I was describing some ways lately to download songs from radioblogclub. All required to either edit a certain part of the code that was provided by the website or to copy and paste the code into a online script that would convert it and extract the information about the link to the mp3 file. Not very handy if you want to download many songs from their website.

Project Radioblown is a French windows application that automates the process further. You do need to load a song using the Internet Explorer and the software automatically picks it up and downloads it to the same directory if you choose to do so. This is a great time saver because you do not need to copy and paste code manually anymore.

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The following method to extract multimedia files from the cache works great on many sites and can be used as a fast and efficient way of downloading files that are of interest. I suggest Firefox for this operation but other browsers should work as well.

Visit the website in question and start the playback of the multimedia file that you want to download. Let it play until it finishes and type “about:cache?device=disk” into the address bar of Firefox. What we are looking for is a relatively large file that probably has the standard extension. If you are looking for a music file try searching that page for “mp3″ or other extensions that could work. (Look for sizes of 1 megabyte and up for music files for instance)

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I was describing a method to download music from the website Radioblogclub.com just a few days ago. The method required some manual work, you had to copy part of the code that was used to embed the song in your own website. The copied part was of course the mp3 file which could be easily downloaded afterwards.

A better more efficient method is to use the script that is available at radioblogdownloader.com . Just copy and paste all the code into the form on the site and it will automatically parse it and let you download the music. The build in search did not work at the time I was trying the service. Simply visit radioblogclub.com, search for an artist or song, click on the blue Play icon in the results list and copy the code on the right side. Paste that code into the form at the downloader site and download the song.

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Last years RPM Challenge saw a participation of 165 bands with more than 1600 new tunes which can all be listened to using the build in flash player at the official website. The February 2007 challenge will definitely see more participants resulting in many more songs that can be listened to online. The main page already has a short selection of new songs that have been submitted to the challenge.

The challenge itself will run for the remaining days of February with an update of the flash player soon after the challenge officially ends.

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Some days ago a letter from the RIAA was leaked that tried to bully ISPs into cooperation. It did not take long for the Internet Service Providers and the Electronic Frontier Foundation to reply to this new approach which tried to avoid the legal system by receiving information about users directly from the IPSs. Internet Service Providers do not have to hand out names of their customers to organizations like the RIAA without a court order.

It seems that the IPSs are cautious about the letter send out to them. The responses vary but all agree that there is no legal obligation to cooperate with the RIAA on the matter. It should nevertheless be noted that for example Earthlink and Verizon will talk with the RIAA on the matter.

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