How to Download Songs from Myspace

Martin Brinkmann
Feb 6, 2007
Updated • May 30, 2013
Music, Music and Video
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It seems that someone found out a way to create download links to the mp3 files that one can listen to on the profile pages of the bands that have a MySpace website. The script to decode the MySpace url and extract the mp3 links is working well and uses Ajax for ease of use.

All you need to to is supply a website or profile page of a band and the script automatically decodes the information and displays links to all songs that can be listened to on the website. MySpace randomly generates the links every minute which means that sometimes the decode button has to be activated more than once.

You are free to provide the short url of the bands page (ie. www.myspace.com/colbiecaillat) or the long one with parameters which leads to the same website (http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=8777613). Both links can be decoded and the songs can be downloaded by right-clicking them and selecting to save the link as..

Update:

Due to popular demand I uploaded the script to my web space. Use it to download songs from MySpace.

Update 2:

The script has stopped working and we have removed it from our server again. Please note that it does not seem possible to download music from MySpace right now using a script, browser extension or other program.

What you can do however, what works all the time, is to use an audio recorder to record all audio on your system. While not really practicable, it provides you in theory with options to record any song or audio that is playing on your computer regardless of source or protection it uses.

A program that you can use for this task is Audacity, a free open source audio recorder and editor for Windows, Mac and Linux systems.

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Comments

  1. Justin said on November 30, 2011 at 10:18 am
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    The warning message about AAC streams when you load streams is because you don’t have the free Orban AAC/aacPlus Player Plugin installed.

    http://codecpack.co/download/Orban-aacPlus-Player-Plugin.html

    1. Martin Brinkmann said on November 30, 2011 at 10:56 am
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      Justin, thanks for the information.

  2. santosh said on December 1, 2011 at 12:43 am
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    does this support AAC ? or only mp3 streaming

    1. Martin Brinkmann said on December 1, 2011 at 1:43 am
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      I’d say it supports all pls streams but I have not tried that so cannot verify it 100%.

  3. Barnabas said on August 3, 2012 at 5:15 pm
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    Thank you Martin for a most informative and viable solution (it allowed me to play streams from a Netherland internet radio station in my WMP)! Continued success to you!

    Barnabas (USA)

  4. AppleRome said on October 7, 2012 at 7:31 am
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    Your steps’ recommendation is still valid until 7th October 2012.. Thank you very much !!

  5. Laura said on December 1, 2012 at 4:41 pm
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    Thank you!

  6. sak2005 said on December 9, 2014 at 8:03 pm
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    You must convert file.pls to file.m3u
    because file.pls open with winamp and file.m3u open with wmp.

  7. Lithium said on February 10, 2017 at 11:10 am
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    Hi
    2017 still kicking on Windows 7
    Thx a ton

  8. Dennis said on April 18, 2017 at 4:05 am
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    Hey, even i can do it, i stumbled through it and it works great! The only instruction advice i will add as i had to figure this out, when the wmp box opens that says save or open the bar on right says wmp click that drop down and select “open pls in wmp” once you do that it will work . Took me quite some time to discover that as i am no computer expert by any means. Having said that, previously i had downloaded codec packages and something about aac. None did any good. This rocks, i listen to a lot of internet radio and a number of them have dropped flash player and getting wmp to work had been a nightmare. So many thanks for this great solution to another problem that Micro-Hell will not even address. Peace- Out

  9. stephen marshall said on March 19, 2019 at 2:07 am
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    openplsinwmp came in a zip file. I unpacked it, and didn’t find anything that looks like an executable, and even the files in the “doc” folder were in a format windows didn’t recognize. I’m not stupid. you said it would open effortlessly. It didn’t. This a rabbit hole I don’t want to go down.

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