Re: Loopers-Delight-d Digest V99 #49

[Robert Switzer <rswitzer@721.com>]

At 01:48 PM 2/3/99 -0500, you wrote:
>>> >        The track is available in CD-quality mp3 downloadable form at
>>> >http://www.mp3.com/evirus -- checkit out, and let me know what you
think . . .
>
>I tried to download this, but when i clicked on the whatever.mp3 file
>(forgive me, it's been a while) with GetRight to download it, it 
>downloaded
>a several kilobyte size file that, well, wasn't an mp3.  Can anyone clue
>me in to what wacky stuff mp3.com does with its server?
>-- 

mp3.com has a system in place that uses .cgi scripts to tally the 
downloads,
so if you right-click (on Windows/Netscape) on the link to save-as, you
wind up with the script 
rather than the actual *.mp3. If there is a right-click equivalent in Mac
land, I'm assuming the results would be the same. 

On this site, you have to actually double-click the link to 
initiate a download, and even then, sometimes it doesn't work -- the file
becomes corrupt, and
fails to load properly.

Thanks for the interest, BTW . . .

rob switzer
echovirus