Heartland

Useful little tool this :

http://www.mouseindustries.com/gopher/

If you go to a MySpace page, on the address bar there is usually an FriendID number. If there is just the name of the page (www.myspace.com/NAME) then click on the photos and you should be able to see the FriendID in the address bar then.

Dead easy little program to use. You can use as multiple copies of it at one time although, if you do that I suggest once you press play to start the download, you press pause straight afterwards (the song keeps downloading in the meantime) otherwise you can end up with a load of songs all playing at the same time.

The MP3s are encoded in MPEG2 layer 3 at 96kbits which although isn't the greatest quality, they are quite listenable to.

Yeah, but will it work on a Mac? Pfffft.

Who the hell uses a Mac?!

Well, for those unfortunate souls, you could always have a read of THIS ARTICLE and use the plugin things they're talking about.

Watch it, man. Them's fightin' words.

Heh, bring it on (except when Mr Blast comes back online, then I'll cower in a corner)

You'd be well-advised to cower in a corner when dealing with *me*, too, sir...just ask the Leeds contingent!

yes Sir...erm Ma'am...erm Boss!

Smart man.

Now, where were we?

SINsister wrote:
Now, where were we?

You were complaining that Macs were limited in their use. At least, that's the way i read it.

CellThree wrote:

SINsister wrote:
Now, where were we?

You were complaining that Macs were limited in their use. At least, that's the way i read it.

Them's STILL fighting words!


IZ.

SINsister wrote:You'd be well-advised to cower in a corner when dealing with *me*, too, sir...just ask the Leeds contingent!

Actually, she's right. 6'1" of beautiful, but "no-messin'" Sinnie.

SINsister wrote:You'd be well-advised to cower in a corner when dealing with *me*, too, sir...just ask the Leeds contingent!

Bollox. She's a pussy-cat C3, trust me.

*time to go into hiding in Croatia for a week methinks*

I am watching all of you...

I use this here Wire Tap Pro thingey

CellThree wrote: The MP3s are encoded in MPEG2 layer 3 at 96kbits which although isn't the greatest quality, they are quite listenable to.

Personally I wouldn't normally touch anything below 160kbps with a bargepole, and the fact that it came from myspazz doesn't make it very attractive either

Seriously, why not use something like Total Recorder? Basically it will record ANY sound you can hear through your speakers, at any bitrate and format you like.

If you use Firefox (and I know some of you do) then you ust grab yourself the Firebug extension.

It's meant for testing or debugging web pages but it also tracks what a page is doing.

You can choose a MySpace tune and see the link to the "standard" version appear as it builds the stream. Copy this path and alter the bit that says "std_" to "full_" and get the better version for downloading - even if the site wasn't meant to let you. No 96k rubbish here!

And the over the top solution
http://www.etcetera.co.uk/products/EDI015.shtml

Carpathian Psychonaut wrote:If you use Firefox (and I know some of you do) then you ust grab yourself the Firebug extension.

It's meant for testing or debugging web pages but it also tracks what a page is doing.

You can choose a MySpace tune and see the link to the "standard" version appear as it builds the stream. Copy this path and alter the bit that says "std_" to "full_" and get the better version for downloading - even if the site wasn't meant to let you. No 96k rubbish here!

When I plug the resulting link in, I get a "401: Unauthorized" error - how are you working around this, or am I doing something wrong?

Carpathian Psychonaut wrote:If you use Firefox (and I know some of you do) then you ust grab yourself the Firebug extension.

It's meant for testing or debugging web pages but it also tracks what a page is doing.

You can choose a MySpace tune and see the link to the "standard" version appear as it builds the stream. Copy this path and alter the bit that says "std_" to "full_" and get the better version for downloading - even if the site wasn't meant to let you. No 96k rubbish here!

Ah, the MPEG2 Layer 3 96kb has better sound than a normal MP3 at 96kb (as this is MEG1 Layer 3). I don't really understand the whole mechanics behind it though. Anyway, I'm gonna have a look at that Firefox extension...

DerekR wrote:
Seriously, why not use something like Total Recorder? Basically it will record ANY sound you can hear through your speakers, at any bitrate and format you like.

There isn't any point as the stream you get from the site is still the same MPEG2. If you recode it in a higher bitrate, it doesn't improve the sound quality.

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Just tried this. Got the same result as Sinny : 401 Forbidden. That's a bugger.

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Well, this'll have me remove all my songs. Organized thievery, this...

Ahráyeph wrote:Well, this'll have me remove all my songs. Organized thievery, this...

Just put up an edited (for example, shortened) version...

Oh, ARF, sweetie - who but hardcore, die-hard folks are going to go to all this trouble for a MySpace .mp3? Seriously.