Comments on: HOWTO: Swipe music from MySpace players at full quality

By: Jake

Jake — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 10:08:25 +0000

"Yo duder", that site doesn't work. The resulting MP3's are unplayable. Thanks for your bag of fail.

By: Craspy Craspy

Craspy Craspy — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 05:00:49 +0000

Yo duder, this looks very cool but there is an easier way to download full quality mp3s from myspace! Check out http://www.myspaf.com

By: Jake Billo

Jake Billo — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 22:24:53 +0000

Yeah, RealMedia would be great… you’d get to hear the first ten seconds of Fergie before BUFFERING…

By: SzK

SzK — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 20:43:34 +0000

mp3s are terrible at low bitrates, but I think the main problem is the 22KHz sampling rate. I think MySpace deliberately renders the sound quality almost unlistenable. A 64 kbps or even 56 kbps realmeadia stream would sound much better (with 44KHz of course).

By: Jake Billo

Jake Billo — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 20:13:42 +0000

Aww, weak. MySpace can provide the bandwidth to serve up a ridiculous amount of malformed HTML and CSS “profile layouts” that practically need a dual core chip to run properly, but can’t even bump things to 128K so that the music doesn’t sound like it’s being reproduced by a speaker encased in mud?

Guess that’s why I never got along with the MySpace crowd.

By: SzK

SzK — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 20:09:49 +0000

Unfortunately, that workaround for the original higher bitrate versions stopped working a few months ago.

By: Jake Billo

Jake Billo — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 19:59:25 +0000

Firebug is an excellent (and quite reputable) tool. I didn’t know it could pull the MP3 address right out of the SWF file. The other site looks interesting as well since it doesn’t ask you to download any Windows app. I’ll have to pass these along to the guy who originally requested this technique.

Interesting to see there might be a workaround for full quality versus 96k/22 streaming, from the first site you listed. I find 96K MP3 files to be unlistenable and a higher quality copy would be welcome in that case.

If MySpace ever begins requiring a valid (Flash) user-agent string for downloads, then there’ll have to be another workaround.

By: SzK

SzK — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 19:58:30 +0000

Ok, sorry I screwed up the html tags. Let’s try again.
Well, there is a method that utilises a Firefox extension called Firebug, the method is discussed here: http://www.devlounge.net/sidenotes/using-firebug-to-download-songs-from-myspace.
And yesterday I found this site http://www.file2hd.com/ , where you only have to paste the Myspace URL in the field.
None of the sites nor the extension seems malicious to me.

By: SzK

SzK — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 19:49:06 +0000

Well, there is a method that utilises a Firefox extension called Firebug, the method is discussed here: . And yesterday I found this site , where you only have to paste the Myspace URL in the field. None of the sites nor the extension seems malicious to me.

By: Jake Billo

Jake Billo — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 21:09:33 +0000

As far as I know, the 96kbps/22HKz format is the only type of download you can get with this method.

I assume there are utilities or other processes out there to let you grab the MP3 file, but when you search for anything with “MySpace” in the title, you’re guaranteed to have to slog through a bunch of shareware utilities offered by less-than-reputable sites. Can you suggest any easier methods to obtain the MP3 file, since you mentioned it?