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Apple's iTunes music store not only offer a great music variety, there is also a good collection of music videos ready to enjoy.
Still, you always need to open your iTunes client browse to the video you want to watch or just listen to and re-download it - the quicktime movie doesn't get cached nor is it anywhere to be found on your hard drive.
A few simple configuration tricks later however and you know where iTunes gets the movie from and can download it yourself.
Let's look at this step by step:
1.) As a 1st step I configured my Mac to become its own Web Proxy:
2.) Secondly, I used the Axis TCP Monitor to proxy and look at the net-traffic on port 80 - any other TCP monitor may work equally well.
3.) Next step, browse to the video in iTunes and take a look at the TCP Monitor right after the final request took place. This should reveal the URL for the video, i.e.: GET http://a611.phobos.apple.com/Features/y2004/m10/d14/h15/dj.cdxyvfgq.mov HTTP/1.1
Now that we know the URL, all what's missing is a tool to download it - a simple HTML page does the trick:
... after opening this HTML page in a Web-Browser and performing a Download Linked File As... the quicktime movie file is finally saved to the hard drive.
Be warned, the movie files are potentially large, 50MB are quite common, but come in really good quality: 480 x 360 MPEG-4 Video, 32000Hz Stereo Sound.
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