I just got my Scion xA a few days ago and while poking around I saw that I had missed out on all the Scion Sampler CDs. I noticed they play some of them in the "Boombox" on the Scion site and I did some HTTP traffic snooping and figured out where all the MP3s are that they stream for the site.

Is anyone interested in knowing how to easily download all the MP3s they have online? I grabbed them all and it was about 120 of them. Lots of good Hip-Hop/Rap stuff. If there's interest, I'll post a quick HOWTO.

I got some interest pretty quick, so here goes:


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HOWTO grab the mp3s from the scion.com site:
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Tools needed:
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1) Firefox web browser
2) DownThemAll plugin for Firefox
3) Linkification plugin for Firefox
4) the scionmp3s.txt file contained in this zipfile

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Steps
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1) unzip the scionmp3s.zip file you donwloaded in #4 above and you will see a file called scionmp3s.txt. Put that on your computer somewhere.

2) Drag that file from your computer into Firefox (or open the file with Firefox). With Linkification turned on (Ctrl-Shift-L), all the links will be active (clickable) links. If they are not clickable, you either don't have the Linkification plugin installed or it's not turned on

3) Now, right click on the page and choose DownThemAll. On the dialog that comes up, choose a destination directory (like c:\downloads\mp3s\scion) and in the "Additional Filters" section put *.tmp. Now click START and they will start downloading. This will take a little while depending on how fast your conenction is. It's about 250 MB of mp3s.

4) When it finishes downloading, you need to rename the .tmp files to .mp3. You could do this by hand, but it's much easier to do it with one simple DOS command. Open a command prompt (DOS prompt) in the directory you downloaded the files to (c:\downloads\mp3) and issue this single command to rename them all at once:
ren *.tmp *.mp3

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Now you have a bunch of MP3s. Most of them have id3 tags you can use to sort/rename them with some external MP3 tool (I use The Godfather - http://users.forthnet.gr/the/jtclipper/ , but any will work).

If you're curious how I did this, how I figured it out, or how to do something similar on other sites (and it works on lots of sites), read the article I wrote a while back entitled How to Find And Download Hidden Music From Websites

ENJOY! Hopefully that isn't too difficult to do for everyone. Feel free to ask questions and I'll help you out.

Brian

 

I was thinking about this the other day and how I would've liked to have all the Scion CD sampler songs on my iPod... not so much because all the songs thyey have are great but I like having Scion stuff, lol.

Im interested.

 

So how do you do it?

 

haha, nice find. I missed out on the CD sampler too but listened to my friend's CD that he got. It's not the best music I've heard but its ok. I'll download the mp3s for fun tho. Props for digging through the html

 

FWIW, I did this as per the instructions and it worked great. Not exactly my taste of music, but fun process.

G

 

I did it although the tool didnt rename all the files correctly... oh well thanks for the know-how.

 

I always thought each of their CD's had a couple of decent songs on it, don't know that I would want them all though.

Either way that's pretty cool. Can't really say anything is illegal, they were from free givaways anyway.

 

Thanks for the instructions... I D/L'd them all last night except a few error'd out on me. Dunno if I'll like many of them but I'll give any music a try once.

 

i should really listen to that cd.. its been sitting in my car since the day i got my tc .

 

Thanks!

 

Nice... thanks!

And congrats on getting a soon-to-be-extinct xA! One thing though... the very worst vogon poetry is extremely accurate... so I'd recommend fixing your description of the car's color - it's Indigo Ink Pearl... like mine!

 

how do you find the urls on the new flash boombox on their site. no luck

 

btw: big fning ups on this post!! I used to work for acura / scion in gainesville, fl. they never had them. i only saw them in the major metro areas at the shows. i can't believe how many they came out /w & the great djs they got on their. good incentives /w the mix contests. I def. would like to get the originals. pb wolf, jazzy jeff, beat junkies, come on!

 

I tried the txt file and it started to download a tmp file. I hate to install stuff on my pc for fear of it screwing up something else, do you have these songs anywhere to down load?

 

Oh. I use comcast too and they track that stuff. Thanks for the warning.

 

where the hell is your dealer? Like I said, I even worked for them. They hardly had the mixes, let alone the old school ones.

 

I used 'free download manager'.

File | Import list of downloads | scionmp3s.txt

Thanks!

 

I got the albums I wanted by luck asking a Scion sales rep if he happened to have any. He told me to leave a number to call back and later on in the day gave me the good news. He found Sampler 7 and 8(the samplers I asked for) laying in his desk. This is the same rep who I bought my tC from months later. It's kinda hit or miss finding the samplers at the local dealership. All I wanted was 7 and 8 and am happy with those and are my favorites of the collection.

 

I just e-mailed scion, and they sent me one of each cd they had in stock - only 9 of them, but still... and free!