Random Monday : Grabbing Music from MySpace
Despite the fact that attempting to load more than five MySpace pages simulatenously is often enough to make my trusty Opera browser gag and sputter, I still find myself browsing to the MySpace pages of electronic music artists simply because it’s still usually the first place to listen to the latest unsigned releases (e.g drum & bass dubplates) as well as bootleg remixes (especially breaks and techno)
In order to download them from MySpace for offline listening, I use the freeware Orbit Downloader which comes with a nifty Grab++ feature which allows you to download embedded media like Flash (more on playing Flash games offline), MP3s and videos from most web pages. Orbit Downloader has a comprehensive list of tutorials for downloading embedded media from other sites such as YouTube, Google Video and MetaCafe.
Simply launch Grab++ – remember to set it to monitor your browser – Opera is not monitored by default 
under Action > Preferences… > Monitoring (below), wait for the MySpace page and player to load completely before playing the track you wish to download in the MySpace player.
The Grab++ window will refresh automatically when any embedded streaming media files are are loaded. Check the file (all MP3s on MySpace are prefixed with std_), click Download and the file will be transferred to Orbit Downloader for download. For MySpace pages, you do require a sufficiently fast connection as the MP3s are loaded from the cache servers which have quite a short timeout – however cable and DSL users should only occassionally encounter timeouts.
While there can be no doubt that downloading a track commercially available as a physical record or CD or as a MP3 download is S.T.E.A.L.I.N.G, there exists a grey area when lovely tracks like Am De Sa’s unsigned drum & bass track Looking Glass (first heard on Elle Rollo’s Mature Sound Mixtape 3) is neither available as a download or on vinyl. In this case, the only way to get a personal copy (until the MP3 or vinyl version comes out) is to grab it from MySpace.
BTW, tracks in the MySpace player are encoded at 96 kbs, 22050 Hz, stereo MP3s. While they’re definitely not something you want (or should) be playing on a powerful soundsystem, they’re still useful for collectors like me since electronic music tracks come and go very quickly especially for unreleased tracks.
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Any idea as how I can get this to work on a Mac?
I have absolutely no idea how to do this manually without Orbit and Orbit isn’t available on a Mac.
Yeah, that’s the thing about switching. There’s still some programs I use on the PC that is not available on the Mac.
I think I can never switch to the Mac with all the PC-only games that I’n playing