(so you'll never ever lose them again or have them taken away from you)
The cheapest, fastest and easiest way
Go get Real Player from www.realplayer.com
The new Real Player has a cool feature which pops up a button on every video you ever view on the Internet
It looks like this:
Simply Click on Download This Video. Real Player Downloads the recording to a default folder
the path is usually C:\My Documents\My Videos\RealPlayer Downloads
The file type is an FLV file and the above recording was named exactly like this:
SingSnap One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer by BrotherGary.flv
I personally prefer not to use Real Player to actually PLAY any files on my computer
Therefore, I use this really cool stand alone player called Wimpy FLV Player
It's FREE and you can download it right here
http://www.wimpyplayer.com/products/wimpy_standalone_flv_player.html
Put it anywhere you want to. It doesn't need to be installed on your computer
When you open it, it looks like this:
To play an flv file with Wimpy FLV Player
all you do is drag the file into the window & it starts playing it.
It's That Simple!
If you do not have a video on your recording
NO Problem!! It will still play the Audio portion for you
This is the best way to quickly preserve your recordings from SingSnap & get them onto your own computer.
Later you can still use a program such as Total Recorder Standard Edition, (cost is $17.95)
to record the audio and save it as a wav file or even an mp3 file.
I can also teach you how to use a program called SoftCam (cost is $49.95)
With SoftCam, you can create an AVI file from your flv file and then the AVI file can be burned onto a DVD
(so you can watch your videos on a DVD player)
OR, if you have SoftCam, you could use it in combination with Windows Movie Maker
to create a WMV file from your recordings. The possibilities are limitless
Video Capture Add-on in combination with Total Recorder Professional cost $71.90
but I believe that the best value is the Total Recorder Standard Edition (for only the audio stuff)
and get the SoftCam for when you want to do a Video Capturing & Audio combination
because SoftCam has a lot of other cool features you can use when recording on SingSnap
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If you have NOT emptied your Temp folder
you can still recover any songs that you have listened to on your PC.
ALL listened to songs, are stored in your Temp Folder.
You simply need to know what to look for.
The files are already flv files but most folks are unable to view their file extensions
Step 1: Here is what you do 1st, inorder to view your file extensions
Open ANY folder on your computer
then under TOOLS , click on Folder Options
Folder Options window will pop up
You will then see some TABS, click on the VIEW tab
There is a box with some Advanced Settings.
You need to UN-check the box that says Hide extensions for known files types
Click Apply to All Folders & then Click OK
This will allow you to see all file extensions when you are viewing your Temporary folder
file extensions look like this:
.wav .mp3 .flv .doc .txt .gif .jpg .mpg .avi .rtf .wps .html etc.....
Look at this folder on my computer:
On Your computer you would most likely not be seeing the .flv at the end of each file name
(until you do what I instructed in Step 1)
Step 2: Here is what you do next:
Go to Start, then All Programs
to Open your Internet Explorer browser
Now Click on Tools & then click on Internet Options
Internet Options window will now pop up
under Browsing history, Click on the Settings button
Another window pops up
Temporary Internet Files and History Settings
Now click on the View files button
Now a folder will finally open up called Temporary Internet Files
Now to make it easier to find ALL of your flv files
Click on View & make certain the black dot is next to List (so files are viewed as a list)
Move on down to Arrange Icons by & then select Type
This will cause ALL of your flv files to group together so they are easier to find
Now Highlight ALL of the flv files at the same time
Next, click on Edit & then click on Copy To Folder
Here is a screen shot of my Temporary Internet Files with seven flv files grouped together
After you click on Copy To Folder, another window will pop up
Simply browse to where ever you want to copy the files to on your computer
Then Click on the Copy button
You are now finished
and you can close your Temporary Internet Files window
You will also need to close the two windows that got you there in the first place.
You can click either OK or the Cancel buttons
Your recordings are now safe in the folder where you copied them to.
Feel free to rename them, once you view them to see which ones they are.
but make certain that you do NOT remove the .flv extension at the end.
I hope this helps.
This is another starter page & I plan to add more good information for you, as time allows
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