PodSafe Music - listening offline?
If you’ve ever visited the PodSafe Music Network site you might have noticed, that there is no way to actualy download the available music. You can however sign-up as a podcaster and so get a priviledge to download but for a price - you have to have an actual podcast you can sign-up with.
I was getting really annoyed with clicking on the site everytime I wanted to play a song, so I’ve rolled up my sleeves, figured out how are songs accessed by on-site flash player and wrote a bash script that knows how to download every song listen on one page. Its quite simple and the script works, while not being perfect tough (I recommend putting the URL in quotes to avoid any wierd bash interpretation).
You can get the script here.
USAGE:
./podsafe_dl.sh url_of_the_author_or_other_page_on_psmn
This downloads every mp3 listed on that page to the current directory and it appends the downloaded filenames to podsafe.m3u playlist file (one is created if it doesn’t exist).
Now you can listen to your favorite PodSafe artist while not being online, while walking with your iPod down the street and without creating your own podcast. Enjoy! :)
Disclaimer: This is probably not legal, so use with caution. Author (that’s me :) is not responsible for any action performed by this script and should not be held responsible if “hell brokes loose”.