With the growing popularity of online music streaming sites it’s not surprising that tools will emerge to download the tunes you listen to. Just look at YouTube and how many tools there are to download the videos to your own computer.
Free Music Zilla is an app that will monitor the content passing through your browser. If it sees that you’re listening to a song from Imeem, Last.fm, Pandora, MySpace, iJigg, MOG, or any other music service it will give you the opportunity to download the songs. The best part is that it’s pretty simple with how it works.
Once you download, install, and run Free Music Zilla it will sit in your System Tray waiting for you to listen to music on the Internet. Once it detects a song being played it will popup in the interface. Downloading it is as simple as checking the box next to the song, and hitting the download button. Alternatively you can right-click on a single song and select the download option.
As with most programs, this does have a few downsides:
- The “Leech timeout” is a timer set by the website your listening to, and once the timer gets down to zero you won’t be able to download the song.
- You never know which file corresponds to which song. The filenames are just numbers that make identifying the song rather difficult. Of course you can rename them just as you would rename any file, but if you’re doing this with several files the process would get rather tedious.
- The program is limited to downloading 10 songs per day.
- The quality of the songs vary, but the ones I tested it out on seem to have a bitrate of 128kbps. That’s not terrible, but depending on where you’re listening to the song you might be able to notice the sub-par quality.
Oh, and we can’t forget to warn you about downloading material illegally with this app. Ummm, hmmmm. I know, if you download illegal songs the RIAA will come over to your house and walk around your yard screaming “for the love of God, I have a Rolls Royce to pay for!” 
What do you use to download songs from your favorite sites?
Free Music Zilla [via Download Squad & TechCrunch]
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That seems awesome…gonna check it out!
Looks intersting, I use Zamzar(spelled right?) and set it to rip a mp3
I used to use Ruckus, then converted it using a program by a person named viodentia (or divinetao)called FairUse. After a Windows Update to Windows Media, it all stopped, but 6 GB worth of mp3s ain’t so bad.
Then I used to use a social networking site called Multiply. Then they removed the search in “music” and blocked Google searches on “music” in their site. There is a way though to search, but it became too tedious. This seems interesting, I’m giving it a go right now. 
Thanks Ryan. 
Err, I use FrostWire to get my music…no limits, no speed limits…works great.
Any program that spits in the RIAA’s face is a good one.
Okay, so far so good. I think? The major problems I’m having is with Super… For some reason, I can’t get it to work properly everytime…
Yeah, but that is a P2P program, not my thing. I’ve had my share of viruses and BSODs and why-the-heck-does-my-PC-keep-on-restarting-when-I’m-connected-to-the-net.
But you download from YouTube only? And the other video sites, right?
Zamzar is an incredible service, but as arjay pointed out this is really only used for videos.
Amen to that!
Nice tool thanks
Just FYI: downloading songs is not illegal in every country, here you can download music and movies from anywhere legally (for your own use only).
IDM’s Grab++ can do it also
Out of curiosity where is “here”? Just trying to figure out where to move to.
Haha, it’s the Netherlands, but there are a lot of countries in Europe where you can download legally. Mind you, for bittorrent you have to upload to download, so it’s not so legal. Your suggested program however, together with downloading from e.g. irc, newsgroups and websites, is allowed.
I learn something new everyday. Thanks for clarifying how that works there.
“The quality of the songs vary, but the ones I tested it out on seem to have a bitrate of 128kbps. That’s not terrible, but depending on where you’re listening to the song you might be able to notice the sub-par quality.”
Don’t give Free Music Zilla a bad rap for that–it merely rips the audio stream that it finds (i.e. copies it bit for bit)–if the original mp3 or flv file streamed to you is 128kbps, that’s what you get! Free Music Zilla does no transcoding. I’ve found a few sites that stream a few selected songs at 192kbps and that’s great quality.
We weren’t saying that it was bad, we were just informing our readers of what to expect. That’s what our reviews are all about.
I used to use this Freemusiczilla but I gave up using it cause I didn’t like the fact that you always have to open the site you want to get a song from. I tried this program, Videoraptor, cause I find it useful,it finds music for you form internet, downloads, even converts files, burns Cds. You can have a look here: http://audials.com/en/audials_.....index.html
Is this Videoraptor really legal? There are many other softwares how aren’t legal and they say they are
I think you’re commenting on the wrong article, but yes Videoraptor is legal. No one is forcing you to use it to download illegal content, and it can be used to download legal music. It’s almost like how BitTorrent clients are legal, but what they could be used to acquire may not be.
Sorry to bother, Ryan, but as I said, ‘there are many other softwares how aren’t legal and they say they are’ and I was curious to find this out about this tool, cause I can say it is pretty interesting.
You definitely weren’t bothering me. We love helping people in our community!