I previously wrote about Moby Gratis, a repository of downloadable music created by pop star Moby that’s available for filmmakers to use in independent, student, and non-profit films or videos. This week, the service seems to have been expanded, with the following recently added (according to their email statement): “the whole Wait for Me ambient →
ClipNabber: download videos from a wide range of services, on any browser (including Chrome)
I was recently doing research for a post (Twelve Must Have Extensions for Google Chrome) and was surprised that there did not seem to be any simple “download any video from any video sharing site” extensions for Chrome, similar to DownThemAll or Download Helper for Firefox. What I wanted was a plugin that can produce →
StreamTransport: download videos from Hulu as well as other encrypted or unencrypted media sites
StreamTransport is a free video downloading software that can download media from video sharing sites such as YouTube as well as encrypted media (video or music) from sites such as Hulu. It can browse and download media from sites using HTTP, RTMP, RTMPT, RTMPE, and RTMPTE protocols, which covers most video and media sharing sites. →
Songr: finds and downloads mp3s, identifies songs by their lyrics, and downloads (audio or video) from YouTube
Songr is a free desktop app that can find downloadable MP3s from multiple sources on the internet. In addition, it allows for a “lyrics search” option that can identify and download songs based on parts of lyrics that a you might remember. It also can download YouTube videos or alternately only the audio part of →
Tubemaster Plus Plus: download media from media sharing sites (including encrypted sites)
Tubemaster Plus Plus (the sequel to previously mentioned Tubmaster Plus) can download media (video/audio) from video sharing sites such as YouTube, Vimeo, MySpace, Dailymotion and others, as well as encrypted media from “ani-leeching” websites sites such as Imeen, Pandora and Last.fm.TM++ can also perform on-the-fly format conversions as well as general Video and MP3 searches. →
Freezer: download MP3s from Imeem, Deezer, Jiwa.Fm; possibly others
Freezer is a free, portable program that can download mp3s from some song sharing sites that such as Imeem, Deezer or jiwa.fm that use anti-leeching protection to prevent song downloading. If you are familiar with the music sharing sites mentioned above you’re probably thinking that Freezer is very good news indeed. This program was apparently →
RipShout: rip Shoutcast internet radio stations to your hard drive with RipShout
RipShout saves the audio from “shoutcast” internet radio stations directly to your hard drive. It will preserve the song’s IDv3 tag info and organize recorded audio by creating a folder for each artist and saving the individual tracks within it. This has to be the world’s most straightforward internet radio recorder/”ripper”. All you need to →
Download mp3s and automatically add them to Itunes with Tunestor
Tunestor is an extension for IE and Firefox that allows for downloading MP3s and adding them to your Itunes library in one fell swoop from the browser context menu. This browser extension aims to condense what would typically involve 4 different steps into a single, simple right-click command. While normally you would need to (1) →
Orbit Downloader
Orbit Downloader is a download manager and accelerator that can download files from any remote server via HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, RTSP, MMS and Metalink protocols. It will detect and download flash files (including FLV video files) from any site, including YouTube. Used with its Grab++ module, it can download streaming media of any kind, including →
How to download songs from Radio.Blog.Club
Radio.blog.club, if you haven’t heard of it, is a sort of YouTube for mp3’s. Users can join the community for free and upload songs. Like YouTube, there are literally thousands of songs uploaded in every conceivable genre/category. Is it legal, you ask? It is if users upload non-copyrighted audio. Which is to say that it →
URL Snooper
URL Snooper can identify URLs that are hidden behind javascript or activex scripts. It can be used to identify the URLs for streaming video and audio files so they can be downloaded locally. URL Snooper is a so-called packing sniffing program. You need to tell it to start ’sniffing’ the network before you launch the →
Vixy
Vixy is a website that provides 3 services; it can download YouTube and other embedded FLV videos straight into a number of different video formats, including Ipod MP4, and it can Generate video RSS feeds or video Podcasts using either a YouTube URL or keyword search. I’ve been looking for a good solution for how →
