When streaming a song, in what folder does the song get saved?

google-chrome streaming browser-cache audio-streaming temporary-files

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Solution 1

You can find the folder on:

C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Media Cache

sort by data, you find segment of the mp3 file of 1024 byte. When you recognize which segments compose your song, open a cmd line DOS session and then copy them in binary mode:

copy /b f_00015b+f_00015c+f_00015d+f_00015e Mika - Stardust.mp3

It works. Just tried by myself.

Solution 2

AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Cache

Sort by date time and probably the first file with reasonably larger size (3MB least) is your media, rename the file and append .mp3

EDIT : (Drag and drop the files into VLC player in case if you cant figure out what you're looking for)

There you go!

Solution 3

Try NirSoft's ChromeCacheView which will display the contents of Chrome's cache folder:

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Im2be

Updated on September 18, 2022

Comments

Im2be almost 2 years

When streaming a song, the song is downloaded and placed into a temporary folder on the computer, that much I know. However, while streaming the media file – mostly from Pandora – I have been searching for the song in the cache folder of Chrome and the temporary internet folders but have not found it at all.

Does anyone know where songs, streamed using Google Chrome, are temporarily downloaded to?

Note: I am well aware that permanently downloading a song that you are streaming is illegal, and I am NOT trying to do this. This question is purely for educational reasons.
- Admin almost 11 years
  
  It might not be saved at all.
- Admin almost 11 years
  
  Well, if i check the developers console on the "Network" tab, I can see the .m4a file is being downloaded. I just need to know where.
- Admin over 10 years
  
  which Operating System are we talking about here?
- Admin over 10 years
  
  OS = Windows 8 x64
- Admin almost 10 years
  
  Streaming means it may only be buffered in memory... So you're probably on a fruitless voyage of discovery.
Im2be almost 11 years

Will it show me where it is stored locally?
Karan almost 11 years

It should, or at least allow you to copy the file out. The cache folder is under your user data dir.
Im2be almost 11 years

I've tried this program, but there are no audio files in the list. I've checked the header of the song and the content type is "audio/mp4", but there are no items in the list with this content type.
Im2be almost 11 years

I'll also add, I'm mainly using pandora.com to stream the audio.
Im2be over 10 years

This looks promising! However, I did as you told me, but I can't seem to find any similar files in my Media Cache folder while streaming. In the folder, I can only see 5 files: "data_0", ..., "data_3" and "index". I have found some "fXXXXX" files with 2048 bytes in the "Cache" folder but no files with 1024 bytes.
d-coder about 9 years

Is it possible to alter this size from 1024 KB to some bigger size? Maybe if we could do it 10MB, no need to combine them in cmd then. btw - you anwered well.
Aakash about 8 years

@Im2be you can get it even if you have the web-link. create a minimalist html document with the link - <html><body><a href="http://link/tomusic.mp3">download this!</a></body></html> . Open this html document in a browser. Now, right click on the link and save it on your computer. Hope this helps...
Im2be about 8 years

That's not the problem. You're talking about direct downloadable mp3-files. That's childs play. I'm talking about media (.ts, .ogg, .mp4 audio encoded) that is streamed to the browser and is being played using a JS library. The individual audio-clips HAVE to be loaded by the browser in order for the client (me, or rather my browser) to be able to stream the song. So in essence, the question is: where exactly in the OS this file is (temporarily) stored.
Vomit IT - Chunky Mess Style almost 7 years

So for the part of "When streaming a song, in what folder does the song get saved?" are you answering that here too?
Dovid over 4 years

B"H Hello Still works as a charm. Just open a command prompt and go to the Chrome cache folder (AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Cache), sort by date, and connect the latest files of 1024 bytes, in alphabetic order, using the copy /b command as indicated above. Sincerely, Dovid.