iPod Free Music Videos

[Ipaqman]

i don't know how to do this would someone please provide step by step instructions. also, i dont know where the fav button is.

thanks so much,
ipaqman

 

[devman]

i don't know how to do this would someone please provide step by step instructions. also, i dont know where the fav button is.

thanks so much,
ipaqman

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[The Tuck]

Thanks!

My friend, this is an awesome idea. Thank you!

 

[Ipaqman]

when i drag the fav button on aol's site into the download window it just downloads the site picture. when i click on the music video on aol's site it just opens up the video in a new window and there is nothing to drag. can someone please let me know what i am doing wrong?

thanks so much,
ipaqman

 

[jaykk]

Here is my first attempt at Automator to download AOL movies ( I hardly ever used Automator before - I don't know if I can zip the workflow and attach it here. In the mean time, i am attaching the screenshot).

1) Get the free copy-view-source automator action from here
2) create the Automator workflow as shown below
3) Watch the aol video - it has to be the front most Safari window
4) Run automator script
5) Switch to TextEdit, it will have only the paragraph containing URL, drag and drop ( or copy/paste) the URL to Safari download

 

[Ipaqman]

any way of doing it with a pc?

 

[johnbro23]

Here is my first attempt at Automator to download AOL movies ( I hardly ever used Automator before - I don't know if I can zip the workflow and attach it here. In the mean time, i am attaching the screenshot).

1) Get the free copy-view-source automator action from here
2) create the Automator workflow as shown below
3) Watch the aol video - it has to be the front most Safari window
4) Run automator script
5) Switch to TextEdit, it will have only the paragraph containing URL, drag and drop ( or copy/paste) the URL to Safari download

Yousendit.com.

Free hosting of up to 1 GB for a week.

 

[Ipaqman]

thanks jaykk for all of your help... this is awesome, but is there any other faster way?

thanks again u guys are great.

ipaqman

 

[yg17]

One thing I noticed about these videos, is that when you import them into iTunes, you can''t do the "set poster frame" thing which sucks.

But they're free though, I'm not going to complain that I just added 63 music vids to my collection without spending a dime

 

[darwen]

I am glad I suggested this. I thought a bunch of people would either tell me that what I was doing was wrong or that everyone already knew this trick.

I found out why it wasn't letting me download the videos as quicktime movies from that little arrow drop-down. You need to wait until it finishes loading the entire movie. I should have known this. (The same holds true for File>Save File As...")

It is easy to drag and drop on a Mac though. For the people asking about PC's... my directions (in the topic post) should work on a PC. They work on any system, they just take a little longer.

Also... the resolution is 320x240 and the file format is ".mov". I am not sure about the encoder though. These may cause problems going onto the iPod if they are not MPEG-4 or H.264.

 

[Flowbee]

Here is my first attempt at Automator to download AOL movies...

Thanks. Works like a charm.

 

[Ipaqman]

hey all,

i got 1 more question. sometimes when i click on one of the music videos from aol it opens up with qucktime and other times it open's up with real player. when it open's up with quicktime it downloads perfectly fine and when it opens up with real player i can't seem to download it.

could someone please help with this?

thanks,
ipaqman

 

[johnbro23]

When I tried it with Ben Folds (I love me the ben folds!!) it was some funky URL starting with "rtsp://" and safari didn't know what to do with it..

Couldn't download either Ben Folds video, any suggestions?

Yea, I'm having the same problem. Does anyone have any solutions?

 

[the_freddinator]

any way of doing it with a pc?

IE- you can search through the page source for the movie file OR try the google method.

FF- drag fav->download

Most of these methods posted are not mac/pc only. As long as you have a browser that doesn't suck (anything other than IE), you should be alright.

 

[adaaaam]

Yeah, there seems to be no way to downlaod the videos on PCs. When you click the video links it starts playing a Windows Media video instead of a QuickTime one, and when I searched through the source code and downloaded all the WMVs referenced, none of them played, so it must be a stream or I just can't find the right file. As for the QuickTime versions, you Mac users are lucky, all the videos are non-stream movs, so you guys better start downloading them by the hundreds until AOL fixes this. I assume it's going to be fixed because this is AOL Video Beta

For now I just downloaded the mov mentioned in the first post. Would anyone on a Mac be able to give me the link for Kylie Minogue's Love At First Sight video? Thanks.

 

[balamw]

Yea, I'm having the same problem. Does anyone have any solutions?

rtsp:// means that it's pointing to a stream formatted for Real Player or Windows Media. i.e. you're out of luck for downloading something easily in a QT compatible format.

Looks like you could capture Real Video streams with mplayer, at least on linux. http://thomer.com/howtos/capture_realstream.html. But it still wouldn't get you a QT comaptible file.

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[Nermal]

rtsp:// means that it's pointing to a stream formatted for Real Player or Windows Media

RTSP is Real Time Streaming Protocol, used for RealMedia and streaming QuickTime. Windows Media uses MMS.

 

[noelister]

Free videos

I would like to see Apple Have a free video Download every so often, if not every week. I think this would help promote the new video campaign.

 

[jaykk]

AOL is getting smarter

AOL started wrapping entire movie into flash, so you cant view source and find out the actual movie name. I started noticing more and more music videos like this now. Get it while you can.

Also, i have written an application to download with one click(similar to iGetMovies). I will host it later. Anyone have any suggestions for a good name?

 

[DarkNetworks]

Also, i have written an application to download with one click(similar to iGetMovies). I will host it later. Anyone have any suggestions for a good name?

awesome..looking forward to it...

 

[Nermal]

Also, i have written an application to download with one click(similar to iGetMovies). I will host it later. Anyone have any suggestions for a good name?

I made an app like that a few years ago for Launch.com

 

[jaykk]

Suggestions for hosting the file.

I am just a lurker here, I don't post much on here. So I don't know all the rules in here. Can I attach it here? I see that zip is an allowed attachment format in here. Or can someone suggest a place to host it? Its my first attempt at AppleScript based app. I have it all ready to go.

 

[Nermal]

If it zips to less than 100 KB, then you can attach it here. If it's too big, I might be able to host it for you

 

[jaykk]

Here you go

Enjoy!!

Its a quick and dirty app, but does the trick. Its my first attempt at applescript , so any suggestions are welcome.


Edit:
Fixed Version:

 

[balamw]

RTSP is Real Time Streaming Protocol, used for RealMedia and streaming QuickTime. Windows Media uses MMS.

I stand corrected. So would mplayer still be able to grab the QT stream?

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