Program to rip MP3's from website music

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I desire a program that will record whatever sound is coming out of my speakers.

Windows has this feature but seems locked to only being 1 min long.. obv pretty useless with most songs being around 3 mins.


There MUST be a program out there that can do this for me.


Cheers
 
well if it's imbedded in the page as a music file, if you can find it in the page source, get it's http//: address and put that in the address bar, that'll prompt a download of that song.
 
Cheers Aimee... getting there i think!
 
Hi Aimee,

Can you explain how to rip an audio track that's embedded in a webpage using Audacity? The track is not downloadable, only playable by hitting the "play" button ...

Thanks!

Hey Abaddon,

Did you ever figure out how to use Audacity to rip an audio file embedded in webpage? If so, could you share your wisdom?

Cheers!
 
Dranaenne said:
Hi Aimee,

Can you explain how to rip an audio track that's embedded in a webpage using Audacity? The track is not downloadable, only playable by hitting the "play" button ...

Thanks!
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Dranaenne said:
Hey Abaddon,

Did you ever figure out how to use Audacity to rip an audio file embedded in webpage? If so, could you share your wisdom?

Cheers!
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First off, welcome to CFC. We use the edit button here.

Secondly, Audacity has no such support. You will need to find the source file. In Firefox you can do this by right clicking the page, selecting "View Page Info" and in the media tab looking for the mp3 file. This will only work if the file is embedded in the page. If the file is embedded within a flash player, then you can check out the page source and find something along the lines of flash vars. A search for .mp3 or .wav in the page source will usually point you to the right place. You take that link, paste it in your address bar and hit enter. Your browser will either ask you to save as or play it using a full-window player. In that case, File> Save Page As.

@Abaddon: it would be a lot more helpful if I knew what kind of media I was looking at specifically. You can either post the link here or pm it to me.
 
Genocidicbunny said:
First off, welcome to CFC. We use the edit button here.

Secondly, Audacity has no such support. You will need to find the source file. In Firefox you can do this by right clicking the page, selecting "View Page Info" and in the media tab looking for the mp3 file. This will only work if the file is embedded in the page. If the file is embedded within a flash player, then you can check out the page source and find something along the lines of flash vars. A search for .mp3 or .wav in the page source will usually point you to the right place. You take that link, paste it in your address bar and hit enter. Your browser will either ask you to save as or play it using a full-window player. In that case, File> Save Page As.

Hi Genocidicbunny - many thanks for your prompt reply.

I opened "View Source" in Safari and there were no hits for ".mp3" or ".wav". I also tried "aac" and "aiff". However, there were over 30 hits for "wav" (i.e. without the preceding period). Some of these related to "streamURL" files - I tried these links in a new tab and they opened the tracks directly (there were multiple audio tracks embedded in the page). In Safari I could not save or download as a link (I think due to whichever plug-in is the default one on my computer for playing this sort of audio file from the web). However, in FireFox, copying the same streamURL and opening the file directly for play allowed me to select a pull-down menu and "Save Source". Bingo! Thanks to a superior streaming audio plug-in? I dunno ...

Thanks for all your help!
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No, Firefox just didnt start using Quicktime I bet. Quicktime likes to do these things.
 
Genocidicbunny said:
First off, welcome to CFC. We use the edit button here.

Secondly, Audacity has no such support. You will need to find the source file. In Firefox you can do this by right clicking the page, selecting "View Page Info" and in the media tab looking for the mp3 file. This will only work if the file is embedded in the page. If the file is embedded within a flash player, then you can check out the page source and find something along the lines of flash vars. A search for .mp3 or .wav in the page source will usually point you to the right place. You take that link, paste it in your address bar and hit enter. Your browser will either ask you to save as or play it using a full-window player. In that case, File> Save Page As.

@Abaddon: it would be a lot more helpful if I knew what kind of media I was looking at specifically. You can either post the link here or pm it to me.
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Audacity isn't as smooth, but if none of the above methods are working, Audacity "will record whatever sound is coming out of my speakers", as Abaddon said, on at least Windows XP (98/ME/2000 should work as well). Simply go into Audacity before playing whatever sound you're recording, select "Stereo Mix" from the drop-down list of input options in the top-right (Digital Mic is the microphone if you have one, I don't know what Microphone is, and Line In is the input jack by your headphone jack), start recording, and start the sound.

The downside is the quality won't be as good as the method Genocidic outlined (because the sound would be re-encoded in a lossy format), it takes as long to do as it does to play the sound, and you have to set up the export-to-mp3 manually (although the help file does explain it).

I'm guessing since you're using Safari that you're using OS X. I have no idea if Stereo Mix works on OS X or not - if it doesn't, it won't be in the drop-down. Stereo Mix does not work on Windows Vista or 7 (an example of Hollywood's obsession with copy controls), so if you are running one of those, you won't be able to use it, either. IIRC the workaround of putting a double-ended audio cable out from the headphone jack and in to the line in, and then selecting Line In, gets around that problem on Vista, and should on OS X or 7 as well. That may marginally reduce the quality since you're going through an analog component (the cable), but I highly doubt it would be noticeable.
 
I ought to mention theres no stereo mix or anmything on my Vista machine even if I set the options and stuff. The workaround, I found was to get a double-male stereo cable and plug it in. In high school the multimedia teacher let me test it during a break and it worked.
 
Thanks Quintillus. Using OS X and Audacity 1.3.12 beta, I can see no "Stereo Mix" function. So I guess the analog cable would be the only/main workaround using Audacity on a Mac ...
 
Dranaenne said:
Thanks Quintillus. Using OS X and Audacity 1.3.12 beta, I can see no "Stereo Mix" function. So I guess the analog cable would be the only/main workaround using Audacity on a Mac ...
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IIRC, sometimes it called Wave Out or What U Hear or other names.
 
video2mp3.net can convert a website's music to a mp3 file, unfortunately sometimes the file is a little bit whacky and lasts like 20-30 minutes. Even though it doesn't actually last that long. The music stops after the actual time, and it either skips to next track or plays 20 minutes of silence. It's strange. But when it works (which is most of the time) it is very nice.
 
Quintillus said:
Stereo Mix does not work on Windows Vista or 7 (an example of Hollywood's obsession with copy controls)
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Yes it does, I used it for almost 2 years until I upgraded to 7. I used it 2 days ago on my windows 7 computer. They do however make you jump a few leapholes however to find it and get it working the first time :gripe:. What you do is you right click on the sound icon at the bottom right hand side of your screen, click on recording devices, right click on the white area containing the list of microphones and check "show disabled devices". You then right click on stereo mix and press "enable" and then equip stereo mix as your default mic. "And there you have it"
 
Narnia said:
Yes it does, I used it for almost 2 years until I upgraded to 7. I used it 2 days ago on my windows 7 computer. They do however make you jump a few leapholes however to find it and get it working the first time :gripe:. What you do is you right click on the sound icon at the bottom right hand side of your screen, click on recording devices, right click on the white area containing the list of microphones and check "show disabled devices". You then right click on stereo mix and press "enable" and then equip stereo mix as your default mic. "And there you have it"
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I tried that on my Vista machine. Dont work. Its just not there.

I suppose it depends on your sound chip. Mine doesnt support it i guess.
 
Ugh! Ths is one of the times that I really hate not having stereo mix. (I dont feel like looping the cable at the moment). But I cant get a certain song to come up in either Page Info or Orbit. Its hidden behind a flash thing. (I tried StreamTransport which can grab about 96.53% of things but it also didnt work). Can somebody help.(I'll PM the link if needed)

EDIT: 15 minutes later -- I got the idea to use my moms laptop. Its working!
 
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