There's some rare songs from a band I like (Something Like Silas) that I know are in the archive. Is there some way to contribute to the Hobbit player so I can add a direct download button for a specific song? Otherwise I'll have to pull the whole 1.3 TB (I will, but it'll take a few days and I really hope this doesn't get hit by a takedown notice within that time).
Used text editor's search to find what ever I need. Then "View Contents" on the correct ZIP file and download the mp3 file the search in text editor gave me. Therefore I just had to download the songs I wanted to get back to me.
Using Firefox, if you open up viewer.js in the debugger and set a breakpoint on line 265 where archiveurl is being set and select a track to play, you should be able to manually pick out either the zip file that contains it, or the file inside with the weird, jumbled name.
In the medium term, I'd rather rewrite my own offline music player. I don't like YouTube/Spotify streaming of pop music with ads, I like my rare indie MP3s ripped from demo CDs or from repairing a friend's iPod back in 2006. The column browser and playlist folders are essential for me to keep things organised, and smart playlists are far easier to understand than SQL queries.
Would anybody else be interested in rewriting iTunes together? It's one of the few reasons I haven't yet hopped to Linux. (also the trackpad driver, and osascript being built-in to every app).
Amarok doesn't have smart playlists. Clementine isn't maintained. Audacious doesn't seem to have column browser or playlist folders. Rhythmbox has a column browser, but not playlist folders. None have AppleScript support.
I've also added a download link to the player, so it's easier to get at the original mp3s now. However, it'll still have the obfuscated hash filename - I tried using the "download" attribute on the download href, but unfortunately it runs into issues with CORS.
I took a bunch of notes as I was developing this too, I'm planning on publishing it as a post soon. Keep an eye out for the follow-up!