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    Californication Theme and how to get the mp3

    September 9th, 2007

    Californication is a new series on Showtime and I quickly got addicted to it, it’s so messed up. It should do fine as an Entourage replacement now that the season is over. I really like the theme, it was composed by Tree Adams. He’s done a lot of other great music by the way.

    I couldn’t find the mp3 anywhere through Google, but it turns out that it’s on the composer’s website. Go to this link: http://www.treeadams.com/television.htm and click on play music.

    Now, I’m not going to post the mp3, but I’m going to show you how to get it. The music player is in flash… people often publish such players because they want you to hear the music without being able to get the MP3. Luckily smart people can get around that, it’s all a matter of finding out what data flash is requesting.

    1. Install the livehttpheaders extension for firefox here: http://livehttpheaders.mozdev.org/
    2. Once your browser has restarted, go to http://www.treeadams.com/television.htm and open the “Play Music” tab
    3. Click on Tools>Live HTTP Headers
    4. Click on the Generator tab, and check the box next to “request”
    5. On the music player, click on the Californication theme
    6. You should see the mp3 show up immediately on the Live HTTP Headers window. You might have to look through the list, but the file extension is .mp3
    7. Navigate to the mp3 location and hit File>Save As. You have your mp3.

    What the liveHTTPHeaders extension does is show you the browser’s http requests. I use it a lot in web development work to make sure that Flash is requesting data correctly. This tip will always be handy when you come across a site that obscures media through flash. Now, for anyone who’s thinking about making a music player and wants a little security, just stick the audio inside a swf file. No one wants those.

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