Pickl Vision

If you are like me then you know how annoying it can be to get music. Poor university student, whose university is so polish that they turnover names of anyone the RIAA requests. As bad as it sounds ill stick to comcast when it comes to breaking the law. At least with them I know that they won’t give my identity out without first getting a subpoena from the court.(did i use the right word ryan?)

Anyway, If you are like me then you don’t care so much about getting caught, but you dont want to install that bullshit kazaa, limewire, bearshare, etc, and your school doesn’t have an established DC++ server or some kind of intranet thats got some decent content on it. Downloading torrents are nice, but sometimes there aren’t any seeders, or you don’t want the whole album or in some cases discography. So what should you do if you just want that one song.

I came across www.imeem.com while i was trying to find one very odd and obscure techno track. It seemed impossible until I found it on this site. However i wanted to download it and listen to it where ever. Like any logical person I turned to google. What I found was a sweet program called Free Music Zilla.

It basically downloads the song for you while its playing on imeem.com, or any site that streams .flv files. Think myspace, youtube, last.fm etc. Its great however the only problem is that once you get the file it is in .flv format and that sure as shit isn’t going to play in itunes. Meet FFMPEG.

FFMPEG is a sweet little tiny program that will open in DOS, and then you can convert your .flv file into pretty much w/e format you want. Now I’m sure many of you will be scared of what you are about to witness but I am going to hold your hand and walk you through it step by step so that any retard that can roll his face across the keyboard will be able to have free music again.

The first step is going to be of course downloading and installing Free Music Zilla. Once that and FFMPEG are installed you are ready to start.

1. First go to IMEEM and find a song that you want to download. Make sure the song is still playing in the background, and open up Free Music Zilla. It should look something like this.
2. Next you want to convert the file that you downloaded. It is going to have a god awful long name so name it something stupidly short. I’ll name it USHER.FLV. The file will be located in C:\Downloads folder. There is a button in Free Music Zilla to open that folder.
3. This is the hardest step of the tutorial. You are going to have to unzip/unrar FFMPEG to your C:\Documents and Settings\YOURNAME folder. You do this because in order to use the converter you have to open a command prompt.
4. Free Music Zilla will place the song you downloaded into the C:\Downloads folder. Make sure you move the song from this folder to your C:\Documents and Settings\YOURNAME folder.
5. Next go to START > RUN > and type “CMD” into the box. That dreadful black screen will come up with a blinking bar. Type in FFMPEG -i usher.flv -ab 128kb usher.mp3. What it is going to do is take the current file, “Usher.flv” thats the one that you downloaded with Free Music ZIlla, and it will convert it into .mp3 format so that it is compatible with iTunes. “Usher.mp3″ will be the new file that is output, and it will be 128kb. Double click it or add it to iTunes your favorite way and your set!