Many schools, colleges and workplaces have taken it upon themselves to block access to social networking sites such as Bebo, Facebook and MySpace, not to mention thousands of other “questionable” sites that they don’t want you looking at. Fortunately, there is a way around this and that is to use a proxy. To quickly explain how a proxy works, you type what website you want to look at and it downloads it to its server and then what it downloads is displayed on your screen, tricking any content filtering software into thinking that you’re looking at a non-blocked website! I have included a small utility which refers to an extensive list of these proxies when browsing. Enjoy!
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As of June 2007, RadioBlogClub have updated their web application which blocks this method from working. I’ll try find a workaround in the coming weeks
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. (opens in a new window)
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:
.
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! Note: It’s been reported that unix based operating systems will automagically realise that it’s an mp3.
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!
If you like what I’ve done, as a token of your appreciation, I’d be very grateful if you could find it within your hearts to feed me for a day by donating a euro or two 
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:
.
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!
28 Jan 07 - Some people reported that this doesn’t work any longer. This is not the case, I have just tried it and it does still work as described below. Enjoy!
The recent launch of Bebo bands wasn’t as high profile as I thought it could have been, with very few big bands officially supporting it. However, independent and little known bands have siezed the opportunity to make a name for themselves. Unfortunately, the Bebo Bands platform does not yet allow users to “download” the songs, instead only allowing them to be streamed. Thankfully though, the songs call on a piece of javascript in order to be played and that piece of javascript gives the full location of the .mp3 that was uploaded! So for anybody that’s familiar with HTML, head over to the ‘Songs’ section of a bands bebo profile and view it’s source. If you don’t want to sift through it, simply search for .mp3 within the code. For those who haven’t a notion about what I’m on about, I shall explain it.
Once you have found a band you like, click on the “Songs” tab at the top of the screen, this will bring you a page listing all the songs that that band have chosen to upload. Now that you’re on this page, right-click anywhere on the screen and a menu will appear beside your cursor. Navigate down towards the option “View Source” and click on it. A window should pop up with lots of confusing text in it. This is called HTML, a computer programming language used to create webpages. But we aren’t interested in that at the moment, instead we’ll go look for the MP3s. In the top left of that window, there’s a tab called “Edit”, click that and navigate towards “Find”. This will launch another window with a field in it that allows you to type your search terms. In this type “.mp3″ (without the quotes). Doing this will bring you to the mp3s within the code. Copy and paste the full address of this mp3 (everything within the ‘ ‘) and open up your web browser. In the address bar, paste the address and press go. It should ask you to save the file. To move onto the next .mp3, simply click “Find Next” within the Notepad search window.
Hope that’s of some use to you. Good luck!
PS: This does not work on the MySpace music player because that uses Flash.
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