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- I have noticed more often that some sites have their downloadable audio & video files set up a certain way: you can only listen/watch it in streaming mode. That is, it doesn’t automatically accumulate on your computer, because after you’ve watched it once and you press “play” again, it re-downloads the whole thing all over. - Now the problem is, if you only have a 56K modem (that usually ranges somewhere around 4 KB/sec) the audio/video file…buffers for 6 or 8 seconds…and then plays for one second…and then buffers again for 6 or 8 seconds…and then plays for one second…and buffers again for 6 or 8 seconds…and then plays for one second, all the way through. I can kinda understand sites not wanting to make it easy to record their content, but is there any easy way for me to save & watch the whole thing at once, off my own hard drive? Otherwise, whose f***ing idea was this anyway? Stuff setup like this is basically unusable on a regular connection. There can’t be that many people with cable modems out there. - MC
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You could try right-click on the link and “save target as…”
“Right clicking” won’t always work.
I know what you’re talking about–I find this type of downloading associated with streaming audio ala RealAudio.
There are programs out there (free ones, too!) that allow you to “stream” the audio into a file so that you can listen to it at a later time.
Voquette’s Media Manager is one such free program.
I hope this helps.
dietrologia
Depending on the record/playback utilities that came with your sound card you can probably capture the audio stream as it plays on your system as a humongous wave file and play it back later. I did this with a short real audio piece I captured with a sound blaster bundled recording utility and it worked fine. Make sure record quality is set to the lowest setting (ie radio quality) to keep your wav file sizes halfway managable.
I don’t think Real Audio will stream to a file by itself (at least it won’t in the non-deluxe, free versions I have used) and you will need one of the utilities mentioned in a previous post to capture it that way.
this is done to protect the streams from being captured and distributed without the owner’s consent
It should be in you cache. You just gotta figure out which one it is.
There’s an audio player called Ultraplayer that will capture streaming audio to an MP3 file. I don’t know if it can do it with all types of streaming audio, or just streaming mp3.