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zedsalt	Date: March 29, 2008 @ 4:16 AM I downloaded a handful of tunes here yesterday, but a couple I tried ("A Fairy Tale" from evansorchid.dmusic.com/music/ and "A Five Day Love Affair" from eve.dmusic.com/music/) came up as HTML documents instead of MP3s. Thanks to a tip from JDog back in the late '90s, I know that right-clicking on the download button and selecting "Save target as..." is the most bug-free way for me to download. That's how I saw they were HTML doc's before I started the download.
FraDonaghy	Date: March 29, 2008 @ 8:04 AM When I right click and select "save link as" on the download button it shows up as a "firefox document" file type in the download manager. However, when I left click it, it automatically shows as an "mp3 format sound". Are you using Firefox or IE Zed?
ChillinBuzz	Date: March 29, 2008 @ 8:18 AM I get the same, when I right click a download it saves as a HTML file, it's part of the system in place to prevent deep linking (links to downloads from external sites) that we've had around for some time. Some songs don't do it - usually they are subscriber songs that are set to be deep linked.
zedsalt	Date: March 30, 2008 @ 3:20 AM Yeah, but, see, I've got stacks of DMusic compilation CDs big enough to hide a T.V. behind, and every one of those songs have been downloaded over the last nine years+ the same way. It has worked that way with Firefox and Netscape, and at the moment, IE7. It's how I downloaded three other songs that same afternoon. I started but cancelled a few other downloads just to check, and those two tunes were the only ones I had a problem with.
ChillinBuzz	Date: March 30, 2008 @ 3:35 AM That seems bizarre, "save as" hasn't worked for me in that fashion for a couple of years at least now. Confusing...
FraDonaghy	Date: March 30, 2008 @ 9:14 AM Maybe the new servers are operating differently?
Woof	Date: March 30, 2008 @ 9:47 AM Nope. The servers are working the same. To find the problem, I just clicked on the download button. A page came up, which said: Error: File missing or unreadable So naturally, when you right click and save the data, you're saving the html page with the error message on it, not the song. Looks like not everybody has all of their music back yet...
FraDonaghy	Date: March 30, 2008 @ 9:52 AM Indeed. So how come these files are showing as visible on the artist's page? I thought by default all missing files were set to invisible.