eMusic’s Download Manager
My favorite music download site, eMusic swapped out their old download manager for a new one. The old manager worked well. You clicked on one button to download all of the tracks from an album and it did the work for you, sticking the music in an appropriately named directory of your choosing.
The new manager is an attempt to be a music player and collection manager as well. Big problem, however. It screws up the basic task I need it for, which is downloading. Every single time I download an album, at least one track doesn’t arrive properly. Every single time.
So I’ve turned off the default download manager option in my account settings. I’m experimenting with Free Download Manager and Download Them All, the latter a Firefox plugin. Once I get one of them to operate properly in one-click mode I should be set.
November 17th, 2007 at 1:38 pm
[...] Catching up on events, eMusic came out with patch for their new download manager. For the few days that I used it, it worked well. Then they announced that the user backlash had been such that they were reverting back to the old one, though there was an option to continue using the new one. After playing with Free Download Manager for a while, I’ve concluded that eMusic’s old manager is the one for me. It only downloads the MP3’s on a page, it files them in an appropriately names directory, and names all the tracks for me. Free Download Manager defaults to downloading everything on the page, and you have to figure out how to filter out what you don’t want. [...]