What is Digg?Sponsored by Travelzoo
All-time Low Fares for Thanksgiving, Christmas & New Year view!
travelzoo.com - Flights $52 and up. Nifty all-airline calendar identifies absolute cheapest dates to fly.
102 Comments
- Smuikas, on 01/28/2009, -6/+74Seriously? Pandora is having trouble staying up as is, and you want to pirate music from them now?
Irresponsible selfish *****. - vinceislegend, on 01/28/2009, -1/+58They forgot the part about the god-awful sound quality. You'd be lucky to even get 128kbps from one of these sites--the majority offer 96kbps or less.
Call me a buzzkill, but pass. - veriix, on 01/28/2009, -0/+54So you mean I don't have to play it into my tape player then play the tape player into my pc's mic?
- inactive, on 01/28/2009, -2/+56noooo don't do it!!! next these sites will be shut down. just torrent the ***** if your that desperate.
- J0hnnyBlaze, on 01/28/2009, -1/+36aka How To Download ***** Quality Music In A Roundabout Way
- newman8r, on 01/28/2009, -1/+35Pandora is the last place I'd try to download songs from
Pandora is one answer and one solution to the whole music piracy situation. If you like the song that you heard for free, then click the button to buy it.
Don't be a douche... just listen to the music for free and enjoy it - Shiftgood, on 01/28/2009, -2/+33yup..do we really need to rape everything on the net? places like Pandora are already having a really tough time giving us an awesome and FREE website... i cant say this will help keep and honest business afloat.
- AlanFang, on 01/28/2009, -2/+25Or you could just torrent them...
- username7410, on 01/28/2009, -2/+25If you're going to steal music just steal it. Ripping it from a crappy stream doesn't make it any less unethical or illegal.
- megamod, on 01/28/2009, -1/+22seems a bit like overkill
- newman8r, on 01/28/2009, -1/+21I think ripping it from Pandora makes it more unethical
- DivisibleByZero, on 01/28/2009, -2/+20I tried PandoraJam, but I find something contradictory about paying for the ability to steal things. Anybody know where I can get a good pirated copy of it?
- grimacebrown, on 01/28/2009, -4/+19It's almost as if the person who posted the article ISN'T aware that 80% of everybody on the internet pirates music...
- hooges, on 01/28/2009, -0/+12Lets just not kill Pandora guys. It is a great free service that is a valuable addition to the interwebs.
- talkingwires, on 01/28/2009, -0/+10I've just been holding a microphone up to my computer's speakers.
- parestrep, on 01/28/2009, -3/+12***** THE RIAA.
- scooterbaga, on 01/28/2009, -2/+11You could always send yourself a link to the page in an email. It's right there in the right click menu.
Ass. - ileftfark, on 01/28/2009, -2/+10I very rarely come across a song I can't find using g2p.org or skreemr.com or freemusiczilla. Download Helper for Firefox is also great for downloading music videos, and it converts for you on the fly. These options are all simply using http requests, so no RIAA monitoring.
- MasterQ, on 01/28/2009, -0/+8*raises glass* here here!
- imomo, on 01/28/2009, -1/+9Tip: piratebay
- divineElectric, on 01/28/2009, -2/+9Of all the people in this world to screw, you're gonna screw the musicians you like? Of all the ways to save money, you're gonna settle for poor sound quality music? Great Job!
- haydesigner, on 01/28/2009, -2/+9WayGroovy deserved a bit of a bitch slap, but his comeback:
"And look you even signed your comment. How sweet."
just rocked. - linagee, on 01/28/2009, -1/+8Govt already does this for us.
- KloroFormd, on 01/28/2009, -0/+6***** agreed with huge amounts of ***** agreement. *****.
This is why we can't have nice things. - dshigure, on 01/28/2009, -1/+7All moral issues aside, amongst the convenience and quality drawbacks, there is one distinct advantage this technique offers: everything happening outside the privacy of your local host is a completely legitimate action, thus someone using this method can't effectively be tracked.
This should fall under the category of "take music you have legitimate temporary access to, and copy it to a format that is permanent." More like ripping a CD you borrowed from a friend than torrenting. - Jonesyxxiv, on 01/28/2009, -0/+6but that would be too easy.
- maximilen, on 01/28/2009, -3/+9Much easier to just get a program that records directly off your sound card (obviously with no loss), and save any audio without restrictions to the file format you want (mp3, wav etc.) Google around, I use Total Recorder.
- DyceFreak, on 01/28/2009, -0/+5yea, I was about to say... Pandora has enough problems without people downloading the songs... They've almost been shut down, twice...
- stizmatic, on 01/28/2009, -2/+7I use PandoraJam for downloading from Pandora. It costs a few bucks but its great. Pandora plays straight through the app. It also automatically names the song, downloads artwork, and imports it into your itunes library.
- CurrentALL700, on 01/28/2009, -1/+6this is retarded, just buy the music, it costs cheaper than jamba juice for crying out loud
- chriscim, on 01/28/2009, -0/+5Not sure why you're getting dugg down...it's true.
- inactive, on 01/28/2009, -0/+5I'm ready for tomorrow's story - Pandora and Deezer shut down by the RIAA
- CYR1X, on 01/28/2009, -0/+4Ugh transcoding is murder for music.
- justindersham, on 01/28/2009, -2/+6BitTorrent?
- Hindermore, on 01/28/2009, -0/+4Or you can just use Firebug... Takes like 5 sec.
- Smuikas, on 01/28/2009, -0/+4Or, you know, buy from the affiliate links.
- Charlotte_Web, on 01/29/2009, -0/+4I wanted to read this while standing in the checkout line at the grocery store, so I'll just put my shopping list in here, too, so you got a comment:
eggs
milk
butter
Captain Crunch Crunchberries
Ho-Ho's - Georgy, on 01/28/2009, -0/+4First we throw a big fuss about how the RIAA is ***** with us, trying to shut down services like Pandora, then we pull ***** like this.
sure ***** the RIAA! - buddypriefert, on 01/28/2009, -1/+5Or just pay $0.99/MP3 on Amazon for higher quality and then use the time you spent dickering with all of the mouse traps by valuing your time getting a real job that will pay far more than the lame job you have now which forces you to waste time cracking things for "free".
- inactive, on 01/28/2009, -0/+4That's like what I do, only I just sing the songs into the microphone.
- Smuikas, on 01/28/2009, -1/+4And if you pay for the subscription, you don't need adblock..
It's not like the subscription is expensive, either. $36 annually? Hell, I pay it and I'm unemployed. $3 a month is cheaper than netflix. Ten cents a day. XM is $17 a month, and you'll likely get more music you like off your pandora station! - cadmiumpaint, on 01/28/2009, -0/+3It takes a lot of time and effort to be a cheap ass...its not even like the quality is that good.
- WayGroovy, on 01/29/2009, -1/+4Thanks. And yeah, I did. At the time I made the comment I thought the article was poorly written, and was unsure of the program that it was linking to. I was on my work computer and didn't want to install that on anything but a junk machine. Hence the comment. Sure, I could've done any number of things, but on an item that had, at the time, around 27 diggs I didn't think bookmarking it would last.
For shame, a worthless comment. Whod've thought. - harrydeforest, on 01/28/2009, -0/+3So it's not enough just hear any song for free any time you're connected to the internet? Now you have to own it for fee as well?
I'm not a fan of record companies: their stupidity and shortsightedness over the last 15 years is legend. But by refusing to pay for the songs you deem worthy enough to load on your iPod, you're going to hasten the demise of free streaming. The record companies will fight back.
On Songfacts, we introduced some widgets that will let you hear most of the songs while you read about them. It's a great feature, but if enough people insist on hacking the Flash to grab the songs instead of ponying up the 99 cents to just buy it, you can bet it will go away. - tslining, on 01/28/2009, -1/+4How is this any better than hitting "Record" on Audacity (free from Sourceforge)?
It seems to me that recording with Audacity is easier and you have a little bit better control with it. Granted, you have to chop up the songs manually, and download LAME to encode to mp3, but it still seems like a better solution. - ksong12, on 01/28/2009, -4/+6Tip: It is easiest to use Portable Firefox, and change the disk cache to something much higher so you can get many songs at once.
- altcountryman, on 01/28/2009, -0/+2You'll be the next to get sued by the RIAA. Hell, I'm just thinking about a song right now and their lawyers are after me.
- AlanFang, on 01/28/2009, -2/+4It's not like downloading the music like this directly hurts pandora. They still use the same amount of bandwidth and lose the same amount of money streaming it to you. If you want to support pandora get their premium version.
- Smuikas, on 01/28/2009, -0/+21) I'm not leeching off society, I'm enjoying my severance from my previous job
2) I'm actively searching, and have several potential jobs.
Hi there foot! meet mouth! - courtjester555, on 01/28/2009, -0/+2If you're using Linux, the songs are often stored in /tmp . They're often called "Flash[random letters and numbers]" and are .flv files, even though they have no extension. Rename them as .flv files and then convert them however you like.
-
Show 51 - 100 of 105 discussions
Browsing Digg on your phone just got easier with our enhancements to the 
© Digg Inc. 2009
— Content created and posted by Digg users is