How to save an MP3 that shows up in a 'safari' player?

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How to save an MP3 that shows up in a 'safari' player?

If you pull up a URL that is directly to an MP3 file, say like this one here:

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/7042/Flow%20Dynamics%20-%20Barcelona320k.mp3

It is a raw MP3 file, not an MP3 embedded into a flash player or anything. I can't for the life of me figure out how to save the file from within Safari. Sure I can copy the URL, paste it into an email, contextual click it and select to Download the Linked file - but it would be far easier to do this task from within Safari.

Am I missing something? How do you save the file from Safari?

Thanks.

iMac 24", Mac OS X (10.6)

Posted on Sep 17, 2009 5:21 PM

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Answer 1

ra5ul

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Sep 17, 2009 11:04 PM in response to randy_harris

hit cmd-L, then opt-enter.

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Answer 2

Sep 17, 2009 6:19 PM in response to randy_harris

There's a few ways in doing this. This way is the easiest........

Copy the URL then.... Safari, Menu--->Window---Downlaods--->Menu (again)--->Edit--->Paste. The download of the file will start....

Make sure the download window is selected before you paste.

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dbsneddon

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Sep 18, 2009 2:55 AM in response to David M Brewer

OK, you've lost me. I can right-click on the link in the original post above
and download the linked file.
That was my understanding of the original question. A link, such as posted
above... how to save it.

Dave

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Answer 4

randy_harris Author

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Sep 18, 2009 5:15 AM in response to dbsneddon

Dave, you can do that when you see a link from a referring page - but I am talking about a situation once you've already loaded the MP3 into Safari and it is being shows in a quicktime type player - presented with no option of saving it.

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Answer 5

Sep 18, 2009 5:19 AM in response to dbsneddon

Oh. yes you can do that. But if you open or have a link open with the player you used to be able to right click to download the video/audio file but not any more with Safari 4x. Like I said there's more than one way to skin a cat and do this operation. I can think of three other way to do this. The way I showed is a sure fire way in doing this.

One should know how to do this or anything else on their computer in more than one way. Just incase one way doesn't work. Thanks for sharing!

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Answer 6

randy_harris Author

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Sep 17, 2009 10:45 PM in response to David M Brewer

Not very intuitive for me, but hey that works - thanks!

By chance does anybody have some apple script or something that can turn this into a hotkey service?

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