fetchrmp.pl - Download entire albums from EMusic
I wrote the framework for this script because I'm an EMusic subscriber and I got tired of SHIFT+Clicking to download every MP3 file in an album to download the whole album. While EMusic offers an RMP file for whole-album downloads, it is only supported by the Zinf (formerly known as FreeAmp) media player. I wasn't impressed with Zinf/FreeAmp because it seemed flaky and insisted I use it to catalog all my music. It also seemed very difficult to tell Zinf where to save the album files I downloaded from EMusic.
I looked around for other utilities for parsing these RMP files and downloading all the songs. On Freshmeat.net I found RMP Download for Java (see links below) which seemed to work adequately, but after looking at the code and everything the author had to distribute, I was convinced there was a better solution for me.
fetchrmp.pl uses the XML::EasyOBJ and LWP::Simple CPAN modules so you will need to install those in order to use it. I don't believe there is any reason these modules will not work on Windows or MacOS platforms, so, as far as I know, fetchrmp.pl should work on those platforms. It has only been tested on Linux.
How it works
The .rmp file format is an XML format. Using the XML::EasyOBJ parser, fetchrmp.pl identifies the individual URLs for each track in the album (which is all described by the XML data). Then, LWP::Simple is used to fetch the files to the local system via HTTP.
Usage:
Usage: fetchrmp.pl --help or: fetchrmp.pl [--destdir DIR] --rmpfile FILE
Download it!
Here it is:
- fetchrmp.pl - A whopping 1650 bytes!
Other RMP downloaders
It's possible (perhaps even likely) my Perl script isn't right for you. Check out some of these other options:
- emusicAlbumDownload - Shareware for MacOS
- RMP Download for Java - Console application written in Java. Works good.
- TafkaR - for MacOS
Apparently, the Windows version of RealPlayer also understands the .rmp file format, but I haven't confirmed this yet.
