Www.eclassical.com is a great site for all things classical music. Not
free, but individual pieces range from $49 to $99, and whole symphonies or
albums are usually around $5. It's very JAWS-friendly and just a great site
in general. You give them your credit card number when you've filled your
shopping cart with whatever you want to buy, and you give them an email
address. They then send you the link to the song, which you then save to
your computer. For classical fans, it rocks!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Lange" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 10:00 PM
Subject: Re: [VICUG-L] JAWS Friendly Music Download Sites
> Hi all,
> This one's not free, but it's very easy to use. Try
>
> www.mp3fiesta.com
>
> It's rather an odd name for the site, since I've heard that it's out of
> Russia. I googled it and found that everything about it is legal and
> legit. complete albums average around two dollars; individual songs are
> twenty cents apiece.
>
> Here's how it works. To use it, you register by supplying your name and
> e-mail address. I don't recall having to give a physical address and/or
> phone numbers. Anyway, after you register, you can allocate a certain
> amount of money to spend for downloads, and you supply your credit card
> number. That done, you now have a balance toward which purchases are
> applied. When your available funds are nearly exhausted, you can refill
> the balance.
>
> The way that I shop there is to browse by artist. So, for example, let's
> say I want to buy an album by Jeff Beck, one of my favorite guitarists.
> Using my screen reader's link list command, I bring up the links and click
> on j. At the next page, I then can browse all of the artists whose names
> start with j. Ah, but there's a catch that is rather annoying, but I can
> work around it. Artists' names are not sorted alphabetically. So, I
> simply do a string search on the page, looking for Jeff Beck. Luckily I
> find it, and when I do, I'm placed on a link that leads to the list of his
> available albums. Clicking on that link, I'm then presented with a new
> page. On this page, near the bottom, I think, will be a table of the
> available albums. Each table row contains a catalog number, the album
> name, the number of tracks, the year it was released, and the album's
> price. There's also a button which I can use to purchase the album. So
> let's say I locate this table, and find an entry for something called
> "Official Bootleg USA 2006", with 13 or 14 tracks. The album title is a
> link, so I click on it. At the resulting page, I can find a table
> containing the complete track listing, including the track numbers, track
> titles, the track quality, e.g. 192k 320k and so on, and the track
> duration. If I click on a track name, say "Beck's Bolero", "Star Cycle",
> ""Two Rivers" or "Big Block", I can hear a roughly 30-second sample of
> what the track sounds like.
>
> Immediately preceding this track listing is the same buttton that I would
> use to purchase the album, so, after auditioning various tracks, I can
> click this button, whereupon I'm now told that two dollars was deducted
> from my current balance and I now have 48 hours during which the album
> will be in my downloads area.
>
> In the downloads area is another table showing a nearly identical track
> listing, and each track has a download link. To download the individual
> MP3 files, I click on the corresponding download link, or right-click it
> and do a "save target as". That's actually the recommended way to do it.
> I then proceed as with any other file download.
>
> Once all the tracks are downloaded, I copy them to my music repository
> and/or stash them in My Victor Stream.
>
> There are other ways to do things on mp3fiesta, but this is how I use it.
> I've been very happy with it, as I've found almost everything that I
> wanted so far and I make sure that I download my purchases within the
> 48-hour limit. I don't know what happens if I can't do that and frankly
> wouldn't delay that long in downloading the tracks unless my machine was
> down or I got called away for some reason. If I want an album that much,
> I won't waste time; I must have it now. By the way, for Jeff Beck fans
> out there, Official Bootleg USA 2006 is a keeper. It's a Beck
> retrospective, with Jeff on guitar, Pino Palladino on bass, Jason Robello
> on keys, and Vinny Calliuto on drums. Typical quirky but tasty Jeff Beck,
> but awesome just the same, especially with such a killer backing band.
>
>
> Tom
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ray Campbell" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 12:24 PM
> Subject: [VICUG-L] JAWS Friendly Music Download Sites
>
>
> Hello:
>
> What music download sites are out there which are JAWS friendly? What
> is the per song cost for downloading? Are they easy to navigate? Are
> there any unlimited download options? Are there good free music
> download sites?
>
> I'm needing this information for a client.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Ray Campbell, Help Desk Technician
> Adaptive Technology Center
> Chicago Lighthouse for People Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired
> 1850 W. Roosevelt Road
> Chicago, IL 60608
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