Ok so everyone is now waiting for my post about the topic.
As the trend goes, multiply has joined the ranks of imeem, myspace, pandora, radioblog, esnips and other sites that stream media via flash player. The reason that multiply wanted to ease the members from opening other programs and playing the music on the browser itself is crap. They should have retained the playlist link if that was the idea. It is pretty obvious they wanted to get rid of the downloading multiply users do which puts multiply on the hot seat of copyright issues. I have nothing against multiply. I respect them for that. As a webmaster I understand the pressure these legal things put on to site owners especially when it comes to music and movies. We wouldnt want them to shut down the whole site, would we?
Having said all those rants, lets all go to the juicy part. How to download music.
Its the old fashion way. Use orbitdownloader’s Grab ++ on Firefox, or use Free Music Zilla.
Orbit Downloader
Play the music on the flashplayer then click on the grab button (a little down arrow above the flash image if orbitdownloader is installed). Then download the song.
Free Music Zilla
Open Free Music Zilla then play the music on the flashplayer. The download link will automatically appear on the free music zilla window for which you can download.
Make sure you play the music or else your downloader will not be able to find any media stream.
There are other internet downloader out there that would probably work but these are two softwares I have been using and works fine with me. No adwares or spywares.
Cons: You have to give effort on this one and download the music one by one. Unlike before when you can download the whole playlist with a single click. But that even dont give you 100% since there is an anti-leech installed on multiply. This means time out will occur after a few minutes and your link will be invalid unless you refresh the page.
Pros: You can use this trick on other sites such as myspace, imeem, radioblog, pandora, etc.
Good thing multiply has not installed the flv function thus the music you download is its actual file. No need to convert flv to mp3 or get an flv player.
This trick also works on videos on youtube, and other video sites.
My suggestion to multiply, since they are currently exerting efforts to sell premium accounts, why not put the download links on members who have premium accounts. I wouold understand if the free users dont have a download link since this would be a good marketing move. The only difference between premium and free users are the ads and the file storage limitation and duration of unshared videos and pictures. I am sure they are silent when it comes to music because that issue is still debatable among themselves (multiply staff). Put a claw in marketing by giving download links (the old original download links on each song and not just the playlist) to premium users.
Disclaimer: I do not support copyright infringement and do not have any intention of encouraging people to violating the law. I do not support intend to destroy multiply or any other sites with suggestions of downloading music which they are obviously trying hard to remove without actually admitting. The downloader softwares are not my own and I am not responsible if anything goes wrong to your PC or yourself in relation to using it.
