Help requested - downloading old song

I've been trying to find a site for free downloading of an old song - a
favourite of my mothers.

It is Gracie Fields, singing "Sally".

This goes back to 1931, so should be long out of copyright, but all I can
find in my clumsy attempts at searching, is sites selling albums.
I'm a bit nervous about trying to use a file sharing site as I understand
this is potentially dangerous.

Unfortunately it seems we will shortly be planning Mum's funeral, and I
would like to find this song for her as an mp3 file or something we can put
on a CD and play.

Thanks

John S

 

What about here?
http://new.music.yahoo.com/gracie-fields/
Convert the you-tube to just mp3?

 

Youtube

 

Sorry to hear about your mother, I hope the following instructions
help. These instructions are really simpler than they look and they
are step-by-step and at the end you will have an Mp3 file which I
presume you know how to use.

The song you are after appears to be available as a torrent file.
Torrent files are very small files that connect your computer to a
tracker that in turn connects you to other computers around the world
which have the files you want. However, in order to open torrent
files you need a special application. Vuze is one such application.
You can obtain Vuze from www.vuze.com or you can download their free
installer directly from:

http://hwcdn01.vuze.com/files/Vuze_Installer.exe

After you download and install this application on your computer any
torrent files you download will be opened within the Vuze application
which will then use those torrent files to connect to other computers
to obtain the files you want. So what are torrent files and where do
you get them?

Torrent files are small files that relate to a specific file or set of
files. For instance, if you want to download a song there may be a
torrent specifically relating to that song. There may be multiple
torrents relating to the same song. Or there may be a torrent that
includes the entire album, or even a torrent that has every song ever
made by the artist.

In order to get the torrent file you want there are search engines
available which allow you to search for different torrents based on
song title, artist or whatever. You may have heard of "The Pirate
Bay". The pirate bay is one such search engine. Another is Isohunt.
In this case I seem to have located the artist you want using
Isohunt. You can visit isohunt at:

www.isohunt.com

I searched 'Gracie Fields' at Isohunt and came up with several search
results. But what search result do you use? I chose a torrent titled
"1930's rare and popular music (3 of 6)". This torrent includes a
large amount of files (over a gigabyte) and among them is about 100
songs by Gracie Fields including the song Sally, a live version of
Sally and a medley version. For this specific torrent go to:

http://isohunt.com/torrent_details/28153895/Gracie+Fields?tab=summary

This is an Isohunt page describing the contents of the torrent file
and is not the torrent file itself. To download the torrent click the
link near the top of the page which says "Download .torrent". A
dialog box should open and if Vuze is already installed when you open
the file it should open in Vuze automatically.

Once the torrent file is opened in Vuze it will start downloading the
contents of the torrent. Since you probably don't want an entire
gigabyte of music and you only want one song, right click on the
torrent in Vuze and select "Show details". From here it will open
several tabs which contain details about the torrent you are
downloading. There should be a tab called "Files". This tab lists
all the files contained in the torrent. Click on this tab. Select
all the files under this tab by holding Ctrl+A. Right-click and
select 'priority' and then select "Do not download" (or something like
that). This will stop Vuze from downloading any of the files in the
torrent. Then scroll down under the files tab until you find the
Gracie Fields song you want. Right click on the song and then select
"priority" and then "high". This will start Vuze downloading only
that file.

Once the download is complete it will be saved to your Vuze
directory. On Vista it is usually something like C:\Users
\Administrator\Documents\Vuze Downloads\

If you have any trouble following these instructions or get stuck
along the way ask a followup question and I'll try to help if I can.

Just some notes on privacy and security. Bittorent is not anonymous
so if you were to download a copyrighted movie which is just out at
the cinemas someone may be recording your activity. But rest assured
it is extremely unlikely that any record company is looking for people
downloading Gracie Fields especially if it is no longer protected
under copyright. As for security like anything on the internet
torrents could contain viruses. The Isohunt link I gave you looks
reliable to me, but you should still ensure you have up-to-date anti-
virus installed.


Oh and btw, don't use bittorent to download copyrighted works because
that is bad and very very naughty.



Cheers,



Weihana.

 

There are at least 10 versions here:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Gracie+Fields+Sally

Pick one of them and then learn how to download it.
e.g. Google for Youtube Downloader.

 

John, I have 3 x mp3 versions of this song

1. Gracie Fields - Sally 1934 (live) 128kbps 2.86 MB
2. Gracie Fields - Sally [medley] 1932 128kbps 3.71 MB
3. Gracie Fields - Sally 1931 128kbps 2.86 MB

am happy to e-mail them to you
cheers

Whoops

 

SNIPPED - lots of very detailed information on how to set up to download
files via torrent.

Very many thanks for all the trouble you took to provide this explanation
for me. It won't be wasted, as I will later experiment with using the
methods you have explained.

Right now though, another poster has offered to email me what I'm after and
I'm taking the easy way out and accepting. Time for me is precious at the
moment, so I'm not spending any more time at the computer that necessary.

Once again, my grateful thanks.

John S

 

That would be marvellous.

my email can be constructed:-

domain is gmail.com

and I'm oakeny at that domain.

Thanks indeed.

Regards,

John S

 

Just want to say thanks to all who replied and tried to help.

Never thought of youtube as I don't use it (old dog - new tricks)!

I've accepted the offer of "Whoops" to email me the files - the easy way
out which I much appreciate, but I will look into youtube and try to
educate my self in its mysteries.

Cheers,

John S

 

Many thanks,

Have downloaded OK.

John S