Is there a way to save mp3's off the Garritan site?

[dnortana]

I was listening through the Garritan.com site, and found so much material that I would like to download and keep in my mp3 player - if they are legitimately available. But, it seems all I can do is play back, not save.

Any insights from anyone?

Trond

[webbiedave]

Well, if it turns out that they're in fact legitimately available, I'll chime in with some methods of saving them. Let's wait and see what those in authority say.

[raweber]

Key, Trond, which mp3s are you talking about? The Christmas ones are all available freely for download, and pretty much everything with an mp3 link (rather than a dedicated streaming player) are fair game. Just right click on the link and pick "Save As" (IE) or "Save Link As" (Firefox).

[germancomponist]

When you not want to sell them, I think you are allowed to download all pieces on Gary`s website.

[dominick]

Usually a right click and save target should work if a download is permissible, otherwise, you would not see the save target option.

However, just checking the site, I have noticed that the flash player is now used on the demo page, whereas before you could do the right click option, which I did.

Assuming you want the files for personal use, a second option I have used in the past is to simply record the song as it is played and save as an mp3. Any recording DAW could be used, or a free program like Audacity.

Since these files were available in the past for download, they should be available now as well ... one might assume ...

[dnortana]

Dominick,

Thanks. Yes, my interest is purely personal, to add the pieces to my mp3 player to listen to on my many long airplane flights.

The ones I am interested in are played from the site, and there is no apparent right click and save approach. Recording seems like such a cumbersome approach. Is this what Gary intended?

Thanks for the help,
Trond

[dominick]

Dominick,

Thanks. Yes, my interest is purely personal, to add the pieces to my mp3 player to listen to on my many long airplane flights.

The ones I am interested in are played from the site, and there is no apparent right click and save approach. Recording seems like such a cumbersome approach. Is this what Gary intended?

Thanks for the help,
Trond

I forgot I downloaded all the samples when I first discovered this site last year, and most of the selections have a title and/or artist name. If you send me a PM with a list of what you want to hear, I could send them to you with a couple e-mails.

Looking over my files, it appears that many of the demos were on the old Garritan demo page, but there are considerably more than that from the old demo page. I imagine some of the best were just migrated to the new demo page, or maybe re-rendered by running them through the Aria player effects and controls; however, I would guess that most of the samples would otherwise remain the same.

If you want all the old demos, I could burn them on a DVD and send them to you - there are 420 files and about 1.8 GBs of music - bit rates vary, with most at 128 kbps to 192 kbps and above.