Downloading MP3s from Seeqpod

As you may know from my previous post on the subject, I'm a huge fan of Seeqpod for finding and listening to music right now with minimal hassle. However as I blogged about at the time, there is a downside; there is no easy way to get the actual MP3 file to put on your iPod. In fact, typing in the URL manually doesn't always work either; the original file might have been moved or deleted since Seeqpod indexed.

Well those issues are over. I ran across this video over the weekend that describes how to pull the mp3 files out of your browser cache. The Firefox-specific instructions start around 4:10. But to summarize:

1. Go to Seeqpod
2. Find a song you want
3. Play it, making sure the download progress bar goes all the way to the end
4. Open a new Firefox tab and type about:cache in the location bar, then Enter
   
5. Navigate to the path shown for the Disk Cache Directory
   
6. Sort by size, ignore the _CACHE_00#_ files, and add .mp3 to the end of the biggest files.
7. Open them in your MP3 player to make sure you got it right. If so, rename the file.