I chose DropBox, since this will let me access the files later from another computer (like my laptop) if I want.Īfter you login to your Dropbox account and grant the Puffin browser permission to use your account, Puffin will create a new folder in an “Apps” folder of your Dropbox account. When you enter your email address on the website and submit the form, a menu is displayed in Puffin asking if you want to save the downloaded ZIP file to your device (phone) or to DropBox. The browser which DOES work, and is free, is Puffin. The Goodreader app has a web browser feature, but for some reason it won’t work on this site either to download the ZIP file. That’s because Safari and Chrome are programmed not to download ZIP files on iOS. On an iPhone, using either the Safari or Chrome web browsers, however, the zip file on this page won’t download. On a laptop or desktop computer, this triggers an automatic download of an approximately 13 MB ZIP file containing the free songs. To download the digital songs as a zip file, however, you must enter your email address into a web form on their homepage. The Charlie Hall Band (from Oklahoma City) is giving away a free “Christmas Bundle Pack” of songs on their website. The apps I describe in this post are also available for iPad. 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. If you have access to one, it’s easier to do these steps on a laptop or desktop computer. 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. I suggested using the app Goodreader for iPhone ($5).

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. 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. 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.

How to open a zip file on an iphone