IPhones cannot do everything a laptop computer can do, but with a few extra apps it’s possible to do more with ZIP (compressed) files than some people realize.We have already explained how to move music from iPhone to iPhone, and we have archived here five common ways you can use to transfer photos from iPhone to a Mac computer.
In this post I’ll explain how to use the Puffin web browser (free), Dropbox app (free), and Goodreader for iPhone ($5), to download a ZIP file from a website, uncompress it and listen to individual audio files contained in it.
Today I replied to a tweet by someone who had been unsuccessful downloading a free ZIP file of music files from a local band’s website on her mobile phone. I suggested using the app Goodreader for iPhone ($5). The steps to do this are a bit tricky, so this probably isn’t something a majority of iPhone users are going to want to do. If you have access to one, it’s easier to do these steps on a laptop or desktop computer. If you don’t have access to a full-blown computer for some reason, however, it can be handy to add these apps and techniques to your personal iOS toolkit. The apps I describe in this post are also available for iPad. The Charlie Hall Band (from Oklahoma City) is giving away a free “Christmas Bundle Pack” of songs on their website.
To download the digital songs as a zip file, however, you must enter your email address into a web form on their homepage. On a laptop or desktop computer, this triggers an automatic download of an approximately 13 MB ZIP file containing the free songs. On an iPhone, using either the Safari or Chrome web browsers, however, the zip file on this page won’t download. That’s because Safari and Chrome are programmed not to download ZIP files on iOS.
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