hajj_3 Posted May 21, 2006 Share Posted May 21, 2006 (edited) Fun with Sony BMG & MP3 metadata Finnish Eurovision entry for 2006, Lordi, has a small website at http://eurovision.lordi.org/ with some interesting info. The site is probably run by Sony BMG given the logos and the contact address at the bottom. Nice part is the "Video&Music" department. Direct link to audio player is http://eurovision.lordi.org/main.site?acti...pdate/view&id=8 or only for the SWF part of the player http://eurovision.lordi.org/flash/lordi_mediaplayer.swf First thing to impress me was the good quality of sound right from the beginning. Usually one can hear at best only low-quality 96/128kbps MP3 or WMA samples from official sources. I noticed that my browser of choice, Opera, created a real MP3 file to its cache directory when the first song started (192kbps MP3 file for "Hard Rock Hallelujah"). Nice, I thought, one could easily copy the few files to hard drive/MP3 player. Just for future reference, I wanted to dig up the complete URL of the downloaded song. Opera or Firefox didn't show this info easily, so I quickly checked the SWF file, no metadata in plaintext. A little googling revealed that there exists some kind of SWF extractors/decoders. I tried out "Action Script Viewer" demo from http://www.buraks.com/asv/1.html which could extract the SWF file to some extent (after several complaints, though). ASV demo spitted out SWF action script lines as below: stage.showmenu = false; mp3player = new Mp3Player (); mp3player.setVol(0); mp3player.setMaxVol(30); mp3player.setLooping(true); mp3player.setAutoplay(true); mp3player.setFadeIn(true); volslider.hslider._x = mp3player.getVol(); cb_songlist.addItem("Hard Rock Hallelujah", "/flash/hard_rock_hallelujah.mp3"); mp3player.addSong("/flash/hard_rock_hallelujah.mp3", 0); cb_songlist.addItem("Devil Is a Loser", "/flash/devil_is_a_loser.mp3"); mp3player.addSong("/flash/devil_is_a_loser.mp3", 0); cb_songlist.addItem("Would You Love a Monsterman", "/flash/would_you_love_a_monsterman.mp3"); mp3player.addSong("/flash/would_you_love_a_monsterman.mp3", 0); cb_songlist.addItem("Devil Is a Loser.mp3", "/flash/devil_is_a_loser.mp3"); mp3player.addSong("/flash/devil_is_a_loser.mp3", 0); cb_songlist.addItem("Blood Red Sandman", "/flash/blood_red_sandman.mp3"); mp3player.addSong("/flash/blood_red_sandman.mp3", 0); So, the URLs were not encrypted or obfuscated in any way. One could save the songs easily with e.g. browser or wget as below, using the complete URLs. wget http://eurovision.lordi.org/flash/hard_rock_hallelujah.mp3 wget http://eurovision.lordi.org/flash/devil_is_a_loser.mp3 wget http://eurovision.lordi.org/flash/would_yo..._monsterman.mp3 wget http://eurovision.lordi.org/flash/blood_red_sandman.mp3 The metadata for the songs are as below blood_red_sandman.mp3 [3 897 344 bytes, 128kbps MP3] GENRE = Other TRACKNUMBER = 03 TITLE = lordi-bloodredsandman devil_is_a_loser.mp3 [6 769 523 bytes, 256kbps MP3] TITLE = Devil Is A Loser ARTIST = Lordi ALBUM = The Monster Show COMMENT = www.GrupoeMusica.com TRACKNUMBER = 6 GENRE = Hard Rock hard_rock_hallelujah.mp3 [5 942 418 bytes, 192kbps MP3] TITLE = hard r hallelujah ALBUM = 3rd lopullinen masteri ARTIST = LODRI TRACKNUMBER = 7/12 ENCODERSETTINGS = Audiograbber 1.83.01, LAME dll 3.93, 192 Kbit/s, Stereo, High quality would_you_love_a_monsterman.mp3 [2 956 643 bytes, 128kbps MP3] TITLE = 06 GENRE = Blues Hmm. Nice, free MP3s, no DRM crap, unfortunately 2 MP3s out of 4 were of inferior quality. And they can't spell LORDI correctly, have to fix the tags for own use. And.. what's that.. the best-quality file "devil_is_a_loser.mp3" has comment field "www.GrupoeMusica.com". Let's check.. a P2P music site? [speechless] Yep. Spanish site offering direct ed2k-links to full songs, albums, etc. Shame on you, Sony BMG for downloading your artists' own music from P2P networks, hope you get sued!!! Edited May 21, 2006 by hajj_3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fedr0 Posted May 21, 2006 Share Posted May 21, 2006 Never heard of them. The fun thing to me is that "lordo" (the singular for "lordi") in Sicilian means "dirty". :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bdsams Veteran Posted May 21, 2006 Veteran Share Posted May 21, 2006 dont worry im sure they will sue the owner of the mp3 for not legally giving it to them and then return the favor by breaking his knee's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hajj_3 Posted May 21, 2006 Author Share Posted May 21, 2006 fedr0, lordi won the eurovision song contest tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Jorge Posted May 21, 2006 Share Posted May 21, 2006 Heh, that's pretty funny. :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exotoxic Posted May 21, 2006 Share Posted May 21, 2006 if its true it makes them look extremly stupid... get the info spread all around the internet fast!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gavin001 Posted May 21, 2006 Share Posted May 21, 2006 hahaha thats excellent! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lhnz Posted May 21, 2006 Share Posted May 21, 2006 Get this on digg. Now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
webeagle12 Posted May 21, 2006 Share Posted May 21, 2006 RIAA gonna have a fit over this :pinch: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jordan M. Posted May 21, 2006 Share Posted May 21, 2006 lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crimsonhead Posted May 21, 2006 Share Posted May 21, 2006 GENRE = Blues LMAO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldaccount1 Posted May 21, 2006 Share Posted May 21, 2006 RIAA gonna have a fit over this :pinch: indeed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djesteban Posted May 21, 2006 Share Posted May 21, 2006 Get this on digg. Now! indeed ...now!!!!! :o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maxious Posted May 21, 2006 Share Posted May 21, 2006 Domain ID:D86104707-LROR Domain Name:LORDI.ORG Created On:30-Apr-2002 07:14:44 UTC Last Updated On:25-Jul-2005 10:46:06 UTC Expiration Date:30-Apr-2007 07:14:44 UTC Sponsoring Registrar:Network Solutions LLC (R63-LROR) Status:CLIENT TRANSFER PROHIBITED Registrant ID:34738801-NSI Registrant Name:BMG Finland Oy Registrant Organization:BMG Finland Oy Registrant Street1:PL 173 Registrant Street2: Registrant Street3: Registrant City:HELSINKI Registrant State/Province: Registrant Postal Code:00210 Registrant Country:FI Registrant Phone:+1.358961320 Registrant Phone Ext.: Registrant FAX: Registrant FAX Ext.: Registrant Email:tommi.tuomainen@bmg.fi Digg link (to this thread): http://www.digg.com/music/Sony_BMG_hosting_MP3_from_P2P_Site Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AZKABAZ Posted May 21, 2006 Share Posted May 21, 2006 But if they own the rights to the music then they can illegally download and be legal can't they? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NienorGT Posted May 21, 2006 Share Posted May 21, 2006 But if they own the rights to the music then they can illegally download and be legal can't they? Yes, nobody can sue them since you can't sue for stealing to yourseft...Still.. it's amazing to see them use the P2P for themself when they are versus P2P... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maxious Posted May 21, 2006 Share Posted May 21, 2006 Breaking News: The Lordi Eurovision site just got pulled :D http://eurovision.lordi.org/ = Error 403 Forbidden Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beastage Posted May 21, 2006 Share Posted May 21, 2006 [burns] Excellent [/burns] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin-uk Veteran Posted May 21, 2006 Veteran Share Posted May 21, 2006 so they wernt actually offering you a download of the mp3, its not like they were expecting someone to go in and view the page source & decompile the flash file. ... :blink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Express Posted May 21, 2006 Share Posted May 21, 2006 Wow! Thats some amazing research. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kulstad Posted May 29, 2006 Share Posted May 29, 2006 wget http://eurovision.lordi.org/flash/hard_rock_hallelujah.mp3 wget http://eurovision.lordi.org/flash/devil_is_a_loser.mp3 wget http://eurovision.lordi.org/flash/would_yo..._monsterman.mp3 wget http://eurovision.lordi.org/flash/blood_red_sandman.mp3 Almost, but not quite. You need to use the source of the SWF media player (http://sitefactory.epte.fi) instead of the one you have (http://eurovision.lordi.org). wget http://sitefactory.epte.fi/flash/hard_rock_hallelujah.mp3 wget http://sitefactory.epte.fi/flash/devil_is_a_loser.mp3 wget http://sitefactory.epte.fi/flash/would_you..._monsterman.mp3 wget http://sitefactory.epte.fi/flash/blood_red_sandman.mp3 Just sayin' is all :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crimsonhead Posted May 29, 2006 Share Posted May 29, 2006 Wow! Thats some amazing research. This sounds like something I would do, that's why I like it so much. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xantheus Posted May 29, 2006 Share Posted May 29, 2006 lol @ sony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boo Berry Posted May 29, 2006 Share Posted May 29, 2006 Gotta love free MP3s... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaurav Posted May 29, 2006 Share Posted May 29, 2006 Yes, nobody can sue them since you can't sue for stealing to yourseft... Still.. it's amazing to see them use the P2P for themself when they are versus P2P... but using P2P, they're also sharing the file when downloading...and thats illegal. RIAA should feast upon this. :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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