MP3 Audio Files Download Help -

How To Download, Save and Play Back

MP3 Audio Files On My Computer

Our sermons are in .mp3 format. To hear them, you need to firstly download them to your own computer, then you need to open these files with a program designed to read .mp3 files.

Here are the basics:

.mp3 is a compressed file format used for audio files

Even so, these are very large files – most sermons run 20MB & up. 20 megabytes, that would be 20 million bytes or 20 thousand kilobytes/

Check if you have enough hard drive space left to download these files!

• Depending on the speed of your internet connection, it will take a while to download. It is NOT instant even with T1/DSL/Cable.

Right RIGHT! click on the file link and "Save Target As" to your hard drive.

*REMEMBER where you put that file!

• Some computers try to change the file type by re-naming the extension .mp3 to something else. Don't let them. If necessary, rename before downloading back to trackname.mp3 or change them back afterwards so that is the name of the file and extension on your computer. If you don't, audio programs won't recognize the file type and say they cannot play them back!
• Left clicking will probably launch an inbuilt program on your computer such as RealAudio. This may play the track successfully (or it may not as it is being directly streamed from our server) but you can't save the file like that. Which means you can't listen to it anymore once you have shut down and have to download it all over again. Which is not a good thing ... Which is why we suggest you right click and save the file to YOUR computer first.

When you have saved the file, you need an audio program to play them back.

• Many programs are available to play MP3 files, depending on the computer you are using. Most Window’s computers have Media Player built in.
• If you don't have a decent speaker system connected to your computer, you NEED to plug in headphones to hear our sermons.
• If nothing at all happens, you might not have a soundcard.

How do I download from computer to mp3 player?

1. Connect your mp3 player to your computer. A lead for this should have come with your mp3 player.

2. Look on your main "My Computer" or "Finder" window - the mp3 player should register like an external hard drive, you should see it there.

3. When you download the mp3, you can download it directly to the location of the mp3 player (as though it was nothing but an external hard drive) or

3a. You can save the file to a different location on your computer, such as "My Music" folder, and then transfer it (copy and paste just like a normal file, or use the program that came with your mp3 player to retrieve the file and add it to your mp3 player).