EDIT: The site is temporarily (or not) down atm. this post thus remains irrelevant until they are back online (if ever) and if they haven’t changed anything to the site (which i doubt though.. damn, they were quick on that one :/ …)

Have you heard about Musiquey?
If not, well, this site’s concept is quite similar to Skreemr. You can search for a song / artist then listen to the song, really cool

But hey, aren’t there download links for the songs on that screenshot?!

Well actually that’s almost right, except that they do not yet “officially” allow people to download songs.

This however does not change the fact that

Viewable media = downloadable media

furthermore, with a little tweaking you can even embed a song to your blog post / web page

well ready for the double tutorial? then ikuzo dattebayo!

I will show you how to:
(1) Embed a song from Musiquey on your blog / site
(2) Downloading songs from musiquey

Embedding a song on your webpage

Well this one is very simple in fact. Firstly you need to find the song or artist you want on the site.
For this tuto i will search for the band Colour of fire* as shown in the screenshot above

When you find the song you want to embed, click on “listen”. a window containing a flash player should pop up and you can listen to your song

Now you need the source of this page. just right click in the window (not on the image or flash player) and then on “view source” (or a similar option if not available)

you should obtain something like this:

<center><img src=”images/oplayer.jpg”>
<script language=”JavaScript” src=”audio-player.js
“></script>
<object type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” data=”player.swf
” id=”audioplayer1″ height=”24″ width=”290″>
<param name=”movie” value=”
player.swf“>
<param name=”FlashVars” value=”playerID=1&soundFile=http://www.esnips.com/nsdoc/ee7a9b1c-aa06- 497e-993e-bee60fe837b9/ts_id/1210673168753/ns_flash/file1.mp3″>
<param name=”quality” value=”high”>
<param name=”menu” value=”false”>
<param name=”wmode” value=”transparent”>
</object></center>

well the trick to embedding this particular player with the song is to modify this code in order to replace the relative links to the script and player (i underlined those above) by direct links. for instance,

<script language=”JavaScript” src=”audio-player.js”></script>

should become

<script language=”JavaScript” src=”http://musiquey.com/audio-player.js”></script>

Also, the first img tag can be removed

after editing all the relative links to point to musiquey.com, your source should look like the following:

<script language=”JavaScript” src=“http://musiquey.com/audio-player.js”></script>
<object type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” data=”http://musiquey.com/player.swf” id=”audioplayer1″ height=”24″ width=”290″>
<param name=”movie” value=“http://musiquey.com/player.swf”>
<param name=”FlashVars” value=”playerID=1&soundFile=http://www.esnips.com/nsdoc/ee7a9b1c-aa06- 497e-993e-bee60fe837b9/ts_id/1210673168753/ns_flash/file1.mp3″>
<param name=”quality” value=”high”>
<param name=”menu” value=”false”>
<param name=”wmode” value=”transparent”>
</object>

(Again the links that have been modified are underlined here.)

And here goes with this piece of code you can embed any song from musiquey in here now we can get to the second part of the tuto, that is

Downloading from musiquey

Here it gets really easy

Similarly to the above procedures for embedding the player, when you find the song you want to download, click on “listen”. a window containing a flash player should pop up and you can listen to your song

Now you need the source of this page. just right click in the window (not on the image or flash player) and then on “view source” (or a similar option if not available)

you should obtain something like this:

<center><img src=”images/oplayer.jpg”>
<script language=”JavaScript” src=”audio-player.js
“></script>
<object type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” data=”player.swf
” id=”audioplayer1″ height=”24″ width=”290″>
<param name=”movie” value=”
player.swf“>
<param name=”FlashVars” value=”playerID=1&soundFile=http://www.esnips.com/nsdoc/ee7a9b1c-aa06- 497e-993e-bee60fe837b9/ts_id/1210673168753/ns_flash/file1.mp3“>
<param name=”quality” value=”high”>
<param name=”menu” value=”false”>
<param name=”wmode” value=”transparent”>
</object></center>

Notice the url i underlined up there? notice how it points directly to a mp3 file? what could that mp3 file be? now you should be able to save this file by pointing your browser to that address. you should also be able to do it via a download manager, although i haven’t tested it personally

Thats it for this tutorial enjoy xD

And oh btw, musical discovery to end this post,

Colour of fire, Just too bad they are so unknown and that band split up…
(But i bought their (very rare) album and EP from japan \o/ )