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- N3wtR0ckn13, on 10/12/2007, -4/+30why do this, last.fm is an awesome site.
- punkrockxtian, on 10/12/2007, -2/+25Maybe I'm just really lazy but that seems like a lot of work for a song. I could see this become practical when we run out of ideas to piss off the RIAA.
- lament, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20isn't bittorrent a little easier?
- agrabob, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20How do I get the Protected Media Path thing on linux? It needs to be protected right? its important!
- schestowitz, on 10/12/2007, -7/+24Actually, using theis set of tools, virtually any stream can be output to a file. Even DRM'd content isn't protected, unless of course you use Vista with "premium content", crambled signal, and special 'certified' hardware to *cough* unscramble the signals. There are workarounds for that as well. And "premium content" was cracked a month ago (proof of concept).
- Charlesbian, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14i think what he means is, ripping music in a way an already awesome free website didn't mean to let you do, or intended, seems wrong as it could have secondary effects that have complications beyond yourself. Maybe I dont know the whole picture, but this seems the same in idea as the howto rip mp3's for pandora, which has a license that only allows the service to stream music, not let u rip it, thus the howto could potentially cause legal issues. I would feel dirty doing this...but those are just my own set of morals.
- link_36p, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Another useful ripping technique that can be applied to any stream you would view but cant normally save (easilly)
mkfifo pipe; mplayer -vo null -ao pcm:file=pipe my_stream_URI; lame -h pipe my_new.mp3; rm pipe; - bigtomrodney, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7If I'm going to steal music though, I don't think I'd do it from Last.fm or Pandora for that matter. They are good services and I reckon it's only a matterr of time before the RIAA start gunning for them. I'll stick to Bittorrent or some P2P software, I don't want to make these guys targets. Not to mention it's only 128Kbps.
- cw1925, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Or, http://audacity.sourceforge.net
- jopsen, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7If anyones interested I wrote an last.fm ripper as a school project, written in C#/.Net/Mono available for Windows, Linux and OS X... Currently not all yet completely stable, but getting there...
Take a look at it: http://code.google.com/p/thelastripper/ (It has a GUI, even if the GUI freezes sometimes, bugfix on the way) - spvaland, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Bittorrent is safe if you don't download crappy music.
- XVampireX, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6It's a thread about Linux, not about Windows. schestowitz is not guilty and won't be guilty even in a Windows thread, he only speaks the truth :D
- mointrigue, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This article is referring to the Last.fm radio stations which do play full songs. As some others have said, I wouldn't feel right doing this on last.fm, but this is a neat trick regardless.
- aspirinetu, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5oh thanks. i'll keep using soulseek, anyway.
- nandasunu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3thats a great utility, thanks! It seems a lot easier to use, great job.
- INightmare, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4The problem is that you can't play song you want and will probably end up deleting the bigger part. ;)
- Salzar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2yes exactly, now make the last.fm stream with the proxy, its like 2 guides in one
- OAKsider, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yes it is, and I don't even want to know how low the bitrates are on these streams.
But it is probably better than spending any money on 128 kbps legal downloads. - clickmyface, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6So, i'm confused, how is finding new ways to take music that we didnt buy a good way to prove that RIAA blows?
I mean I get the DRM and fair use argument. That makes sense. But this certainly doesnt.
I'm for music industry reform, and they may very well reform. The problem is that these companies have some of the biggest lobbyists in the world and whats more likely to happen is that laws are going to be changed and the internet is going to take a shift from the user to the corperation and we're going to lose rights because we keep abusing our freedom. Yes, we have been abusing the internet quite a bit. Myself included. - dugem1, on 01/26/2008, -0/+1That's great find
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http://hyipnews.freehostia.com/hyip - mayo2000, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Great job. I didn't expect to work it on my openSUSE.
- pyrophire, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Actually since the proxy is in python and streamripper works on any OS, this works for pretty much everyone, not just linux users.
- handcoding, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I prefer to use Streamripper for ripping NPR, myself:
http://www.handcoding.com/archives/2005/03/20/ripping-npr-to-mp3-for-an-ipod/ - xWintermute, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Funny how this is on the front page with the "Save Internet Radio" story...
- mydave, on 07/28/2008, -0/+0hm. to change my mp3 player or not? I think no. my is better!
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http://www.trgovinca.org - BruceCage, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Abusing the Internet? I'm sorry but stop acting like this is illegal, it's not. As far as I know, recording music from a radio station (albeit it an Internet radio station) is perfectly legal (in my country at least). Even if it wasn't legal per law, to me it would still be morally 'right'.
- mayo2000, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Jopsen as you said it'll hangs when you don't click skip for a long time
- markdr123, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1But..the vast majority of songs on last.fm are 30 second previews. A lot of the full-length songs ARE actually free downloads.
http://www.last.fm/charts/free - MrMacMan, on 10/12/2007, -6/+5telling people a little known fact about last.fm doesn't make the service worse... it just adds a new dimension people might not have thought about before.
- raita, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Yeh, Last.fm is great and free! Go rip from rich label-companies instead.
- jake3988, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0For college students, it seems like this would be near impossible to get caught downloading music with in their dorms.
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I download my classic rock from gnutella all the time. I've never been spoken to. Maybe they haven't caught me, maybe they don't care, maybe they're surprised I'm downloading music that's 30 years old. Who knows.
But its classic rock, most of them are old or dead... so I don't feel bad. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1awesome, a ***** stream ripped to a ***** lossy format, great.
now can we get an article that explains how to rip morse code off the wire and write it out in braille - jake3988, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0If it is just plain harder with last.fm, then I'm wrong in it making it 10000x as hard. But shoutcast is easy to rip :)
- jake3988, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0The article makes it about 10000x as hard as it needs to be. I listen to shoutcast. Simply copy the stream name, say http://scfire-chi0l-2.stream.aol.com/stream/1023 for instance. and do this:
mplayer http://scfire-chi0l-2.stream.aol.com/stream/1023
streamripper http://scfire-chi0l-2.stream.aol.com/stream/1023
Viola. Rip it while listening to it. Streamripper even names the files for you! - LordSkywalker, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Does anyone have good links to guides for ripping from PureVolume and MySpace? Other than manually doing it with Acid?
- edein, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2off topic...i dont live on campus, but i do use my laptop often on campus. Does the dorm connection have unrestricted access to the net while wireless connection is restricted? Cause I can never start any download using the school wireless/ethernet connection. (p2p,bittorrent that is)
- jake3988, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0off topic...i dont live on campus, but i do use my laptop often on campus. Does the dorm connection have unrestricted access to the net while wireless connection is restricted? Cause I can never start any download using the school wireless/ethernet connection. (p2p,bittorrent that is)
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Bittorrent uses port 6881 which most universities (inc mine) block. You can probably use a proxy and get around it, but I wouldn't recommend it. (I do for ftp, but I digress)
Most internet radio stations (not all) use the default http port of 80 (which universities will obviously have open). Some use 7115(?) which is a growing alternative to port 80 so as to not push everything through one port. This in my case IS blocked.
The streamripper does work for my shoutcast station and its a fabulous piece of work. I give it a big thumbs-up. - eeg3, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3For college students, it seems like this would be near impossible to get caught downloading music with in their dorms.
- alamko1999, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2"why do this, last.fm is an awesome site."
yes last.fm is a awesome site but its one of the most hardest to hack eventually, with other site you can just use firefox with tamper data extension. - MannaPC, on 10/12/2007, -8/+3I believe this will also work on Windows PCs :).
- ScottyTee, on 10/12/2007, -8/+1ggid
- lolhax, on 10/12/2007, -19/+11***** you schestowitz.
Keep your anti-Microsoft agenda out of this thread. - consonance, on 10/12/2007, -15/+7What the hell? This is impossible. I mean, huh?
Someone must have hacked schestowitz's account, since his comment is free of ASCII quotes and/or derogatory statements about Microsoft! Not even an insult to Palladium? I feel gypped by Digg.
Oh wait, there's a swipe at Vista. All is well with the world. - schestowitz, on 10/12/2007, -22/+10Of course. You must have genuine 'advantage'*, as well as a 'trusted'* computing platform. It's much more 'protective'*.
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*/We/ have the advantage, we don't trust you, we need to protect ourselves from pirates (you!). - estvir, on 10/12/2007, -21/+5You just had to throw in the useless Microsoft bash, didn't you ? It was a good comment till than.
- otep, on 10/12/2007, -19/+2stealing art is still stealing. yeah. digg me down.
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