You will be downloading two different types of files: ZIP and RAR.
Both of these file types exist to compress and compile multiple files. When clicking these links and downloading the one file for each album, you will need to have the right software to be able to "unzip" these files, so as to separate the songs and be able to listen to them. The most common programs used for this are WinRAR and WinZip. I would recommend WinRAR, as I feel it is the most user-friendly of the two. You can download a trial for WinRAR here. Since I have the full version, I'm not sure how much you will be able to use the program before the trial expires. Let me know if there are any problems with it and I'll find another program.
This is the order you should follow during this tutorial:
1. Install WinRAR
2. Download the files(I will run through how to do this next)
3. Unzip the files with WinRAR.
Let's start by downloading these files:
Start by clicking the link I have saying "here" for, say, New Music 78/79.
Once you click the link, you should arrive at the above page. Click Megaupload
It will take you to this page:
It will ask you to put three letters in the circled box, and once you do, click the circled "Download".
You will then arrive at the following page:
It will ask you to wait 45 seconds.
Once you've waited that long, that box will turn into this:
Click "Free download".
The following window will pop up:
Click "Save to Disk", and choose where you would like to have it saved. The easiest place to save it would be your desktop.
All of the other files can be downloaded in the same fashion, however I will now show you how to download from rapidshare, where Entheogens and the other files are hosted. I don't suggest downloading strictly from Rapidshare, however, because they only allow one download per 2 hours. Download Entheogens from rapidshare, and then download the rest from Megaupload.
If you click my link for Entheogens, you will arrive at the following page:
Click the circled "Free", and you will arrive at this page:
There will be several links, all beginning with "Download via" and then the name of a server which is located somewhere ON THE PLANET. I find that TeliaSonera's servers are fastest for me, but the truth is that all of them will download at a reasonable speed. Once you click one of them, make sure you click "Save to Disk" and save it to your desktop.
Finally I will show you how to download from MassMirror, which is where the rest of the albums are posted.
Once you click the link for the Daniel Johnston and Jad Fair, Lichens, and David Holmes albums, you'll arrive at this page:
I have circled megaupload's download link because I think it is the easiest and fastest, however any of the other links should work just fine, but when you get to the other pages, a lot of times it's very busy and tough to tell where you're supposed to click to download the file.
Click Megaupload and follow the directions I have earlier in this post for downloading from Megaupload.
Once you've downloaded all of the RARs, the albums, you will have them all sitting on your desktop and, assuming you installed WinRAR correctly, they will all have an icon that is a stack of books. Double-click the first one you'd like to unzip, and you will see something similar to this:
You'll see the WinRAR window with one folder inside of it. As illustrated, take the folder and drag it to your desktop to somewhere that is blank. In doing so, you will tell WinRAR to unzip the folder so that you can use it.
This should appear:
It's completely normal. All it's doing is unzipping(decompressing) the files, and putting them into a usable format. This should only last 10-20 seconds.
And then you've got the albums! If you use iTunes, you can put the songs into your library by highlighting all of the music files in the folder and dragging them into the library. Before doing this, however, I suggest you go into the iTunes preferences and in the first window that pops up make sure that "copy music into file folders" is checked. Once you copy the music into your library, you can delete both the RAR/ZIP file and the folder that you unzipped. However, if you're not using iTunes, do not delete the unzipped folder as it is the only thing keeping the music on your computer.
I hope that this tutorial has been helpful and not too confusing. Let me know if you have any more questions.
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