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

Question

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.

score 7 · Answer 1 · edited Dec 05 '13 at 12:12

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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.

edited Dec 05 '13 at 12:12

Andrea

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answered Dec 05 '13 at 09:31

Elvio

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score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 05 '15 at 14:34

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!

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 20 '13 at 18:11

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

answered Jul 20 '13 at 18:11

Karan

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 22 '17 at 02:43

Navigate to this folder >>>> C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome SxS\User Data\Profile 1\IndexedDB\https_www.pandora.com_0.indexeddb.blob\1\00
Right click on an empty space and sort this Folder by date modified
open the most recently modified file with notepad (If you ordered it descending from top to bottom it is the first file)
Press ctrl+F in the notepad to open a word search.
Search for the song name exactly as it is written or using a single word from it ie: Metallica's "stairway to Heaven", you can search for the word stairway and it should work fine. Make sure to press enter only 1 time otherwise it will put you out of place.
Now search for the following text "audioURL"
Copy the URL that you see next to "audioURL" (URL will be on the right hand side). It is very long and usually goes onto the next line unless you have a large monitor. It typically ends with the following characters "3D%3D"

Paste the url into a web browser (Microsoft edge will play the song but you cant save it. so use any other browser) then either Use the download arrow on the media bar, or ctrl+s, or open the menu and find "save page as". It should save as an m4e by default.
Play the song on the Media player of your choice.
OPTIONAL Right click the file you saved and hit properties go to the "details" tab and fill in the song info.

Cheers :D

P.S. I'm a Necromancer (:

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

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