Brenda wrote:
>I listen to a broadcast at a website on my pc but it does not give an opt=
>ion to download.=20=20=20
>Is there a way to download to my pc?>>


Depending which browser you use, there may be a way to do this without 
specialised software.

First, empty the browser cache. (in IE, go to tools/Internet options/ 
Temporary Internet Files and click the button "empty temp internet files".

Then run the broadcast.

Before you exit the program or the browser, open Internet Options again, 
and this time click the button "View files". Or find the Temporary Internet 
Files folder on your C-drive manually and open it.

With luck, you may be able to spot the sound file you want to keep. It may 
have an extension .wav or some other audio extension. It will be a 
relatively large file.

You can't play or open it directly from the browser cache.  But you can 
copy it to another folder, where it should run in the normal way.

You can do this with most audio or video files in the browser cache, by 
simply copying them to another location.

You can also use this method to save Youtube video clips, though it's 
easier to use specialised free software for this (Google for Youtube 
Downloader).

The reason for emptying the folder first is that otherwise it will be full 
of many other items from all your browsing sessions, which makes it very 
difficult to find the exact file you want.

Some websites protect their content by removing it from the cache upon 
exiting the site, or even by preventing the data entering the cache at all, 
in which case you're out of luck unless you record the sound live as it 
streams in. You may be able to do this by using Sound Recorder (built into 
XP) and saving the result. But it's likely to be a very large file. 
Third-party sound recorders may do a better job but I don't know, I've 
never used one.

Don Penlington



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