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great article! I feel bad,

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:05:25 -0700

great article! I feel bad, but when a blog's mp3 dries up, what are you going to do?

Thanks. A friend of mine has

Anonymous — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:02:46 -0800

Thanks.
A friend of mine has uploaded a greasemonkey script that adds direct download links to hype machine pages.

It's a good question. The

Tom — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 13:46:56 -0800

It's a good question. The simple answer is just that I'm not familiar enough with Flash to have thought of it (or have been comfortable relying on it). But I also wanted something that'd run on the server side, and porting an encryption library from one language to another seemed like a recipe for hard-to-replicate bugs. But congrats on doing it -- and thanks for letting me know that it isn't too horrific a process. It's good to know that I can use that technique in the future.

DiscGoIsUm: Yeah, if you

Tom — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 17:28:45 -0800

DiscGoIsUm: Yeah, if you just want the MP3s live HTTP (or any other wire-sniffing utility) is perfectly sufficient. If you want a more general-purpose client-side solution, it isn't.

Jim: An oversight on my part -- thank you for pointing it out. I've removed the URL.

Anonymous: I'm not really interested in creating other Flash clients, so the actionscript decryption routines weren't something I felt like delving into more than necessary. I think it's more interesting to take the routine and move it into a generalized form. I've successfully ported it to javascript as well, although of course I won't be posting that...

Of course, ActionScript isn't too far removed from JS, so this last point may seem unimpressive. But again, I wanted to avoid simply relying on meychi's library

If Flare can decompile the

Anonymous — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 17:02:26 -0800

If Flare can decompile the source, then why did you rewrite the decryption routines when they're all contained in the players' source files?

Also, I know you changed the

Jim — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 16:58:50 -0800

Also, I know you changed the key, but you didn't alter the url which points to the Flashing Lights mp3...