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Topic History of: DOWNLOADS - a new thread prompted by Martin's post below.
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Kev |
KZ, you can record Flash audio, can't save it but you can record it. There's software around which will allow anything being played through the soundcard to also be spooled to an output file.
Nothing is safe!
Kev.
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KZ |
Hey mr JK, here is a quick breakdown for you from someone who has done a bit of research on this and also having worked in IT since 1997 im familiar with all the current formats online now.
Lets start with Myspace. It appears that myspace is using a web streaming server to serve all the streams from their website. This saves a copy in the internet explorer cache folder and is very easy to retrieve the mp3 file. Just go into tools > internet options > settings > view files and you can find the mp3 file.
A 'proper' streaming server does not actually save a temporary file onto the computer it serves the music directly and you will not find a copy on the hard drive or in internet explorer cache folder. But it costs extra dosh to set this up.
If you cant afford to set up a 'proper' streaming server then you can set up your own streaming server using www.peercast.org which is a free server which runs a bit like p2p radio. You can also set up on www.mercora.com which will replace myspace as the place to discover and listen to music online as it is a bona fide internet radio station that pays royalties if you are registered with Ascap/bmi/prs.
If this is too much of a hassle JK and you want to allow people to stream your music without actually being able to save it (unless they record using their soundcard, then i would suggest you encode the music in flash as a soundtrack and save it in flash format (swf). That way no one can use it outside of their web browser. |
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martin k |
Yes it was in M3U Kev. All is not lost though, as the guy who has taken the track is doing another re-mix, which is cool. |
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Kev |
Martin, if it's being streamed using the conventional "link" files (I.e. .M3U or .WMX) then the address for the media is contained in the file (it's just a text file too, even if the extension is odd). Therefore you just need to save that and you can get the media.
The way ROTD does it looks pretty good to me using Flash, I don't know a way of saving that. |
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martin K |
Actually, a friend has just proudly e-mailed to proudly say he has succesfully downloaded a streaming piece from my site, so I am completely stumped now! |
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