How can I save mp3 links from email messages?

I know exactly what you mean and have seen this message again and again after sending out email with mp3 file URLs included. The problem is that within your mail program, all you see is:

Nice, but how do you save it so you can, for example, drop it onto your iPod?

Here's how I do that: click on the link and/or type it into your Web browser. Now you'll see a rudimentary set of player controls, like I do in Apple's Safari browser:

Safari makes it easy at this point, just choose File --> Save As... and you'll be able to save the mp3 file onto your hard disk:

Sometimes that won't work, however, so I want to also show you a simple alternative that I've found is pretty darn reliable regardless of what browser you use. It involves creating a rudimentary Web page, so are you ready?

If you're running a Mac, launch "TextEdit" and if you're on a PC start up "Text Edit" and type in the following skeleton:

Between the two quotes, copy and paste in the URL from the email message you received, so for my message it'd look like this:

That's all the code you need to write. Save this as a text only or ASCII file with the filename "download.html" (note the 'html': don't use the default of '.txt' here!)

Open that file in your Web browser and you'll see the words "audio link" in blue, underlined, and if you click it 'em you'll get to the mp3 player in your browser, but you don't want to do that. Instead, right click (Mac folk, use Control-click here) and you'll get a contextual menu like this:

That's Firefox and you can see I've highlighted "Save Link As...". Choose that and you will have the mp3 file neatly saved on your hard disk, even if the previous methods didn't work for you!

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