How To Download Songs From Raag.fm

Raag.fm is one of the most popular online songs streaming website.It has some very rare songs and latest arrivals especially Punjabi songs that are sometimes not available on other websites.So, In this post I will tell you the trick on How you can Download Songs from raag.fm
This trick is not limited only for raag.fm but it can be used for most of the online streaming websites.Before I give you the whole trick let me explain the basic concept of how online streaming works so that you can know where this trick will work and on which websites it wont work.
How Online Streaming of Songs Work?
The songs that are streamed are stored on the server of the websites.Whenever you play a song usually a Flash/javascript player opens so that you cannot get the direct links of the song on the server.But you may have noticed that if you play the complete songs once it will can be played again (if you haven’t closed the music player) even if you disconnect your Internet connection.This is because the song is already stored in the cache of the web Browser.
Trick to Locate The Cache Folder
If you are able to locate the cache of the song which has been already played in the music player then it means that you have downloaded the song.It is quite easy to locate the cache folder in google chrome so I recommend you that you you should use google chrome for this trick.
Make Sure that you have enabled to View hidden Files and Folders.

• The cache folder for Google Chrome in Windows 7 can be located at

C:\Users\USER_NAME\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\UserData\Default\Cache
C, being the system root. If you are not sure about the system root you can replace C: with %systemroot%.
Also donot forget to replace USER_NAME to your windows username

• The cache folder for Google Chrome in Windows Xp can be located at

C:\Documents and Settings\USER_NAME\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome
Once you go to the cache folder you will probably see hundreds of files.
Trick to Find Song In cache folder
As you will probably see hundreds of files with random names and no extensions it can be quite difficult to locate the song.But you will see that most of the files will have very small size like less then 500 kb.So sort the files according to their size.
As songs have usually size of 3 mb to 8 mb you can easily recognize you song.Play the file with Vlc player.If this is song you were looking for then copy it and paste it at your desired location by renaming the song with the extension of .MP3 (Make sure you have unchecked hide files files extension in folder options in control Panel)
Websites On which this Trick Will not Work
There are some famous websites like in.com and probably others which do not save any cache file on your browser.So this trick will not work on these type of website.To test whether this trick will work or not the website simply play the complete song replay it and disconnect the Internet in between if the songs plays continuously the this trick will work else Find Another Website
Note:-Cache of the song will be stored on when you have played the complete song.So,Do Not panic if the cache doesn’t appear.Wait for the song to be completed.

How to Record Online Internet Radio Stations On Your PC

With a lot of radio stations streaming their broadcasts over the Internet, I'm finding myself listening to the radio on my PC more often. Re-discovering radio on the Internet offers many choices and has the advantage of being free. Unlike traditional radio, if you use a Home Theater system or Hi-FI stereo, your limited to the broadcast range in your area. With Internet radio, you have access to stations world-wide. With this type of access, recording Internet radio stations on your PC will allow you to never miss your favorite show.


So how do you record? With a software called Radio2MP3

Radio2MP3 is a streaming audio recorder, that lets you record music from online radio stations or music subscription services to your PC. Similar to VCR or DVR's, a nice one touch recording feature will capture MP3 files from any streaming source and Podcasts, which then can be converted to any format such as WMA, MP3, WAV, OGG.

How to play *.SWF file in Ubuntu

Gnash SWF player for Ubuntu 10.04
SWF(Shock Wave Flash) file format is widely used for displaying animation or vector graphics,with different degrees of interactivity and functions.Adobe products such as Flash,Flex Builder and Open source Ming Library is used to generate SWF files.If you are not able to play swf file on Ubuntu 10.04 then here is an simple solution of that.Gnash SWF player is recommended for playing SWF files on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx.

Installing SWF player on Ubuntu 10.04

1.Open Ubuntu Software Center(Applications->Ubuntu Software Center) or SPM(Synaptic Package Manager) from System->Administration->Synaptic Package Manager.
 
2.Search for Gnash and click on Install(in USC) OR mark for installation,then apply to install gnash(In SPM).
 
3.Installation,followed by downloading process will complete within few minutes…….
 
4.That’s all…Now Open the SWF files with GNASH SWF player to play……

How to Install Microsoft Windows fonts on Ubuntu

Windows True Type Fonts for Ubuntu 10.04

Some Windows Fonts like Arial,Times New Roman,Verdana are very good for websites and business documents.So if you want to install those True Type Fonts(TTF) on Ubuntu 10.04 then you can do it in two ways.One most simple method is to Use Synaptic Package Manager and second is to directly copy it from microsoft windows.Both the methods are described below..choose whatever you feel easy.

Using Synaptic Package Manager

1. Open Synaptic Package Manager from System->Administration->SPM(Enter your login password for authorization).
2. Type “ttf mscorefonts” in quick search bar(Located at top right corner).
3. Then mark the box in the row which is meant for Microsoft fonts installer.
4. Now,click on Apply to begin download and then installation will be automatically started within few moments(Just wait for installation to complete).
5. That’s all..Now you are ready to use the Microsoft windows fonts.

Copy windows True Type fonts(TTF) directly from windows computer to Ubuntu 10.04

You can also copy your favorite Microsoft windows fonts(TTF) directly from a windows computer(It will be very simple if you are running windows and Ubuntu in dual boot otherwise copy ttf fonts from your friends computer,who uses microsoft windows).

To Copy TTF fonts,Go to the drive where the windows is installed then go to windows->Fonts and select all the TTF fonts you want to install on Ubuntu and Copy it to Ubuntu’s Home in a new Folder “Fonts“.Then Rename the folder “Fonts” to “.Fonts” to hide the folder.That’s ALL..Restart the application e.g GIMP then the new windows TTF fonts() will be available for use.

CD-DVD Burning Application for Ubuntu

Tags: Ubuntu, Mutimedia, CD, DVD, Burning, Applicaiton, Install.

Ubuntu 10.04 and higher comes with a default CD and DVD burning application – Brasero,which is best for creating and copying CDs and DVDs.If it is not installed then you can install it from Ubuntu Software Center or Synaptic Package Manager.

Brasero

Brasero is an open source application and available free;It is very simple to use with nice GUI.It can be used to create audio,video or data CDs and DVDs.It has a lot of features and one important point is that you can increase its features and functionalities by using plugins such as support for encrypted DVDs and CDs can be added by installing libdvdcss2.

How to Play ARF file on Ubuntu

Tags: Ubuntu, Multimedia, Play, ARF, Howto, How to.


Play ARF file by Converting them to mp4
ARF i.e Advanced Recording Format is a format recorded by NBR(Network Based Recording).For Ubuntu or other Linux versions currently no player is available which can play .arf files i.e WebEx(Player used to play and convert arf and wrf formats) is not supported on Linux based system or Ubuntu 10.04.That’s why to play arf file only one option is available and that is to convert the arf format to mp4 or swf or other simple formats.So you can use a converter tool “NBR2MP4″ to generate mp4(That we can play Using VLC player) file from arf.

Playing ARF format by converting them to mp4 : Ubuntu 10.04 ,Linux based systems

How to install Transmageddon - Video Converter for Ubuntu

Tags: Video, Multimedia, Ubuntu, Converter, Howto, How to, Install.

We uses a lot video file formats in our daily life, but probably with different devices (e.g ipod, PC, iPhone..), so the devices need the input files in specific formats (or in their native file formats), that’s where the video converters are required. Video Converter simply convert a video file format in to another video file format. so it acts like a format conversion tool.

Collection of Best Free Multimedia Softwares

Collection of Best Free Multimedia Softwares

There are some popular tools for you to open files that you have downloaded. They will be introduced here to make it is easier to enjoy wonderful movies and they all are FREE. I will not post any Non-Free Software here.

Table of Content:

I. AUDIO/VIDEO PLAYERS
   1. VLC - VideoLAN Player
   2. Download VLC Skins
   3. KMPlayer
II. FILE SPLITTER/JOINER
   1. HJSPLIT
   2. FFSJ
III. COMPRESS/DECOMPRESS FILES
   1. 7-ZIP
   2. IZARC

I. AUDIO/VIDEO PLAYERS

1. VLC - VideoLAN Player
VLC is one of the most popular multimedia player. It can play most of Audio/Video formats: ASF / WMV / WMA/MPEG (ES,PS,TS,PVA,MP3)/OGG / OGM / Annodex/MP4 / MOV / 3GP/Raw Audio: DTS, AAC, AC3/A52/FLV (Flash), ... and much more. VLC player has Windows, Linux, MacOS, Free/Open/Net BSD, Solaris, iOS, OS/2 versions.
The last thing ofcourse is: VLC is totally free.

Download latest version of VLC:

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Download VLC skins:
To make VLC a beautiful player you could use VLC Skins Package that included a lot of skins for you. Some screenshots for you:

Download all VLC Skins here:

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How to use these skins? 
Put the downloaded VLT files in the following folder:

• On Windows: the skins folder in the VLC installation directory (e.g. C:\Program Files\VLC\skins)
• On Linux/Unix: ~/.local/share/vlc/skins2

Then open your VLC settings and change your interface from native to skins. You can choose your desired skin already there or change it when you are in the skins mode by rightclicking somewhere on the skin and going to Interface>Choose Skin. VLC needs to be restarted to change to skins mode.

3. KMPlayer
Reviewed by: Seth Rosenblatt - CNET editors

Despite lacking a Help file, KMPlayer is one of the most powerful freeware video players we've seen. It includes a vast array of video- and audio-capturing options, as well as skins, a plethora of playback controls and tweaks, and broad DVD support.
Screenshots:

Details:

Price: Free
Operating system: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/Vista/NT

Download KMPlayer here:

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II. FILE SPLITTER/JOINER

These tools are used for open .001, .002, .003, __a, __b, ... files.
1. HJSPLIT
HJSplit is a popular freeware program to split and recombine files. The program is available on Windows, Linux and a variety of other platforms.
Why should one want to split and recombine files? For instance, think of a file of 50 Mb, and try to send it to a friend, post it in a newsgroup or upload it to a Website or FTP server. It is usually easier to send/receive, upload/download smaller parts than handle the entire file in one go.

Screenshots:

Download HJSplit for ALL platforms here:

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2. FFSJ - The Fastest File Splitter and Joiner
FFSJ consists of two main programs: File Splitter and File Joiner. File Splitter enables you to split a large file into small chunks which are easy to be sent and stored, while File Joiner allows you to join these split parts together so that the original file is restored.

Screenshots:

Download FFSJ Complete Version here:

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III. COMPRESS/DECOMPRESS FILES

WinRaR or WinZip may be the first thing in your mind when you read the title. But as I said at the beginning, I will not post any NON-FREE software here. WinRAR and WinZip are NOT free. So I will introduce some other programs to do these tasks.

1. 7-ZIP
High compression ratio in 7z format with LZMA and LZMA2 compression
Supported formats:

• Packing / unpacking: 7z, XZ, BZIP2, GZIP, TAR, ZIP and WIM
• Unpacking only: ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, CramFS, DEB, DMG, FAT, HFS, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MBR, MSI, NSIS, NTFS, RAR, RPM, SquashFS, UDF, VHD, WIM, XAR and Z.

For ZIP and GZIP formats, 7-Zip provides a compression ratio that is 2-10 % better than the ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip7-Zip works in Windows 7 / Vista / XP / 2008 / 2003 / 2000 / NT / ME / 98. There is a port of the command line version to Linux/Unix.

Download 7-Zip Complete Version here:

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2. IZARC
IZArc is the best freeware archive utility supporting many archive formats like: 7-ZIP, A, ACE, ARC, ARJ, B64, BH, BIN, BZ2, BZA, C2D, CAB, CDI, CPIO, DEB, ENC, GCA, GZ, GZA, HA, IMG, ISO, JAR, LHA, LIB, LZH, MDF, MBF, MIM, NRG, PAK, PDI, PK3, RAR, RPM, TAR, TAZ, TBZ, TGZ, TZ, UUE, WAR, XXE, YZ1, Z, ZIP, ZOO. With a modern easy-to-use interface, IZArc provides support for most compressed and encoded files, as well as access to many powerful features and tools. It allows you to drag and drop files from and to Windows Explorer, create and extract archives directly in Windows Explorer, create multiple archives spanning disks, creating self-extracting archives, repair damaged zip archives, converting from one archive type to another, view and write comments and many more. IZArc has also build-in multilanguage support.
With IZArc you can open CD image files like ISO, BIN, CDI and NRG. It is also possible to convert such files from one type to another (BIN to ISO, NRG to ISO). 
System Requirements:
Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/7

Download IZARC Complete Version here:

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