How may I download Flash(?) audio

ChrisM666

ChrisM666

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I am trying to download a sound file from a site that seems to have a Flash Player interface. This disallows the usual "Save link as", etc. options so I am left with finding a Mac-related OpenSource offering. It was suggested that VLC or Mplayer would do this stream ripping. It might help to know that the page source includes these (and more) lines:
Code: 
<a name="dXXXXn"></a>
<div style="float:left;margin-top:8px;margin-right:20px;margin-bottom:20px">
<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,47,0" width="350" height="140" id="wimpy">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
<param name="movie" value="http://XXXX.org/mp3s/wimpy.swf?wimpyApp=http://XXXX.org/mp3s/wimpy.php&amp;wimpyskin=http://XXXX.org/mp3s/skins/skin_plain.xml&amp;displayDownloadButton=yes&amp;forceDownload=no&amp;startPlayingOnload=no&amp;playlist=http://XXXX.org/mp3s/FXXXXe.mp3|http://XXXX.org/mp3s/DXXXXng.mp3" />
<param name="loop" value="false" />
<param name="menu" value="false" />
...

To save myself a load of fruitless fiddling I am hoping someone can OK this or suggest a better path. Before the Net Police start slavering about copyright infringement, they should know that I am assured that the files are PD although still difficult to get to.

What is the best way to do this? Or should I go to Windows?
 
Yes, Nixgeek, that is EXACTLY what I wanted! If you feel like a copy of the Padmasambhava mantra, I'll send it in gratitude!
 
I recently discovered that if you are using Safari (don't know about the other web browsers) and click on:

Window ~> Activity​

... and search through the list for the file extension (mp3, mpeg etc) you can download it to your desktop if you press Option and double-click the file. If you can't see the extension, just look for a 3 or 4 MB file and that'll usually be the one that you want.
 
Ta. I could use it but don't... I did and I got the page name and '29 items'. Period.

Not stumped as I have Firefox ands its (above) extension!
 
Yeah, most of those 'items' will only be xx bytes or xx kilobytes files but the movie or mp3 you want will be several megabytes in size.
 
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