Big Rock Untapped allows artists to contribute music for release as a compilation album, promoting independent artists and local bands. I was tasked to find a way to download the music files (hundreds of them) and scoffed at the idea of manually downloading each of them. I considered using PHP to grab the files, but then remembered about wget which my old colleague used to pull the Weather Network current temperature for Fairmont Hot Springs Resort. After a bit of searching, I found Quentin Stafford-Fraser’s wget for Mac OS X which was a very helpful pre-compiled for OSX version of the binary and off I went. With the wget manual at my disposal, I was able to download the scores of files all in one go, definitely making my life easier (and preventing future cringing the next time I have to do this pull).
This reinforces the feeling I had in first year Computer Science: the joy of making computers do my bidding. Mwahaha!
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