Seeqpod Is Gone, Now What?
Posted by voice | Filed under Techie
So if you’re like me you were pretty pissed off when Seeqpod shutdown back in April. If you don’t know what happened long story short is that the RIAA went ahead and sued the little man into oblivion because they couldn’t play ball with the big boys like Google or Yahoo, seems to be a reoccuring theme with the RIAA.
That doesn’t mean we’re out of luck just yet though, you see, because all browsers download static content to your computer in the form of a Cache File. While this wont work for streaming solutions that use the Flash Streaming system, like LaunchCAST (if thats still up), it does work for a majority of other sites. How do you retrieve this treasure-trove of goodness? Well at least on Linux its very very easy…almost too easy. Assuming you use Gnome and Firefox…
- First off, you’re going to want to open up your home directory, on Gnome this is under Places.
- Once you open that you’re going to need to find Mozilla’s hidden directory where they store all of their stuff, hit Ctrl+H to expose the hidden directories and go on ahead from there.
- Go into the ‘firefox’ directory, this will be different almost every time you clear out your Cache, but you’re looking for a folder that looks like ‘32rnp081.default’ and clicking on it.
- One more folder to go, click on ‘Cache’ by now your pwd should be /home/youraccount/.mozilla/firefox/.default/Cache.
Once there you’ll find a bunch of crap but at least on my system music is identified with a musical note icon, making identification a lot easier for me. Drag the file to the desktop, append .mp3, and there you go, you’ve just obtained a song for free from the internet. A word of caution however, since I used the google method to find mp3s, you’ll be hit up with a lot of false results and pornographic ads but thats all part of the game, you’ll also find that the quality of the mp3s is rather varied.
All of this being said, I cannot stress this enough, you need to support the bands you love, find some way to give your money to the band (I try to avoid giving to the record companies because they tend to take 90% of the profits anyways, whos the thief now RIAA?) be it either going to live shows our purchasing gear from the band’s website. Support the artists, not the companies that do absolutely nothing other than record songs, which can be done on a standard computer by the way.
