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by matthewcieplak 5459 days ago
If you find a "hack" like this on a music website, keep it to your self. If you post about it, they'll try to fix it or obscure it but who knows if some guy at soundcloud will revoke their api key first or some major label dick will initiate legal proceedings forthwith. And then you've just kicked your favorite music site in the nuts, congratulations.

By the way, if you can stream it, you can download it, on any service. One-time use streaming keys are no defense against right clicking. It's just a matter of how much patience you have to expose the underlying URL.

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Can you download the stream from Grooveshark? DRMed flash.
Sure, like he said with enough patience you can. For instance if could write a custom audio driver in linux that dumps the bits to a file and then encode that.
I have never actually tried to download the songs on grooveshark, I'm sure its possible though.
Let me know if you find out. I think it's much harder than the process outlined in the post.
yeah grooveshark is a tad more complicated. I can assure you, we will figure something out by the end of today that will close this issue.

looks to me like grooveshark is giving a stream.

good to hear.
No problem using GrooveWalrus. ;)