Do you listen to music on IMEEM or MySpace? Do you get sick of navigating far into the internet just to listen to those few songs which are not already on your computer? Don't you just wish you could download them, and have them right there where you need them? Well now you can do just that. With Free Music Zilla, downloading files being streamed to your computer is easy as can be.
To the best of my knowledge Free Music Zilla has invented a unique anti leech "hack" to get around websites' attempts to prevent nabbing music from their live audio streams. The software previously limited a ten file a day file download maximum, but a recent update has changed the amount to unlimited, making it worthy of recognition, and worthy of blogging.
Setting up Free Music Zilla is very easy. Go into Tools > Preferences > Monitoring. If your web browser is listed, check the box next to it and Free Music Zilla will be seamlessly be compatible with your web browser. If your browser is not listed, then click the "Browser..." button and navigate to the executable in windows explorer. As you may well know from my previous posts, I am using, and blogging directly from the Flock web browser. Free Music Zilla works fine with Flock (another reason to download Flock!)
The program could not be simpler to use; Simply open up Free Music Zilla, start your stream (go to a page with streaming music) and in the Free Music Zilla window, a text string will appear (usually very long and random.) There will be a check box next to this entry. Check the box, and click the download button to start downloading your music. The download should be started before the leech timeout reaches zero, or else your file will not download properly (or at all). You can set a specific file download location in your preferences, where all your files will go. This may be changed at any time.
Depending on which website you are downloading music from, you may need to do a bit of converting. I mainly use IMEEM, which stores its files as an .FLV format. There is a very simple solution to this problem; a 234 KB program called flv2mp3. What does this do? It converts an .FLV audio file to an .MP3 (thus the title). This program can be found here: http://file2hd.com/tools.html (Download link: http://file2hd.com/flv2mp3.zip) This is by no means a powerful program, but its free light and works perfectly fine. All you do is click the button, choose your file, and it does the rest.
There is not much more to Free Music Zilla. It is fairly self explanatory, and works flawlessly. Most of my praise is due to the new update, allowing unlimited file downloads. This truly makes the software a mandatory download for any music enthusiasts out there. I definitely recommend it.
*Requirements*
64 MB of RAM
6 MB of free disk space
Microsoft Windows 2000 / XP / 2003 / Vista
Free Music Zilla Link: http://www.freemusiczilla.com/
Download Link: http://www.freemusiczilla.com/download/FMZsetup.exe
-Adam
Blogged with the Flock Browser
No comments:
Post a Comment