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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