My beloved Firefox has stopped working, and I’m temporarily using Google Chrome. The one thing I perhaps miss most about Firefox is the ability to easily download files through Video DownloadHelper, which is, sadly, not yet available as a Chrome extension.
Anyway, here’s how to download songs from Soundclick using Google Chrome:
1. Open the Soundclick song, and lay it in hi-fi, like this one, and start playing it.
2. Open a new tab, and type about:cache in the address bar.
3. At the top of your cache registry, you’ll see an MP3 file called something like this:
http://4708.nyc2.soundclick.com/jarry_lo/14/01/freemp3/eugeniakrivitskaia+toccataandfugueindminorjsbach.mp3
4. Copy the link.
5. If you right-click the link when copying it, you’ll get the prefix chrome://view-http-cache/ before the link. The link might also have a suffix, something like ?random=37. Just delete those if you see them, and you’ll have a working MP3 link.
6. Paste your link in a new tab, press enter, and choose Tools -> Save page as…. The download from Soundclick is usually pretty slow.
