Mera Pyiara Preetam Satgur Rakhvaala

[RupZ]

You can download it, you know? It's tricky though, and I gotta go soon; I'll explain how to later if you don't know.

Cheers :TH:

[Bhajanpreet]

I tried to make this dummy-proof and explained a lot, so if you know what you're doing, you can skip around, the actual process isn't that long.

So first go to Sikhnet.com Gurbani MP3 Files page, collapse the MP3 section and uncollapse (compose?) the RealMedia section (you can't download MP3's unless if you are a paying member, as far as I know). Link

Find the track that you want and click on it. Example Link

Now it might get a bit weird. You have to download the RealMedia file of the shabad, so... the best way I would say is to use Mozilla Firefox, because it's already so cool, and it'll catch the download and ask you were to save it. If you use Microsoft Internet Explorer you have to do something weird; first you have to click on the shabad and then you right click and hit "Save Target As..." If you don't click on the link first, it will try to save the target as a .htm (or similar) file. After hitting the link wait for RealPlayer to open up then try to download. Make sure to check that the extension is .rm or .ram (I don't think RealMedia files have any other extension). You could download the .htm file and then look for the link in there, but that's actually more work. Because of this annoying process, if you're going to download many files, I would use Firefox. Or... you could use a download manager that catches the link when you click on it, but I won't explain that. Example Link to .ram File

I know it's lame, but the process isn't done. Sikhnet is actually pretty smart, so when they give streaming audio, it's actually true streaming audio (other times the file is saved in your cache, in which case if the link is hidden you could actually just go to your temp folder and find it... cool). So the file you downloaded is just telling RealPlayer where the real file is. And this real file can't be downloaded using normal means (because it's true streaming audio).

To find where the real link it, right click on the .rm or .ram file and hit "Open With..." Find notepad, or some other text editor, and open it. There will be a link written in the file, but if you notice it doesn't say "http" it says "rtsp". This is why you need another program to download the file. I just searched "download rtsp" (without quotes, duh) at Google and found a bunch of freeware links. You should be able to tell the program where the file is and download it.

Yay! That's it... lol I'm not sure if Sikhnet would really want you to do this, so if you can get a paid membership and download the .mp3 files, first of all .mp3 files are much cooler than .rm or .ram in my opinion, and second of all you're supporting the great site that Sikhnet is. Plus, this is kind of "tricking the system" so... I don't know if we're even allowed to do it...? It's not really hacking or anything, though, so I don't see how we could get in trouble, really... Well, hope that helps; PM me if you have any questions (I don't wanna flood this thread or anything).