Comments on: Freemusiczilla: Best Music Downloader I’ve Tested

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By: ilovemusic

ilovemusic — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 08:21:38 +0000

Despite the fact that all this negative feedbacks on this little tiny program, why don’t you guys think about all the other programs that do a similar job as this one? aren’t those bad? ie. songbird? I have a scarce knowledge on music software but i’m sure there are positive usage on this program. trust me, there isn’t such legal ilegal stuffs. kazaa, limewire, frostwire,emule…legal? f that. they should all be gone

By: Luke

Luke — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 05:13:36 +0000

For all those discussing FreeMusicZilla getting blocked - it won’t happen. Why? Because when you stream audio(whether via Flash or otherwise), it’s at least temporarily stored to your hard drive. Freemusiczilla just accesses the data that was stored and uses that.

Regarding Freemusiczilla getting shut down? It’s possible. But like many others have said, it’s a good idea and it’s likely that others will reproduce it if that happens.

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 00:36:05 +0000

Hasn’t anyone heard of Java or XUL?

Mac and Linux users are SOL when it comes to this app.

At least there are alternatives.

By: patricia de miranda

patricia de miranda — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 10:49:23 +0000

great tool
but If … who use this tool will do it for to save his favorite song only, without to do distribution of the files… so, with responsibility I find that does not injure the artist, or it injures??
so i will run for to download the tools and save all the songs that i love in my space ;))

By: mr.silencewolf

mr.silencewolf — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 06:31:20 +0000

i think free music zilla is as cool as orbit downloader.

By: fishathome

fishathome — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 01:08:30 +0000

Yeah, good tools can download songs from IMEEM. It is a real imeem downloader

By: theleafs

theleafs — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:45:52 +0000

I’ve been using this program for a few months and it’s great and last.fm is an excellent way to discover new music….highly recommended.

By: Uzik

Uzik — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:02:51 +0000

Don’t worry about them blocking this application. If you’re not using Vista and it plays through your speakers then you can record it. There’s nothing any of the streaming music sites can do to change that basic fact (other than tell non Vista users that can’t use the service). Even with Vista there’s always the opportunity to put an audio recorder’s microphone next to the speakers.

Another application that does this is “Audacity” (but it looks like this application is simpler to use).

By: jive

jive — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 23:56:23 +0000

if they block it you could always send the audio output to your cassette deck :p

By: stag

stag — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 19:17:13 +0000

Hey, what are the Mac alternatives to this?

By: Gordon

Gordon — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 18:12:34 +0000

To th:

If you’re not getting paid by the RIAA to uphold their antiquated, self-serving, and illegitimate position, why not? You’re missing a second source of income. As it is, Cameron was mistaken. Your’re an RIAA dupe, not a shill.

The RIAA wants you to think it’s illegal to record songs off the air, or to rip your own CDs and put them on your iPod. According to them, you have to pay again and again for the same song, every time you want it in a new format. They’re wrong.

When a song is broadcast, the license fee is paid. It’s done. They’ve gotten their money. When you buy a song, whether on CD, iTunes, or vinyl, they’ve been paid. They don’t get paid again every time you listen to it. They don’t get paid again for every device you play it on. They get paid *once*, when the song is broadcast or bought.

Second, downloading music is not illegal. If a radio station (internet or airwaves) is playing a song, you *have* to download it (receive it) just to play it. It’s not illegal to record it.

What *is* illegal is for you to broadcast it without paying the fee. If you’ll look past the RIAA’s obfusications, you’ll see that they are suing people for *sharing* music, not for downloading it.

By: Faz

Faz — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 17:23:04 +0000

Can anyone tell me how to remove the ten song limit on this thing.

By: Peabody

Peabody — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 15:31:20 +0000

I wonder if anyone else here has realized that anything playing on your sound card can be captured with most wave editors. If not, there’s always the handy stereo patch cable that goes from the line out to line in.

By: For Helen

For Helen — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 15:25:31 +0000

Helen,

It’s pretty simple. They convince record companies that their service allows more people to discover (and buy) the music. Why do you think you can’t skip to any part of the song, replay a song, etc? Because the services assure the companies that people can’t just select a song and have it played, it has to be “discovered” through related music.

By: jeremias

jeremias — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 14:36:41 +0000

linux equivalent anyone?

By: Helen_Tarnation

Helen_Tarnation — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 12:01:16 +0000

I don’t get it. If an individual shares copyrighted music through a P2P network, they are liable for prosecution. If a person downloads music from a P2P network they may be liable.
The individual who shares music they have purchased through a P2P network or some other means where they do not pay the artists or the record company any royalties is committing a crime no?
So how do these social music networks work then? Don’t they buy music from artists or record companies and then share those songs online for free? If so, then how are social music networks sharing music they bought any different than individuals sharing music they bought?

By: silvano

silvano — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 05:53:52 +0000

i believe its either nexus radio or songbird that does the same thing.

By: El Barto

El Barto — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 05:41:15 +0000

can I get free porn vidz off of this site too besides music?

By: mst 1048

mst 1048 — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 05:24:09 +0000

OR you can just download music free and legally at RCRDLBL.COM

By: Captain Obvious I

Captain Obvious I — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 04:51:45 +0000

“I did not have illegal downloading relations with that client.”

Ok, seriously guys, two things:

1.) Of course they aren’t going to say “Great for downloading music illegally!”. No software program in their right mind would do that. Obviously, the usefulness of the program is hallmarked by its ability to capture music illegally.

2.) Concerned about not being able to use your little program to rip great music off sites like Pandora? Wow, that sucks. How about the fact that record companies may become wary of signing contracts with Pandora, Last.fm, etc, and thus…we have no personalized radio at all. That’s what I am worried about!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 03:01:47 +0000

For Last.FM program users… Setting the custom browser to LastFM.exe worked like a charm.

By: th

th — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 02:52:51 +0000

Cameron,
That is insulting to suggest that I am an “obviously paid RIAA commentator” because I question the ethics of TechCrunch on this post. All I have done is ask them (or you or anyone else) to clarify their rationale for promoting this tool with a positive review. BTW, it seems really weird that you say that you agree with me, but for some reason readers are supposed to believe that you’re not in their pocket, but other commenters are? Doesn’t matter though - we can agree or disagree on topics such as this. I happen to run my own tech business that has absolutely nothing to do with music or downloads of any kind. I’m still interested in an explanation, because this wasn’t just a news post - it was a “go get this” posting.

By: Marshall Kirkpatrick

Marshall Kirkpatrick — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:49:34 +0000

SongBird does at least a lot of the same stuff and has unlimited downloads. Plus it’s built on Mozilla and is real developer friendly. I’ve just been using it this week and am pretty darned happy with it.

By: Cameron Newland

Cameron Newland — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:33:57 +0000

I agree with the obviously paid RIAA commenters who commented before me on this post…this is pretty much only useful for illegal downloading, or circumventing a protective process that’s there for a reason.

Anyways, I tried it out to see if I could rip a piece of music content that I PERSONALLY OWN ALL OF THE RIGHTS TO that’s on Last.fm, and it didn’t work. Ripping any song from last.fm didn’t work, running Vista on IE7/Firefox2. It worked on IMEEM, but saved in an FLV file, not .mp3. Perhaps last.fm already changed their player to stop Freemusiczilla?