gHacks technology news » mp3-music http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:00:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Mp3 Music Playlists In Firefox http://www.ghacks.net/2009/02/17/mp3-music-playlists-in-firefox/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/02/17/mp3-music-playlists-in-firefox/#comments Tue, 17 Feb 2009 09:04:02 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=10608 If you regularly come upon websites that list direct links to mp3 music files you might find the Firefox extension Play Them All handy. Play Them All automatically scans the entire website for links to mp3 music. It creates a m3u file – that’s a playlist file – containing all the mp3 music files found on the website which can be downloaded and played on the favorite mp3 music player.

Virtually no music player can parse websites for mp3 music links. That’s where Play Them All comes into play. Instead of having to download all mp3 music files manually to play them locally one simply has to press the Play Them All button. The extension adds an entry to the Firefox tools menu. It does come with a button as well which can be added to a Firefox toolbar to simplify usage.

Once pressed or selected it will scan the entire page for links to mp3 music. The Firefox extension will then open a Open / Save download window. The extension is currently in experimental stage meaning that you need to log into the Mozilla website to download it from there.

The developer has only tested the extension on Linux using XMMS. Tests with AIMP2 and iTunes on Windows were not successful.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/02/17/mp3-music-playlists-in-firefox/feed/ 4 Download Music from eSnips http://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/18/download-music-from-esnips/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/18/download-music-from-esnips/#comments Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:03:45 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=6271 The file hosting website eSnips provides access to various communities that have been created for users with the same interests. You find communities about art and fun but also music. The music community is divided into communities for different music genres like rock, metal or rap.

Each music community offers a large amount of music tracks that can be played online in an embedded player. Some music tracks can be downloaded directly because the user who uploaded the track allowed that option. Other songs on the other hand can only be played in the embedded player.

There are however a few options to download those songs from eSnips as well. The first software that I try out for any kind of streaming service is Orbit Downloader and it’s grab++ link grabber.

Orbit Downloader seems to have problems downloading songs from eSnips currently. I was not able to download the full songs, only 50K of the song which is obviously not enough.

The second option is a web downloader that converts the eSnips page where the music is embedded to the download url of the song. That works surprisingly well. One of the few scripts that can do that is the called eSnips Download.

Just enter the url of the website where the song is currently playing and hit the Get Download Link button to receive the url to the song. Another click downloads that song directly to the computer.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/18/download-music-from-esnips/feed/ 8 Listen to and download free mp3 music http://www.ghacks.net/2007/04/08/listen-to-and-download-free-mp3-music/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/04/08/listen-to-and-download-free-mp3-music/#comments Sun, 08 Apr 2007 20:56:46 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/04/08/listen-to-and-download-free-mp3-music/ A reader of my blog recommended a great music download site with the name ElectroBel, a free underground electronic music community site. The mp3 music that can be found on Electrobel can be listened to online or downloaded as mp3 files to your own computer. Every single song has been created by a member of the music community and released under Creative Commons.

Electrobel features a nice looking interface that makes it very easy to listen to mp3 music on the site itself using a great player. It is possible to create playlists, look at playlists from other users, export the music to m3u files. You can download music from Electrobel as well, everything can be done without registration. It offers however more than just music downloads; Members share information about upcoming concerts, new releases, music production, music hardware and software.

The community is pretty active and you can find lots of royalty free music in the different music categories on Electrobel. Everything is devoted to electronic music of course which means that the dominating genres are Techno, Trance, Electro and variations of that music. They even got a chiptunes category which I remember from the time that I produced some music with my Commodore Amiga for some demos and intros.

So, let me sum it up: Free Music Downloads + Free Music Streams + Royalty Free Music + Great Community =  excellent website that gets a recommendation.

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