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Originally Posted by cj_abi
I was thinking audio from say (for example) youtube or dailymotion and those sites that allow you to hear a sound but not download....
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https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4318
Just tested, & works for both youtube & dailymotion.
There's also this 1:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2584
It used to work for youtube, but doesn't any more, but you may find it useful for other sites, & it may do youtube again the next time it gets updated.
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Originally Posted by cj_abi
(seriously, it's sometimes not worth the hassle of downloading/ripping a file from these sites where I may only need a sample of a second long....)
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If it's a big file, 10+ minutes long, then I can see your point, but otherwise it doesn't take long if you have a half-decent computer.
If I wanted to do it, I'd use
SUPER to save out just the audio from the .flv, then
Audacity to get just the bit I wanted.
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Originally Posted by cj_abi
I'm also a fan of online text to speech engines - some of which do not allow you to download what you want the engine to speak!
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It depends on how it sends the audio data to your PC. If it uses a streamed file [possible, but unlikely with such a short file], then that can be a bit more tricky, but usually it just sends the file but doesn't allow you to save it.
1 drawback of Firefox is that its filenames in the cache folder are meaningless to the human observer. Sometimes you can get around this by dragging a link to the file from Firefox to an associated program & then save from there.
With IE/Maxthon it's a bit simpler. You can either search the temporary internet files for files with the right extension [if you're not sure, sometimes a look at the page's source code can provide the answer], or alternatively search the temporary internet files for all files, then sort according to date & look for 1 that's got the right time & a suitable file size &/or extension.