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Boots - Question About Downloads on Macs

More CowbellMore Cowbell Posts: 184
edited July 2008 in The Porch
Has anyone downloaded any of the shows using a Mac (Safari or Firefox)? If so, any problems, tips, etc.? I've found it more challenging at times to download on a Mac than on a PC from some sites (though I had no problem with the 2006 boots). I'm still trying to decide whether to buy the downloads or the CD's.

Thanks in advance for all responses (or pointing me to another thread if this has already been discussed).
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  • faithful227faithful227 Posts: 352
    I have a MacBook and I've downloaded two shows thus far. I use Firefox. They downloaded just fine. The only thing I didn't like is I had to go through and change all the song titles in iTunes because it put a bunch of numbers in front of the actual title. No biggie. Not sure if that was a Mac thing or not.

    Downloaded fast though !!!
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  • NOCODE#1NOCODE#1 Posts: 1,477
    imac here 3.08GHZ Dual core 4 gb of ram

    no problems. i needed to install a flac to wav converter thats it.
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  • dunkmandunkman Posts: 19,646
    faithful227 wrote:
    I have a MacBook and I've downloaded two shows thus far. I use Firefox. They downloaded just fine. The only thing I didn't like is I had to go through and change all the song titles in iTunes because it put a bunch of numbers in front of the actual title. No biggie. Not sure if that was a Mac thing or not.

    Downloaded fast though !!!


    the numbers thing in front of the title happened on pc's also. it wasnt mac only :)
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • Riot_MacRiot_Mac Posts: 473
    MacBook Pro here.

    I dl'd the Va Beach show with no problems.
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  • NC_IrieNC_Irie Posts: 270
    DL'd Columbia on my MacBook with no issues (other than trying to free up space on my hard drive).
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  • shmapshmap Posts: 375
    Looks like I'm the only one who's had trouble so far. When I tried to download the Camden I FLAC for the first time, it took 4 hours to complete 30%, and ended up being cancelled (not by me). Now I'm on my third try...I get to around 700 MB of 975, then it gets slower and slower (about 20KB/sec). When I went to bed it had two hours left to download, and when I woke up, still two hours. No idea what's going on.
  • More CowbellMore Cowbell Posts: 184
    Thanks everyone for your responses. I downloaded DC yesterday and it worked like a charm. Those numbers in front of each song are a bit annoying though, I agree.
  • NYCPJNYCPJ nyc Posts: 764
    More Cowbell wrote:
    Has anyone downloaded any of the shows using a Mac (Safari or Firefox)? If so, any problems, tips, etc.? I've found it more challenging at times to download on a Mac than on a PC from some sites (though I had no problem with the 2006 boots). I'm still trying to decide whether to buy the downloads or the CD's.

    Thanks in advance for all responses (or pointing me to another thread if this has already been discussed).

    I downloaded mp3s on the 2006 tour and had no issues. Ive only ordered CDs for this one.
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  • SVRDhand13SVRDhand13 Posts: 26,442
    It took me 6 hours to DL the SC show- I have no idea why. What programs did people use to change flacs to mp3s?
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  • eleven_fingerseleven_fingers Posts: 6
    I got Columbia and Camden I & II without a problem. I use Max for all of my file converting and cd ripping needs: http://sbooth.org/Max/
  • PearlJamBobPearlJamBob Posts: 77
    SVRDhand13 wrote:
    It took me 6 hours to DL the SC show- I have no idea why. What programs did people use to change flacs to mp3s?

    not sure why you would want to convert flac to mp3, kind of defeats the purpose of downloading flac

    use MacFlac to convert to wav
    http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Audio/MacFLAC.shtml

    or use Fluke to play the flacs right in iTunes
    http://cubicfruit.com/fluke/
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  • heyfoxymophandlemommheyfoxymophandlemomm Posts: 93
    working great so far on my macbook.
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