Where the £¥@$ is this download??

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Situation.

Samsung S7 phone + BBC Sounds app

The app gives the option of Downloading tracks such as 'Mindful Mix', 'All Day Happy Mix', 'Cbeebies Calming Sounds' and so on.

I've tried downloading on a desktop, but couldn't find the Download button.

My phone has just spent the best part of half an hour 'downloading' an hour's Mindful Mix - The Sleeping Forecast and now I can't find it.

It's not in My Files under Downloads, Audio or Videos and I don't know where else to look.

Where is this berluddy file?

Android gives each app its own private storage space which isn't accessible to anything else. I don't know but I suspect that is where BBC Sounds stores its downloads. If that is the case I'm afraid you won't find them with any other app and won't be able to transfer them to your PC.

i think you might be able to transfer them to your pc if it has stored them in a non-proprietry standard format .mp3 .wav or whatever. I do this all the time.

You need to connect the phone to your computer using the charging cable, and then look at the notifications on the phone and select the right Android USB setting that will then make the phones file system show up as a drive on your laptop. Something like "transferring files" rather than "charging only".

Then keep it connected and browse to whatever had no turned up in windows explorer for the phone and drill down into the file system and try and find where the app is storing stuff, should be called something like BBC sounds and see if the file is there in an accessible format.

I do this all the time to copy and save whatsapp images and videos for example.

It might not be possible though if the store things in a proprietry format like for example spotify does but maybe worth a look, I think iplayer does as well so probably not .....

Would you not access the file from the BBC Sounds app though on your phone once its downloaded though - so accessing it locally without having to be online - like if you download a program on iplayer?

i think you might be able to transfer them to your pc if it has stored them in a non-proprietry standard format .mp3 .wav or whatever

Only if it has stored them in public storage. The information I've seen on this app suggests it stores them in private storage that is only accessible to the BBC Sounds app.

Thanks.

Connecting the phone to the computer looks like a next step.

I'll try over the weekend.