Download Quicktime "Live 8" Concerts Using Automator

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[Mitthrawnuruodo]

Automator seems a little overkill... why not just install and use wget?

Then it's quite easy to get e.g. Pink Floyd:

wget http://pdl.stream.aol.com/aol/us/aolmusic/specials/2005/live8/london/london_090_pinkfloyd_breathe_dl.mov
wget http://pdl.stream.aol.com/aol/us/aolmusic/specials/2005/live8/london/london_091_pinkfloyd_money_dl.mov
wget http://pdl.stream.aol.com/aol/us/aolmusic/specials/2005/live8/london/london_092_pinkfloyd_wishyouwerehere_dl.mov
wget http://pdl.stream.aol.com/aol/us/aolmusic/specials/2005/live8/london/london_093_pinkfloyd_comfortablynumb_dl.mov

[mduser63]

Automator seems a little overkill... why not just install and use wget?

Then it's quite easy to get e.g. Pink Floyd:


Even easier, use curl as it's included with Tiger. No need to install anything.

curl -o breathe.mov http://pdl.stream.aol.com/aol/us/aolmusic/specials/2005/live8/london/london_090_pinkfloyd_breathe_dl.mov
curl -o money.mov http://pdl.stream.aol.com/aol/us/aolmusic/specials/2005/live8/london/london_091_pinkfloyd_money_dl.mov
curl -o wywh.mov http://pdl.stream.aol.com/aol/us/aolmusic/specials/2005/live8/london/london_092_pinkfloyd_wishyouwerehere_dl.mov
curl -o cn.mov http://pdl.stream.aol.com/aol/us/aolmusic/specials/2005/live8/london/london_093_pinkfloyd_comfortablynumb_dl.mov

[punter]

easier then curl, just press... oh wait, there is no way easier then that. Good work mduser63

[Nermal]

Nice high-quality videos too :D not the usual "streaming" rubbish (although admittedly they could've got even better quality at the same bitrate if they wanted to)

Edit: Can anyone get Coldplay "Fix You" working? I can download it (done it twice) but get an error from QuickTime when trying to play it.

[jimsowden]

Nice high-quality videos too :D not the usual "streaming" rubbish (although admittedly they could've got even better quality at the same bitrate if they wanted to)

Edit: Can anyone get Coldplay "Fix You" working? I can download it (done it twice) but get an error from QuickTime when trying to play it.
Yeah, it's not working. BUT EVEN EASIER!
open the window, do a search for .mov in the source
open that in a new safari window, command-a ->option click the asset.

[utah_boy2]

How large is the file? if you downloaded Pink Flyod - Money?

if its small enough could you e-mail me?

-Jordan

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

How large is the file? if you downloaded Pink Flyod - Money?

if its small enough could you e-mail me?

-JordanMoney is 75.8 MB, maybe just on the large side for most smtps... ;)

[utah_boy2]

That would not work then. But thanks for the fast reply!


if anyone has the burning desire to help me out, could you use the yousendit.com service? I think that can go all the way to 1GB.

-Jordan

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

Why don't you just download it yourself from here (http://pdl.stream.aol.com/aol/us/aolmusic/specials/2005/live8/london/london_091_pinkfloyd_money_dl.mov) ? :confused:

In Safari just option-click the link (or after it's opened just save it: cmd-S or File -> Save As...)

[Chaszmyr]

Why don't you just download it yourself from here (http://pdl.stream.aol.com/aol/us/aolmusic/specials/2005/live8/london/london_091_pinkfloyd_money_dl.mov) ? :confused:

In Safari just option-click the link (or after it's opened just save it: cmd-S or File -> Save As...)

Even easier, tell someone you live with to go download all the videos :p

[utah_boy2]

Why don't you just download it yourself from here (http://pdl.stream.aol.com/aol/us/aolmusic/specials/2005/live8/london/london_091_pinkfloyd_money_dl.mov) ? :confused:

In Safari just option-click the link (or after it's opened just save it: cmd-S or File -> Save As...)

That was easy !! I guess I just hadn't thought I could do that. :D

Thanks,
-Jordan

[dejo]

Why don't you just download it yourself from here (http://pdl.stream.aol.com/aol/us/aolmusic/specials/2005/live8/london/london_091_pinkfloyd_money_dl.mov) ? :confused:

In Safari just option-click the link (or after it's opened just save it: cmd-S or File -> Save As...)

I tried that and the saved file was only 8 KB. Seems rather small...

[B@SS_SHOCK]

Sucky, I wanted to export them as .3gp files to stick em on my mobile for work but all clips have Export greyed out.

[edesignuk]

Anyone else finding these incomplete? :(

[utah_boy2]

it worked for me - just finished the download, and its playing fine.

I just saved the file from dejo post.

-Jordan

[dejo]

it worked for me - just finished the download, and its playing fine.

I just saved the file from dejo post.

-Jordan

How big was your saved file?

[utah_boy2]

How big was your saved file?

I have two downloaded now and the size is

1) Pink Flyod - money : 75.8MB
2) Pink Flyod - Wish you Were Here : 46.1 MB

-Jordan

If you can find the link for " The Who 'Won't Get Fooled Again' " I would really like it, I can't find the link when I do the veiw source thing, maybe I'm not looking hard enough

[ham_man]

I just downloaded using wget. Worked fantastic...

[utah_boy2]

Someone has a site up with all the links - you just have to save them.

http://www.sonician.com/live8/list.html

-Jordan

[Nermal]

Anyone know how to get the songs (just the audio) onto your iPod? I imported them into iTunes but got an error when trying to convert to AAC or ALS.

Edit: I found a long-winded way of doing it: Use Toast to convert .mov to .Sd2f, import the .Sd2f files into iTunes, convert to AAC, add tags.