Ok so I'm trying to get an MP3 file off this website and I want to know if someone can help. I'm halfway through and am not sure if the rest is evern possible. So here's what it is... So the website has a flash player that is streaming the MP3 files. So I looked at the website source code and download the flash SWF file. Then I decompiled the flash file. It turns out that the flash file was playing these songs through an XML playlist. So I found the name of the XML playlist in the actionscript of the flash file and downloaded that too. The XML playlist has two MP3 links for both the songs. This is one of them:

http://umrg.edgeboss.net/flash/umrg/_pr ... outyou.mp3

But when I open this link, it takes me to another page with some text and another link, which seems to be encrypted. You can see that for yourself when you try to open the above MP3 link. The link the second time around is : "mp3:flash/_promo/wearethefallen/.uid.MeYQAQA5zF89qkDr8A10113fa1364a185d53eb31fe715b3fa1.withoutyou"

So anyone have any ideas??

I'm guessing the tune you want is We Are The Fallen's 'Without You'?

HQ copy here:

hey jetsonik, did you know that dino in your avatar has a major camel toe?

A little tip - the order of execution of these steps matters:
- Install and start up "Wireshark" and configure it to capture from the network device you connect to the internet through with a TCP filter and start capturing

- Go to the website and start streaming

- Press stop capture in wireshark

- Look out for green HTTP GET packets in wireshark, they may contain the URL to the media your browser requested

- If you see grey RTMP macromedia packets instead, you are pretty much fucked unless you have an awesome RTMP stream ripper (which is the case in your example here... flash decompiling is rarely needed btw)


Explore, experiment, learn Its not super easy, but it seems like you have a good idea of what you are doing, so i think you will be able to figure it out.

yeah pretty much! thanks for the hq copy... any idea how it was recorded?

thanks for the tip! well i think on this one though ive gone as far as i could go which is why I got stuck looks like the actual URL of the MP3 file is encrypted if im not wrong, and I have no idea how to decrypt! plus i dont have such a good knowledge of networking, and i doubt id be able to set up and use wireshark correctly

The MP3 file isnt hosted on a regular webserver that has URL's, but on a flash streaming server which is accessed through Adobes RTMP protocol (instead of for example HTTP or FTP). Since RTMP and HTTP are not compatible, there is not an actual URL to the MP3 file that can be opened in for example a browser. What you found is most likely a relative path to the file on the RTMP server. One will need a program that can communicate with the server via the RTMP protocol, or analyse/intercept the RTMP communication and extract the data.

This can be fairly difficult as Adobe and Co. tries everything they can to prevent people from bypassing this system, so that they can sell it to companies who wants to stream media to costumers, but not allow them to copy it (Like for example MySpace).

ah so long story short, no mp3 file off their website for me...

Not unless you find an RTMP ripper or record the sound with audacity for example

I was aware of that. Was kinda hoping no one else noticed.

ha! go it!! i used replay media catcher and that downloaded the mp3 file from the rmtp stream! thanks for the tip!