Anybody know how to email a song after downloading from Napster?

Any help would be appreciated. I know the purpose of Napster is to help people share music but I have some friends who don’t have Napster and I really want to share a comedy routine with them (Jessie Jackson reading Green Eggs and Ham from Saturday Night Live, it is hilarious!)

Attach it to the email just like anything else. For example, Outlook Express has an “Attachment” button that looks like a paperclip. Start a new message, click this button, then tell the computer where to get the file (the default for Napster 2.7b is C:\Program Files\Napster\Music).

if you don’t use Outlook Express, what e-mail program do you use?

Only follow this advice if you have permission to redistribute the file from it’s copyright holder, yada, yada, yada…

Also, be aware that since email protocols are very inefficient for transferring large quantities of data, that many administrators of email servers put limits on what can be sent or received through their servers. Many ISP’s limit outbound email attachments to around 1 megabyte. Incoming size limits are less common, but do exist as well.

So if you are trying to do this, and are getting some kind of an error email back, it may not be your fault.

Oh yeah, be sure to observe and comply with copyrights. :slight_smile:

Enos thanks, your advice allowed me to see outside the box and realize that I was simply sending a shortcut to the song instead of the real thing. As I type this, I am sending 1.4 mb of Jessie Jackson off to my buddy in San Diego. Ain’t email fun?

You might be better off going to a storage website such as freedrive.com, upload your mp3 files there, and give your friends the password for access to those files.

I would make sure your recipient is cool with really large attachments first. When I was doing dialup support, one of our most common calls was when someone had a large email in their POP box and the computer would hang on it. Also, lots of people have a quota on how much mail they can have in their box, it’s quite possible to drive someone over their quota with an MP3-sized file, causing all other email sent to them to bounce back to the sender.

Is it possible for that friend to download directly from there onto a CDR? Keeping in mind of course, that all copyrights are protected, and said friend would not be violating any copyright laws.

Thanks

Quasi

If your e-mail provider (or the recipient’s) doesn’t allow large files, you might consider using a progam to break up the MP3 into fragments, and send send those pieces individually. The recipient may need the program too, to “put the fragments back together”. Admittedly, I have never used a such a program, but I know they exist. However, off the top of my head I can’t even suggest the name of such a program.

I think the easiest way would just to send the file over an instant messaging service like AIM or ICQ (and I’m sure others like Yahoo IM have the same file transfer function, but I’ve never used it).

Good luck.