Get Collection

eMusic.com provides a web page called "My Collection" that shows a list of all tracks downloaded by a subscriber. However, this page initially presents only the names of all the "artists" -- that is, the performers -- in your collection. To see the albums produced by each artist, a button must be clicked to "expand" each artist's entry, which causes a request to be made of eMusic's servers, to deliver a new copy of the page, this time including that artist's albums.

For each artist of interest, a separate click must be made, and the user must wait for new copy of the page to be produced after the round-trip to eMusic.com's servers. As the resulting page can be lengthy as well, a single round-trip can take several seconds.

Then, for each album, yet another click, and round-trip, and another delivery of the (mostly redundant) page is required to display that album's tracks.

Worse yet, eMusic times out a user's session, requiring a re-logon, after about 15 minutes -- and redirects the user to a non-existent address for logging in! Once the user has actually managed to re-logon, any information about which albums or tracks the user has "expanded" is lost -- the user must start all over again

Taken together, these deficiencies make it nearly impossible to use the eMusic.com "My Collection" page to manage a collection consisting of more than a small handful of albums.

Get Collection is a program that transforms the eMusic.com "My Collection" page into a local page, stored on your own hard drive, with artists already expanded.

That page include links back to both your "My Collection" page and to the separate "Artist" and "Album" pages at eMusic represented in your collection, in case you want to get new works by the same artist.

From the page produced by Get Collection, you can click to go directly to a link for downloading the tracks or albums you want -- and far more quickly than you could do it through eMusic.com's "My Collection" page.