Downloading mp3 files

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Hello everyone.
I’m not sure if this is the right place for this question but some lessons have a resource link to download an mp3 file. It does open on my Mac computer and starts playing but I want to get the actual mp3 file to store in a folder. Is there a setting on my end that I need to set up or are these files just created to only let them be played?

Thank you,
Brian

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Look at this:- Download items from the web using Safari on Mac – Apple Support (UK)

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Thanks Darrell. I couldn’t find anything in that link that helped.
I was just looking at the Blim2 lesson on transcribing. When I click on the resources tab, it pulls up an option for the audio. When I click that link, it -URL’s up safari and opens a .net link that plays the audio. Unfortunately, it doesn’t let me save the mp3 file.

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There should be 3 vertical dots in the top right corner of the mp3 ‘image’. Clicking here gives you the ‘Download’ option.

Cheers, Shane

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Try doing it from a macOS terminal window.

curl -o filename url

Where url is the link in the safari tab for the mp3 file. And filename is what you want to call it when downloaded.

I needed to do this for all the BLIM audio files.

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Thanks Shane,
The vertical dots weren’t visible in Safari. I tried Chrome instead and it showed the 3 dots and offered me the download option. For the most part, Chrome and Safari are both usable browsers but they do have slightly different features.
Again, thanks for the help.

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Try clicking on the share/save tab at a top of browser and select save.

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I got it to work when I use Chrome.
Thanks for the help