Monday, 17 March 2008

Downloading music from music.pz10.com

There is a famous website for all the music lovers called music.pz10.com. If you have visited it earlier than you might be knowing that it only allows the songs to be downloaded by their premium members. According to them, the songs offered to premium members are of higher bitrate and in mp3 format as compared to those that are streamed in wma format of approx. 64kbps. But the quality of streaming songs is decent enough to hear. Go on and try some...

So you have heard couple of songs and might be wishing to have them downloaded to listen them offline. Is there any method? Yes, Indeed there are few methods!

One method is getting the songs from the temporary folder. But you have to wait for every song to finish playing. So this method is too much time consuming :(

Another method would be to have some software that can catch streaming songs like WM Recorder or google for more options.

I will tell you my method. You will need Firefox(Most of you might be already having it), a download manager for accelerated speeds and better management(Orbit or flashget). Here is step by step method:

1) Open music.pz10.com and open the album page which you want to download. I'll download Kuldeep Manak's "Jogi" .

2) Select the songs you want to download and select "Windows Media" radio button. and click the "Play selected songs".
















3) A new popup window will open. If it doesn't then make sure that it is added to whitelist of the pop up blocker(or NoScript addon).



4) Right Click the media player bar shown above and select "Properties" and Copy the location of the playlist. You may now close the popup window if you want.



5) Paste this link into the download manager and download the playlist.

6) Now open the playlist file you got in notepad and voila!!! you will get the direct link for all the songs that you have selected in the first step.



7) Paste these links directly into your download manager and you will get all the songs right on your hard disk after your download manager completes downloading ;)

8) Optional:
I coded a little utility that will copy the links in the playlist file. Just open Orbit and make sure that "Clipboard Monitoring" is checked and dragdrop the playlist file to the program window.

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Enjoy music!