The purpose of our SoundCheck page is to offer people new to downloading music files, working with FLAC, and/or MP3's, the ability to practice the download process with no costs involved.  We are confident that once you successfully download and burn from our SoundCheck area that you will be comfortable in moving to the next step at our site which is purchasing and downloading shows and the studio recordings offered at our Artist partner pages.

The steps that need to be taken here are essentially the same as they will be once you have purchased a show or studio recording. The steps are:

Step 1. Is the FLAC frontend already installed on your computer?
If you plan on downloading a FLAC file, now is a good time to download the FLAC frontend.
Click here for the FLAC Frontend

Once the download of the FLAC Frontend is complete, install it onto your computer.  We recommend that you add the program icon to your desktop.

FLAC FAQ

Step 2. Click on the file link at the bottom of this page.
A dialog window will open and ask where you would like to save the file to on your hard drive.  Suggestions: Create a folder in your directory structure and title it DigitalSoundboard.  Within that folder create a new folder with the Artist name that corresponds to your download.  Set that folder as the directory destination for the download.  If all of this is way too much for you to handle, have the file download to your desktop. It will be easy to locate on your desktop. Note: you will then want to create a DigitalSoundboard directory on your hard drive which to store your music files.

Step 3.  The file is on my computer.  Now what?
If you downloaded an MP3, it is ready to go.  You can now burn the file to disc or load it into you MP3 player.
If you downloaded a FLAC file, now is the time to open up the FLAC frontend that you installed minutes ago.

Click on Add Files. In your directory structure, find the FLAC file that you downloaded.  It will be added into the white box in the frontend utility under Files.  A single left mouse click on the file will highlight it.  Next do a single left click on the Decode button and your FLAC file will soon uncompress and a new WAV file will be added to your directory structure.  WOOHOO!  Now burn that file to a blank cd-r and you are officially now a savvy music file downloader/burner.  Congratulations, you are now free to move about DigitalSoundboard.net.  
 

Click here to do a test download of an audio file in flac format
Click here to do a test download of an audio file in mp3 format