The times of slow internet connections are over and most webmasters don’t have to worry about long loading times anymore. This means that background music becomes more popular. Sometimes you hear a song you like on a site, but you don’t know how the song is called and/or can’t find it anywhere on the world wide web. If the song is embedded with a Flash file, or if the whole site is Flash, most people think that it’s impossible to download the song because they can’t find a link to it. In this post I’ll prove the opposite. I’ll use the website 3121.com/jam/. It’s Prince’s official website, which features a new Jam of the Week every week. Since I’m a big fan I want the songs on my iPhone, but there isn’t a download link on the site! The following steps allow me to download the song, without a download link.
1. Download the web browser Safari (OSX or Windows) and start it.
2. Browse to the site with the embedded song (in this example: 3121.com/jam/)
3. In Safari’s toolbar, click Window > Activity
4. Scroll to the mp3 file, if there’s more than one, use common sense in combination with the file size and file name to find the right one. Double click it.
5. If the download starts automatically, the song will appear in your downloads folder, if it opens Quicktime, hit the little arrow and select safe as source. If it does something else, copy paste the URL in Firefox and go to file > save as.
That’s it! This little trick works for all embedded things (youtube video’s, background music, vodcasts, podcasts etc.)
If you know a better way, please leave a comment, though I think that this beats all youtube download pages/plugins (since it won’t go down after 2 days nor need to be constantly updated)
YouTubeRobot.com today announces YouTube Robot 2.0, a tool that enables you to download video from YouTube.com onto your PC, convert it to various formats to watch it when you are on the road on mobile devices like mobile phone, iPod, iPhone, Pocket PC, PSP, or Zune.
YouTube Robot allows you to search for videos using keywords or browse video by category, author, channel, language, tags, etc. When you find something noteworthy, you can preview the video right in YouTube Robot and then download it onto the hard disk drive. The speed, at which you will be downloading, is very high: up to 5 times faster than other software when you download a single file and up to 4 times faster when you download multiple files at a time.
Manual download is not the only option with YouTube Robot. You may as well schedule the download and conversion tasks to be executed automatically, even when you are not around. Downloading is followed by conversion to the format of your choice and uploading videos to a mobile device (if needed). For example, you can plug in iPod, select the video, go to bed, and when you wake up next morning, your iPod will be ready to play new YouTube videos.
Product page: ww w.youtuberobot.com
Direct download link: w ww.youtuberobot.com/download/utuberobot.exe
web-site: ww w.youtuberobot.com
E-mail: support@youtuberobot.com
If you are using Firefox, you can right click on the page and click “page info”, then “multimedia” tab, scroll down to find your media, then “save as” to your folder of choice.