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Download availability
Downloading backing tracks from wikiloops requires a wikiloops members account.
Members who are using a free members account may only download a limited amount of tracks per day, as offered in the membership comparison table.
Music downloads from wikiloops are offered in various audio download formats, most prominently .mp3.
The availability of higher quality .wav files and the encoding quality of the available .mp3s generally depend on what the creator of the track uploaded, only the audio format which is being streamed to the wikiloops audio player is definitely available for download.
Tracks which include single track attachments are labelled with the "HD" icon on the download button.
If the presence of such single attachments is relevant to you, you may set the "Single tracks" filter under Extras to spot tracks with attached single tracks.
Downloading mixed tracks and single track attachments
Given that you are logged in to your members account, you may download tracks by clicking on the "Download" button offered below each audio player on wikiloops.
A pop-up dialogue opens which offers the button(s) to start the file download(s).
The top segment of the selection dialogue offers the "mixed" download(s).
This is the audio "as heard" in the online player, containing all instruments mixed into one file.
Where available, the second segment of the dialogue offers the single track attachments, each containing only the stated instrument as shared by the contributors.
Click on the offered buttons to choose the file(s) to download.
Depending on your standard download settings, a second dialogue will ask you where to store the file, or it will be stored to your default "downloaded files" folder.
Close the download dialogue once you are done starting downloads, you may continue browsing the site as the files are downloaded in the background.
How downloads are counted in free membership accounts
Free members may only download a limited number of tracks per day.
When keeping record of the number of downloaded tracks to apply this per-user limit, wikiloops counts the number of tracks whose downloads you accessed, not the number of files you actually downloaded.
Accessing one track's downloads counts as one download regardless of how many single track attachments of that track you fetch. So if you download the mixed mp3 plus three single tracks of the same track, that still counts as just one download against your daily limit.
The 24-hour download timeout actually waits 24 hours from your first download of the day — it is not tied to a calendar day, so if you started downloading at 4pm yesterday, your counter resets at 4pm today.
help article was written by Richard Kaiser on and last edited on
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