downloading music

Yuhan · 07-29-2011, 06:31 PM

What is the best and easiest way to download music from an external website onto Ubuntu? I have both Rhythmbox and mplayer installed, but it's not clear to me how you download music so that it is recognized by those players. Would it be easier to use a terminal for downloading?

MTK358 · 07-29-2011, 08:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Yuhan

What is the best and easiest way to download music from an external website onto Ubuntu? I have both Rhythmbox and mplayer installed, but it's not clear to me how you download music so that it is recognized by those players. Would it be easier to use a terminal for downloading?

What do music players have to do with downloading music? Just download them like any other file.

If you want to do it from a terminal:

Code:

wget url

replace "url" wit the url of the file. You can also use the "-O filename" option to specify the filename to save to.

rahulkya · 07-29-2011, 09:45 PM

install restricted driver to play almost all kinds of files... THE above solution is good for getting any kind of file from url..

to play most of the files install banshee and vlc from synaptic..

Quote:

sudo apt-get install banshee vlc

rhythmbox generally plays only audio while banshee can play some video too just like itunes..

Yuhan · 07-29-2011, 11:35 PM

So if you're downloading an mp3 file, it makes no difference what the player is you're working with? Does it just wind up in the "download" file on your basic folder? Like I said, I've not yet downloaded music on Linux. When I go to a music site I don't know how to route it so that I can retrieve it easily and play it on a media player. I appreciate the input; I'm not yet familiar with a lot of Linux features.

MTK358 · 07-30-2011, 07:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Yuhan

So if you're downloading an mp3 file, it makes no difference what the player is you're working with? Does it just wind up in the "download" file on your basic folder? Like I said, I've not yet downloaded music on Linux. When I go to a music site I don't know how to route it so that I can retrieve it easily and play it on a media player. I appreciate the input; I'm not yet familiar with a lot of Linux features.

Unless this is some strange system that doesn't let you just download the music files, I don't understand what Linux or the fact that it's a music file has to do with this.

Basically, is there a "download" link for each song on that site? When you hover over it, does the URL end with ".mp3" (but it might still work if it doesn't)?

Yuhan · 07-31-2011, 07:34 PM

When I right click on "download" I receive the options: "Save link as..."; "Send link..."; "Copy link location." I would guess it is "Save link as..." with the song title and/or artist following. Is that correct? But then once that command is executed where is the file stored? What is the best arrangement to download music and then retrieve it easily? I'm coming from a Mac environment where all this is done automatically through iTunes (for better or worse!).

MTK358 · 07-31-2011, 07:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Yuhan

When I right click on "download" I receive the options: "Save link as..."; "Send link..."; "Copy link location." I would guess it is "Save link as..." with the song title and/or artist following. Is that correct? But then once that command is executed where is the file stored? What is the best arrangement to download music and then retrieve it easily? I'm coming from a Mac environment where all this is done automatically through iTunes (for better or worse!).

They are most likely put into "~/Downloads".

Also, you can choose "copy link location" and paste it into a download manager. Or you can copy the link and run this command:

Code:

wget "$(xclip -o)"

which will download the link currently stored in the clipboard (you need to have xclip installed.

corp769 · 07-31-2011, 07:38 PM

Hello,

I take it you are using firefox.... Open your firefox preferences, and make it so that firefox asks you where you want to store your files each time you download something. By default in linux, your downloads will go to your Downloads directory within your home directory.

Cheers,

Josh

PS - And yes, when you right click on any file within firefox, you would click "Save link as" to download it and save it to your hard drive.