gHacks technology news » soundpedia http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:31:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Download Music from Soundpedia http://www.ghacks.net/2007/06/26/download-music-from-soundpedia/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/06/26/download-music-from-soundpedia/#comments Tue, 26 Jun 2007 08:51:52 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/06/26/download-music-from-soundpedia/ Yesterday I introduced the relatively new music community Soundpedia that has an excellent selection of artists, albums and songs available that can be listened to using the build in flash player. There is no obvious way to download the music right from the website but there is an option that I would like to explain.

Before I start I would like to point out that the quality of the mp3 audio files from Soundpedia is not that great. The mp3’s seem the be encoded with 32 Kbit only which is probably not enough for most users. This is therefor just a theoretical approach to downloading music from Soundpedia which can be used on other sites as well.

You do need the software Grab++, Orbit Downloader and a browser.

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All you need to do is start Grab++ and let it run in the background. Click on a listen symbol or play icon on the Soundpedia website and wait until the flash player starts and loads the audio file.

Grab++ will display the mp3 with the extension .soulayer1. There will be other files listed but we only need to take care of the soulayer1 files.

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Just right-click the soulayer1 file and select download from the menu. Orbit Downloader should show up the file download menu automatically.

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I would suggest to rename the soulayer1 extension to mp3 and assign the correct name and artist to the song as well. This way it is much easier to know what you have been downloading.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2007/06/26/download-music-from-soundpedia/feed/ 8 Soundpedia Music Community http://www.ghacks.net/2007/06/25/soundpedia-music-community/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/06/25/soundpedia-music-community/#comments Mon, 25 Jun 2007 19:50:03 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/06/25/soundpedia-music-community/ I read about Soundpedia at Techcrunch for the first time and was pleasantly surprised about the functionality and look of Soundpedia. What I really like about it is that you can listen to complete albums using their music flash player. You can either search for artists or albums using the site search or browse artists and albums by selecting a genre from the sidebar.

The site search and browsing the genres is currently the only way to be able to find and listen to all artists that are hosted on Soundpedia. The method to browse the albums and artists reveals that only a few of them are listed currently.

soundpediaA really nice feature is that you can create your own playlists by searching for songs and adding them to it. You do need to be registered to be able to do that though.

It is also possible to listen to playlists from other users which is a great way to find new songs. Another way would be to click on the newest albums of a genre, related albums when you view a album and related playlists.

This is an excellent way to create playlists from songs that you like even if you do not own the songs. I can’t say that it is really better than Last.fm but it is a great alternative to it.

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