My symphony has a website where recordings of upcoming pieces are posted. The recordings are posted in what I thought was wma format, and they stream just fine, but when I try to save them and play them back later they don't work. Alternatively they show up only as part of a playlist, and the file type shows as "WMA shortcut". Do you think there's a way that I can save these as straight-up wma files, so that they can be a normal part of my Windows Media Player library? Help would be much appreciated - I'd like the recordings on my iPod to listen in the car and such.
I'm having trouble downloading wma files.?violin
They are set so that the stream from the webserver - the WMA file on the server is basically a straight text file telling media player where to get the info from.
Try changing your caching settings - tell it to cache the whole dang file before playing the file. While it's playing, go to IE's 'temporary internet files' folder, sort the folder by size, and copy out that biggest files that are listed , putting them on your desktop. They may already be listed as audio files... After you can verify that they are what you want, then you can put them on your other devices.
Better idea... If it's YOU'R symphony, make a stink about it! Complain! Change it! Make sure that your symphony knows that it's preventing a large percentage of their listeners from enjoying the music becuase they insist on using proprietary technology from microsoft that cripples their data. Have them use standard the MP3 format. How about MPG files? If they must use WMA, have it available for download, not just streaming.
I'm having trouble downloading wma files.?chinese theater opera theater
If they R DRM protected they may not allow saving.
Open the playlist file with Notepad and find the real link for the song, for example like this which starts with http and ends with wma for wma files:
http://site.com/song.wma
copy the link into the address space on your browser and the file should be downloading.
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