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Console.fm: A Guide to Download the Tracks for Free

28 points| filipmares | 14 years ago |filipmares.com | reply

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[+] tuhin|14 years ago|reply
They are sending a lot of info in that GET request:

http://ak-media.soundcloud.com/xpO4gBZA21w4.128.mp3?AWSAcces...

128 bitrate? Amazon access key Expires ?? No idea what gda is. Also their signature.

This is security 101 right? Or is this normal for a service of this kind? Also are they officially using the Soundcloud API? if yes, is this one of the responses of the API?

[+] filipmares|14 years ago|reply
not sure on the security implications, but this could have easily been masked through some backend call.
[+] amanelis|14 years ago|reply
A lot of these services can be gamed and all the songs can be downloaded. You can easily download every song from turntable.fm as well, its not rocket science. Open up the Chrome developer console and look at the network tab...

We are working on securing/masking the url, but at the end of the day, Console.fm is not a true stream, so we cannot securely give the user the song with out the soundcloud .mp3

Please voice any advice you have on this issue or help out, open to suggestions as to we are looking into a proper fix right now.

[+] headbiznatch|14 years ago|reply
If a sound (like a stream) is playing on your computer, it can be ripped directly from the playback device. I've done it in the past with complete preservation of the sound's fidelity, but I suppose it might not always be possible.
[+] Andreasvb|14 years ago|reply
It's much easier than that, just take any song link that's not playing and open in a new tab, or just choose "Save link as...", works in Google Chrome. :)
[+] mattcurry|14 years ago|reply
Won't the new Pandora HTML5 site have this same problem?
[+] ericmoritz|14 years ago|reply
I thought they were going to get around this by using a hidden flash player but most reports I've seen says it's going to be pure HTML5. I wouldn't put it past tech writers to get something wrong but if it is as they say and is pure HTML5, then yes it could be done.
[+] amanelis|14 years ago|reply
that will depend on if they are giving the user a true stream, or doing it as a progressive download. its pandora, I'd assume they would be streaming.
[+] MostAwesomeDude|14 years ago|reply
Any Pandora implementation has this problem; there is a command-line Pandora client, pianobar, which I trivially hacked to save to disk.

As long as there is DRM, there will be ways to trivially break DRM.

[+] matthewcieplak|14 years ago|reply
If you find a "hack" like this on a music website, keep it to your self. If you post about it, they'll try to fix it or obscure it but who knows if some guy at soundcloud will revoke their api key first or some major label dick will initiate legal proceedings forthwith. And then you've just kicked your favorite music site in the nuts, congratulations.

By the way, if you can stream it, you can download it, on any service. One-time use streaming keys are no defense against right clicking. It's just a matter of how much patience you have to expose the underlying URL.

[+] filipmares|14 years ago|reply
Can you download the stream from Grooveshark? DRMed flash.