Freezer is a free little program
that allows you to download music from sites like
deezer or jiwa.fm. It has been built as a
proof-of-concept to demonstrate that whatever effort
is made to prevent songs downloading, those sites
are still very unsecure concerning the way musics
are diffused. The poc will probably be extended to
more sites, as it is based upon an inherant flaw
they all have in their streaming scheme.
You should solely use this program
to download "open" musics, which are copyleft, the
only ones that you can download without breaking the
law. I couldn't be taken responsible for any misuse
of freezer.
As the program is in beta state, it
must remains a lot of bugs, but it works anyway.
The program filters/parse every http
data which circulates between your browser and the
remote website. When a song from deezer or jiwa is
detected, it shows a dialog box asking to save the
music. Then it saves the stream into a temporary
file which is decoded when the download finishes.
How to use: you
need to (1) start the program and keep it open, (2)
change your browser proxy to the one specified by
the program (more on this
here
and below), and (3) to surf over to any of the
supported sites and launch a song. A "save file"
dialog will appear whenever a song is about to be
played, allowing you to save (or not). More info on
how to use here.
Portable: no installation. Just
unzip and run.
Managing proxies:
if changing your browser proxy manually doesn’t seem
very practical, you might want to take a look at
IE proxy
changer or
Advanced
Proxy Manager (for Internet Explorer)
or QuickProxy for Firefox.
Supported sites:
Imeem, Deezer, and Jiva.fm are documented; however,
the instructions in the program dialog itself read
"surf on your favorite HD radio site … the program
will do the rest". Not sure which other sites
Freezer will work with, but I did try it with
Last.FM and Pandora and it did NOT work; moreover it
does not work with non-encrypted sites that do not
use anti-leeching protection such as MixTurtle,
Songza, etc (I guess since the program wanted top
prove a point, there was no point to prove there.
Visit:
Freezer
