grrr

[mmcirvin]

If you select "Open in iTunes" on a link to an MP3 in Safari, it conveniently downloads it into iTunes... but the weird little radio-wave icon next to it means that it's been loaded as an audio stream, which means that you can't sync it to your iPod or burn or convert it. So don't do that.

Comments

[chicken-cem.livejournal.com]

Well damn, that explains a lot. :-(

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

Yup, you have to download it somewhere else and then drag it into iTunes to get it loaded properly, as far as I can tell.

[sunburn.livejournal.com]

No way to change the behavior of file-handling in Safari?

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

Just clicking on an MP3 link opens it in Safari itself, and I don't think that can be changed (nor would I really want to change it anyway). There's an option to open what the prefs call '"safe" files' (e.g. pictures, sounds, PDFs...) in the external default opener for those files after downloading them, which in this case would be iTunes. But I'd really rather leave that as a manual decision in most cases.

It's easy enough to do through the downloads window. So, come to think of it, dragging the file into iTunes is probably not necessary; double-clicking on it in the downloads window is probably enough.