I was pretty sure that somewhere on the board it was explained how some of you do that nifty thing where you hit a link and it plays the song sample, but I just ain't findin' it. Pretty please?
If the sample is on a webpage, it has a url, and you put that url after the '='. Just right-click the sample and 'copy link location' or whatever. The text ("Artist - 'Track'" above) between the tags is whatever you want.
From Amazon, you right click the 'play sample' button and choose 'copy address'. Then you do the url=X (paste url here) - /url thing within square brackets as per kargatron's post above
Okay, that worked.
Thanks everyone. TimMason, that right click was the part that escaped me. I kept trying to find a differentiation in the url address in my browser from sample to sample, and that just wasn't happening. I don't know why I didn't think to just right click. Cool.
One more question: When I tried my own sample above, it opened a pop-up box asking what I wanted to do, I did Open, and it played it for me in iTunes. It left the mp3 sample file in my library even though I didn't select Save. Does that happen to each of you, too, or did I hit a wrong button somewhere?
That happened because you have iTunes keyed to play mp3s or m3us. Due to the annoying fact that iTunes automatically adds anything to its library, that's a poor choice. Pick something lightweight to associate with mp3s (e.g. winamp for Windows, QT for Mac). Use iTunes to play stuff you only deliberately add to the library.
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This is how a clip url looks from Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/dmusic/media/sample.m3u/ref=dm_dp_trk2_smpl?ie=UTF8&catalogItemType=track&ASIN=B0037DKH6Y
- and the same put into a Link
and a clip url from Amie:
http://amiestreet.com/stream/song/AN7fdYIBKnwx.mp3 - and put into a Link
Emusic:
http://www.emusic.com/samples/m3u/album/11852127/1.m3u - put into a Link
I don't know how the first two ones will work.
From Amazon, you right click the 'play sample' button and choose 'copy address'. Then you do the url=X (paste url here) - /url thing within square brackets as per kargatron's post above
Test.
Thanks everyone. TimMason, that right click was the part that escaped me. I kept trying to find a differentiation in the url address in my browser from sample to sample, and that just wasn't happening. I don't know why I didn't think to just right click. Cool.
One more question: When I tried my own sample above, it opened a pop-up box asking what I wanted to do, I did Open, and it played it for me in iTunes. It left the mp3 sample file in my library even though I didn't select Save. Does that happen to each of you, too, or did I hit a wrong button somewhere?