Contents
- Downloading your purchased music
- Recommendation: use the Download Manager to download the full album package
- What to do if the download manager does not start
- What to do if the Download Manager shows an error message
- Alternatively, download a zip file of the full album package
- Setting up your desktop music player
- Where to go to download free desktop music players
- How to set up a player as your default player
- How to import downloaded music into your player's library
- About the music in this shop
Downloading your purchased music
Recommendation: use the Download Manager to download the full album package
To take best advantage of the Download Manager choose the download all button. The advantages over downloading the album as a ZIP file or downloading the tracks individually are as follows:
1. you can follow the individual progress of each track download.
2. as soon as a track has been downloaded you can begin listening to it even while the rest of the album is still downloading. You neither have to wait for the whole album to download, nor to perform the extra step of unzipping a zipped package.
3. Tip: make sure your Media Player (e.g. Windows Media Player or Real Player) is set up to import any new files that you download automatically to your media players library.
In Windows Media player for example, you can find the add to library settings bottom left. One of them is called by monitoring folders . Click this and then choose the folder(s) on your computer to which you usually download.
4. The Download Manager is a software, programmed by Fresh Digital, the DG Web Shop operator, in Java, a programming language licensed from Sun Microsystems. You will be shown a security certificate that allows you to be sure that the program you are about to use is secure.
What to do if the Download Manager does not start
When you try to download an album with the button Download Manager, are you asked if you want to download the file musicdownloader.jsp or find a program online to open it?
As mentioned in the previous point, the Download Manager is a software, programmed by Fresh Digital, the DG Web Shop operator, in Java, a programming language licensed from Sun Microsystems. Most modern browsers have the Java plug-in already installed and activated.
In case Java is not enabled in your browser, please go to the following address for information on how to enable it: http://www.Java.com/en/download/help/enable_browser.xml
In the unlikely case that you do not have the Java plugin installed in your computer atall, please go to the following address for information on how to download it: http://www.Java.com/en/download/help/5000010100.xml
What to do if the Download Manager shows an error message
Does the Download Manager show an error message that a file could not be downloaded?
If a file is faulty and could not be downloaded within five attempts, the Download Manager will show you the above error message and then move on to download the next files in the album package. Note which file you are missing and then try to download it individually from the download page. If this does not work, please inform us at the following email address dg@freshdigital.co.uk. We will correct the error and inform you when you can now download the file from your My Media page.
Alternatively, download a zip file of the full album package
Instead of using the Download Manager you can download a ZIP file of the album package.
A ZIP file is originally a normal folder containing multiple files that have been packaged together with the program WINZIP into a single file for easier electronic distribution. This way you can download the whole album with one click.
You need then WINZIP or another similar program on your computer to unzip or expand the downloaded ZIP file back into the original format of folder and its contents of the tracks you have downloaded.
You must unzip a ZIP file before you can import the music into the library of your media player.
Setting up your desktop music player
Where to go to download free desktop music players
- iTunes (recommended): www.apple.com/itunes
- Windows Media Player: www.windowsmedia.com
- Real Player: www.real.com
How to set up a player as your default player
- iTunes (recommended): go to Menu > Edit > Preferences > Advanced > "use iTunes as the default player for audio files"
- Windows Media Player: go to Menu > Tools > Options > File Types and check the mp3 box
How to import downloaded music into your player's library
- iTunes (recommended): go to Menu > File > Add folder to library
- Windows Media Player: go to Menu > File > Add to library > By Monitoring Folders (automatic) or > Add Folder (manually)
- Real Player: go to Menu > File > Add Files to My Library > Add Folder
About the music on this site
Our music files are in MP3 format at a high quality bit rate of 320 kbps (kilobits per second). This is an open format, which can be played by almost all desktop players and portable devices. There is no restriction on making copies or burning CDs from these files for your personal use only.
However, to pass copies of these files on to other people is an infringement of copyright law and the terms and conditions of this shop to which you have agreed with any registered purchase from this shop.
