Tag: wget

How to Download Trailers from Apple.com

If you are like me, you find streaming trailers from Apple is a pain in the ass. I still prefer having the trailer locally and playing it locally, even if it means a bit of screwing around. Here’s a quick way to download trailers:

1. Install the Firefox web browser
2. Install the Greasemonkey add-on for Firefox
3. Install wget for Windows (most Linux distros will have it installed already)
4. Add the Apple Trailer Download script to your greasemonkey distribution.
5. Enable greasemonkey
6. Go to an Apple trailer page, like The Slammin’ Salmon page
7. Note in the bottom right you’ll get a little window with a bunch of links to the various versions – looks like this:

apple-greasemonkey

Right click, copy link location for the version you want

8. Open a command prompt and fire up wget thusly:

wget -U QuickTime [url of trailer]
You need to specify the -U parameter (User-Agent) as Apple rejects any requests for trailers that are not from QuickTime.

10. Realise that this method violates the Apple.com Terms of Use and stop doing it.

How to Record Triple J To Your Computer

After reading Hogfather’s post in this forum thread about people recording stuff off the radio it occurred to me that people probably don’t know how to do it in this new era of digital streaming radio.

Be aware that this is almost certainly not fair use and almost certainly is a violation of copyright. It is here for educational purposes only. I personally use this if there’s a song on the radio that I want to remember to look up later so I just grab a little bit of the lyrics so I can Google for it later to find out what song it is.

Here’s how to do it (you will need some familiarity with using the command line):

1) Get wget. I’ll assume you’re using Windows, so go to the wget for Windows page and grab the latest version.

2) Go the TripleJ website and look for the ‘Listen Live’ box which has the MP3 stream link.

3) Right click the link and save the file (triplej.m3u) to your computer.

4) Open that file in a text editor like notepad – it will just contain a single line, which will be a HTTP URL to the mp3 audio stream (at the time of writing that URL is http://202.6.74.107:8060/triplej.mp3).

5) Open your command prompt and invoke wget with that URL (or the URL in the file, if it’s different, obviously) as the parameter:

wget http://202.6.74.107:8060/triplej.mp3

This will start downloading an mp3 file which is a recording of what is playing on the Triple J stream.

WARNING: If you don’t stop it downloading, that file will grow to be huge. It will keep downloading as long as the stream is active. Just hit CTRL-C to stop it downloading once you’ve recorded the section of the song you want.