For about 6 months, this method worked. But RadioBlogClub figured out how to block us from downloading the music. I have yet to find another workaround!
A few months a go, I published a quick how-to guide about downloading music for free from the RadioBlogClub website. After trying many sites and various methods of downloading songs, I decided on RadioBlogClub because of its ease of use and more importantly its vast selection of songs which far surpassed the offering of any other sites that I came across. If you are after more popular songs, you’ll probably have an easier time by going to BlogDigger.com who have a powerful media search tool which allows you to uncover songs embedded in blog posts from around the world! But as I said, it’s only really useful for very popular songs.
Times were good for music downloaders for a couple of months until RadioBlogClub caught on to this exploitation and, as already mentioned, started encrypting the URLs to their songs. For months I haven’t been near the internet, so haven’t had an opportunity to tackle this but now that I’ve managed to find a spare 10 minutes, why don’t you join me as I once again explain How To Download Almost Any Song off The Internet For Free!
1. Visit The Site
CLICK HERE (opens in a new window)
2. Search
In the search box type the name of the band (or song) that you are looking for. In this case I’m searching for “Snow Patrol”, a band that I recommend each and every one of you check out :).
3. Select the Song You Want
You are now presented with a list of songs available for that band. When you see the song that you like, click its blue play button to the left of it.
Look towards the right column and you’ll notice that something like the above has appeared.
4. Find The Song Code
In the grey box, there’s lots of “HTML” code. For those who are familiar with this guides previous outing, you’ll know that this is the part where you’re meant to select a particular bit of code. So select, like I have done in the picture, the bottom lines of the code beginning with “FlashVars”. Make sure that you select EVERYTHING after this and then continue.
5. Paste The Code Into AdamsRants Code Stripper
Check out My Code Stripper which will decrypt the music code.
Paste the code into the First box. Now you must butcher the code! Erase everything BEFORE the “http” and AFTER the “.rbs” and you’ll end up with something like this:
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Now press the “DECRYPT” button which were convert the encrypted code into easily understood code like this:
6. Download
Now you can copy and paste the code into your address bar. Once you have done this, press enter and you will be asked to save it! You are almost there….
6. BUT WAIT!
After downloading the song, you may notice that Windows doesn’t know what to open it in, this is because the file ends in “.rbs” which isn’t recognised by Windows. However, this is only a basic ploy to stop people downloading the song because it’s actually a “.mp3″ which has been renamed to fool people! What you need to do is raname the file!
A “.rbs” file.
Right click the file and select “Rename”.
Change the file extension to “.mp3″.
VOILA!
Double click the file and it will now open in your preferred Media Player. It might seem a bit daunting to have to do this for every song, but you’ll soon get the hang of it!
A lot of people previously commented that this is a very longwinded system, but I’d have to disagree. After the first few songs, you’ll be able to download songs in no time at all once you get used to it which makes it perfect for situations where you’re asked to listen to a certain song by a friend but don’t fancy having to wade through the unreliable LimeWire or download the full album from BitTorrent.
Some people also commented on the sound quality which usually weighs in at 92kbps. The good news is that this means it takes seconds to download. The bad news is that audiophiles will be disappointed. This isn’t Dolby Surround Enhanced Audio that we’re downloading here. It’s slightly less than CD quality which, in my opinion, is perfect for phones or small MP3 Players with little space!
In the past, people tried to make some further addons to this hack such as an automated downloader. Once again people are welcome to make an any further additions to this exploit, but remember, if you’re leaving a comment, please leave some form of contact!
great
This is awesome, thanks alot
i like it, but the songs are in 64kbps, which is really poor quality. i guess you get what you pay for.
Preved, This is great.At last found some useful stuff on internet worth trying.Thanks a ton dude.
Dasvidania
Purush
I’m not that great with javascript, but I’ll see about making a bookmarklet to automate everything up to the download. Also, when you download it, you should just be able to name it as .mp3 then without having to later rename it.
Hey — nice! Thanks for posting this. The music on my nano was getting a little stale. This is great!
One question….do you know how to grab files with the .swf extension? I know these are shockwave files, but is there any way to convert them to mp3? I found a couple songs that only had .swf extensions, and no .rbs alternative.
Thanks!
-amanda
Had a hard time figuring it out at first since I was just selecting the song on the flash playlist instead of clicking the blue arrow, but I fooled around with it and eventually got it.
You just saved me a bunch of work. I used do decompile the flash files these pieces were found on when I couldn’t find the music on google.
I made a slight formatting error while writing the article meaning the images explaining that step weren’t appearing. I’ve fixed it now though! Glad most of you appreciate it
Just got back from work and finished it. Here it is!
http://daenyth.livejournal.com/60493.html
this is gr8. cheers mate
Works great, thanks. Little easier if you copy the entire code then edit it in Notepad then paste it in. It’s 64 bit but the sound is much better in WMP than the web player they use.
Good trick but the choice of songs is not that big. i’ll stick to soulseek which is a very good p-to-p software without any spy or malware.
Also via Sideload you can easily find a lot of singles. And they just provide the link for downloading, you don’t need to digg for it. They don’t have as many tracks, though…
I wish i unsderstood stuff like this!!
I think you actually hired people to write those comments to make me feel stupid….. we all know i’m more intelligent than yourself Adam.
You’re just making all this “stuff” up.
Fist day in work today….actually was alright. But it’s only been my first day. Might call into you after work Monday? You be about?
FIRST!!! Not fist, you’re reading it wrong!
hi. great idea…wish it would work.
followed steps exactly until step 5 - Paste The Code Into The Address Bar And Problem Loading Page.
have the people at Radio.Blog fixed this or what? or is it just my taste in music that is the problem? (i was trying to get a Ferry Corsten song)
maggot, I just tried it on some more songs and they all worked. The method may vary slightly, depending on what browser you use (I used Firefox)
lol adam, good work. very good
and i was getting 300kb/s just there :O
yeah, i only use firefox…i’ve killed IE with my zone alarm hammer of doom haha!
i tried the example you used (tool - vicarious) and that worked. the one i want won’t work though:
FlashVars=”id=0&status=maximize&filepath=http:///radio.blog.trance/sounds/Oceanlab - Clear Blue Water (Ferry Corsten Remix).mp3.rbs
this one worked though:
FlashVars=”id=0&status=maximize&filepath=http://www.korbin.be/radio/radio.blog/sounds/Ferry Corsten - Rock Your Body Rock.rbs
maybe because the file extension is .mp3.rbs ? i don’t know, i’m not that tech …
oh, hang on a moment - the link itself is screwed - filepath=http:///radio.etc - note the three backslashes? i think there should be a website in there somewhere. doesn’t it help when you actually look at stuff? i mean, properly look, with my own eyes and everything… i’m such a fecking halfwit sometimes…
thanks ad. much grat. and now for some more free music…
omg it worked lol cool!
I just wish the quality was better though.
Arrakis is mine. You just became my hero.
why don’t you just use the edonkey network?
Partially because I’m lazy. I usually use BitTorrent anyway but for individual songs this is quick and easy.
Maybe it’s just me, but when I try to rename a file it just chages the name and not the extension or filetype. i.e. renaming kingsingers.avi to kingsingers.mp3 gives me a file CALLED “kingsingers.mp3″ but is still a .avi filetype. the only workaround I can find is to open a DOS shell window and use the dos REN command, then close the window and refresh my windows explorer window. After this it will show up as the file type that I renamed to in the Dos Shell.
Anybody know a better way or is there a setting buried somewhere in windows that lets you change filetypes when you rename?
I’ve bookmarked this page to check back later for answers, I can also be emailed at: redheadtarn@hotmail.com
Thanx in advance
Brilliance! Viva La Hackers!
@Tarn: Because .avi is a recognised file type (typically associated with Windows Media Player), Windows does not, by default, show it’s file extension (or the extension of any other recognised file types). Thankfully you can change this. Open a folder and click “Tools” -> Folder Options -> View -> Scroll down and UNCHECK the option relating to displaying the extension of known file types.
Much easier than going into DOS
Wow this is cool! I think the people of radioblogclub should start working on a fix…
Are you guys serious. 64 kbps? 64 KBPS?!?!?!?! are you guys insane. you might as well be listening to just the artist singing. Oh wow im cool ripping 64kbps songs. dude. im at a loss for words. oh heres some. YOU GUYS ARE FUCKING DUMBASSES!!!!
josh - be cool man…
some of us observers didnt bother to comment on that…
but you, you had to open your mouth…
sventhef wrote:
Wow this is cool! I think the people of radioblogclub should start working on a fix…
er, i think they just did…
now they’re asking me to login or some shit like that…i don’t want to login or register, i just want some free music, the cheap bastards!
for that little problem of being “registred”, here is a login/pword :
stop123
stop123
please don’t change the pword… all the things to download the music are workin’ well
Or just download Soulseek and go download some songs at decent kbps, without risking downloading a virus or ghey pron like you would with limewire et al.
FUCKING AWESOME
Great
OR, if you use Mozilla firefox as you should, download the extension UNPLUG, rightclick anywhere on the page (after step 2), select Unplug from the menu, click Save under any song.
Did the unplug thing but player on my system won’t play file once it’s on the HD
appreicate it
Seems to be gone with the introduction of v3.0 which uses a flash player similar to Myspace?
Although, I think this site may be leeching off others. The Urls of the songs I listened to were from different .fr sites. Anyone else notice this?
Dude, you are fucking awesome, Thank you, I got all my Toy Box songs that are hard as hell to find, Thank you again. I have a feeling you’ve made a difference in this world. I’ve shared your idea with all my friends, and if it’s okay with you, I’d like to post your method on my myspace so other people can do this, totally up to you though. If you don’t want me to, I won’t. Send me an email with your answer. Peace
Dug, forgot to put my email. tora.oni@gmail.com
Amanda, there is a Flash Saving plugin at http://www.browsertools.net/, with which you can capture most of the flash movies and sounds.
Brilliant! I’ve seen radio.blog.club, but never thought to use the file address in the code. One problem, though, is that the sound quality is generally poor.
Agh, Great find. Got me several songs now. Thanks mate.
Seems like a lot more work than the little “download” button next to every song on webjay.
sweet mini-tute dude!!
very useful for those ‘odd’ tracks that you can’t grab from albums on mininova or piratebay
many thanks for sharing - mucho karma points ;0)
Great, it will be usefull at school where you can’t install almost anything! >_
Exccccccccellent Smithers. GREAT resource. Thanks for the sleuthing!
yayyy! thankyou!
MEGA AWESOME….THANK U…THANK U..
lol wicked! Muwah!
ADAM ENTWISTLEE IZ DAT U
Whew. Has the MPAA started knocking on your door yet?
It kind of worked, the song works on all my music players except Itunes…
I think they’ve figured you out … I can’t get it to work any more. But thanks, it was fun while it lasted, and I got some great songs.
the code was re-named.
They changed the dashes to number and percantages. @_@
i was finally able to scramble the coding.
www.tinymikitty.com/radio.blog/sounds/Perfume - Electro World.rbs
SHOULD BE >
http://www.tinymikitty.com/radio.blog/sounds/Perfume - Electro World.rbs
/ = /
= SPACE
OK i was trying to explain in the last example but i’ve noticed that pasting the code here makes the code usable for your browser lol
http://neoarre.ivyro.net/radioblog/sounds/Perfume - Inryoku.rbs
HAHA IT WORKS
pasting the re-name code here and copy and pasting it into your browser
http://simax13.free.fr/radio.blog/sounds/Daniel Bedingfield - If You’re Not The One (Passengerz Club Mix).rbs
http://misterash.free.fr/radio.blog/sounds/Perfume - Electro World.rbs
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you could delete all the comments i figured out that it works on some songs and it doesnt on others.
http://misterash.free.fr/radio.blog/sounds/Perfume - Electro World.rbs
the code has been changed to alot of percentages and numbers so it dosent work any more
thanks anyway
just change the V7F to a / So you get something resembling
http://misterash.free.fr/radio.blog/sounds/
and go to there web page and download everything if you want..
FlashVars=”id=0&filepath=http://flichtenbloden.free.fr/zik/violenzia/sounds/Mindless Self Indulgence - You’ll Rebel To Anything (As Long As It’s Not Challenging).rbs&colors=body:#ECECEC;border:#BBBBBB;button:#999999;player_text:#999999;playlist_text:#999999;”>
wat about stuff wat ppl av med themselfs?
=http://tuxrom.free.fr/radio.blog/sounds/alicia_keys-wild_horses_ft._adam_levine.www.mixermusic.net.rbs
=http://mukeshares.ifrance.com/radioblog/sounds/Alicia keys - wild horses ft. adam levine.rbs
Wow guys, this reminds me of the old days - when other webmasters and myself had “streaming” music in .wma format. The code read something like this:
Bon Jovi - Bed of Roses
This was great while it lasted (quite a few years), but then sonicnet caught on eventually and started varying the codes each day. It’s too complicated now. One day the song might work, the next day not.
www.freewebtown.com/talema/blogradio/sounds/Madonna_Get_Together_Jaques_Lu_Cont_Mix.rbs
whenever i try to download a song it never works
ive followed the steps exactly and after i butcher the url and press enter nothing comes up
please help!
thanks
I totally tried this today. And it totally didn’t work. I think you’re a liar. Either that or I’m stoopid. I’m gonna go with you being a liar. When i go to do the address thingy, loads of %s and 29830923-09 (numbers) come up in between the wordlings. and i get confused and scared and run away. Oh adam, how you torture me so, with your empty promises of free songs….
got a prob
******
i copied the code between the stars there ain’t no http:// but there is onlt http %
:(:(:(:(
http://etienne.gimenez.free.fr/radio.blog/sounds/Kelis - Bossy (Switch Remix).rbs
Yeh, the problem is that Radio.Blog.Club has caught on to what’s going on, and how simple it is to download the stuff.
The %2 and signs are stuck in the middle. ( ) stands for a space and I think (%2) is a forward slash (/).
I’ll work on it and get back to you.
to get the songs to work with the new format you have to change a couple of things.
1. Copy the normal code.
FlashVars=”id=0&filepath=http://www.theevildrgori.com/radioblog/sounds/Colin Hay - Overkill (accoustic).rbs&colors=body:#ECECEC;border:#BBBBBB;button:#999999;player_text:#999999;playlist_text:#999999;”>
2. Delete all before “http” and after “.rbs”
http://www.theevildrgori.com/radioblog/sounds/Colin Hay - Overkill (accoustic).rbs
3. Now we are left with the numbers and %’s.
- : = :
- / = /
- = space
Therefore we are left with,
http://www.theevildrgori.com/radioblog/sounds/Colin Hay - Overkill (accoustic).rbs
4. Copy and paste the code into the address bar (don’t worry if the percentage sings come back)
5. Save the file and change the file extension to .mp3
sorry Guys, i messed up a bit in the lsat post,
(/) is (/)
(:) is (:)
( ) is (space)
they’ve coded it….once someone deciphers…
like ben said, / means this or that,%3 means that ot this….etc etc
dear friends it seems that for now $ is stronger than our efforts,how ever good job!
I can’t seem to find on the internet what the %3 and stuff means.
FlashVars=”id=0&filepath=http://www.freeweb.hu/kakksi/radio.blog/sounds/Yes - owner of a lonely heart.rbs
How’s that meant to help? I don’t get that when I want a song.
this is really nice.. i really had a hard time downloading songs before especially in limewire because it only gives virus to my computer.. thanks for this…. had a great time…
Why wont the songs burn onto a cd?
I noticed that when I do it, if mp3 is not listed in the code then it does not work. For example, if the code is fffaee.mp3.rbs then it will work. But if it’s ffaee.rbs, then it will not.
great dude…………..thanks really
i have a mac… is there anyway to apply this to safari??
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This is one of the best things I have discovered on the internet, I commend your work. I however want to say that the code stripper doesn’t work for file that ends with mp3.rbs
FlashVars=”id=0&filepath=http://micine.iespana.es/radio.blog/sounds/U2 - Sometimes you cant make it on your own.rbs
FlashVars=”id=0&filepath=http://www.mymplive.com/radio.blog/sounds/Only_reminds_me_of_you.rbs
Here’s how I’ve been doing this for a while:
http://www.angelfire.com/electronic2/hemphacker/rbsloader.html
It takes care of “finding the code”, etc… Just copy and paste the whole text box into the text box on my webpage. Click the button, and it’ll not only give you a direct link to the file, but also a link to the parent directory. Also at the top is another smaller text box to turn any text into a link. That’s helpful for when firefox/IE keeps trying to open a link, and you just want to download it. I want to create a bookmarklet or a greasemonkey script for RadioBlog, but I just haven’t gotten around to it…
Nice Blog !!
Brillinat!
Quality, yrh, rather poor but who cares. This is free and fairly fast. I agree with the blog statement saying it doesn’t take long. Doesn’t take long at all if you want the song enough.
Brilliant work, thanks.
Great workaround for awhile at least but I believe they caught onto it again. I got several great songs from here a couple of weeks ago but now when I get the code and paste it into your code stripper I get an “htm” extension and when I try to save it, I get a blank page saying “No Key” and the word listen under my file name. I tried it with 4 different songs so I know it just wasn’t a glitch. I hope you can figure out a new workaround as I really did enjoy downloading songs from here. Keep up the fight.
This method no longer works. I haven’t completely figured out a new way, but I think you could use the fact that when you stream a song in Firefox it says “Transferring data from (part of the file’s URL) …”.
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Some newer songs seem to encrypt the host’s main url, so it’s kind of hard to find it.
Very useful, this!
Other than that, I love the codestripper for things like a curvy hyphen over an A when I can’t figure out someone’s directory.
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didnt work :[
it told me to not steal music and to buy from it’s store haha they’re on to you, kids..
i want all my favorite songs without a price
this was very useful bit of info! saved me a lot of effort too. cheers!
Thank u for help me.
OOps…..hey ….it says don’t steal music! go to the radio shop….and buy from there……
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