say, Option- Return) is a Safari shortcut that forces the linked file to download. The file need not be an mp3 file that would otherwise play via the browser plugin. It could be a PDF file that would otherwise display in the browser (and take time to load) instead getting downloaded to your Mac. What Option-Enter does is download highlighted (selected) link entries. VoiceOver automatically highlights and selects these links when you navigate. A sighted user would move their mouse cursor to a link and use Option-Click (clicking with the TrackPad or a Mouse key while holding down the Option key) to force the download, because positioning the mouse cursor and clicking does the selection. For that reason, in Safari menu shortcut links you'll see "Option-click" as the shortcut for "Download file". The default Safari behavior is to play mp3 files, as we noted before. Now, if you have already started playing the mp3 file, and instead you now want to download it, just do the following: 1. Press Command-L to highlight the location in the address bar 2. Press Option-Enter to download the file from that location (the file will still be playing in the browser until you move away from that page, but you can navigate away at any time.) Hope this wasn't too longwinded. Cheers, Esther -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
