[-] quandoquando@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago

But hey, someone’s gotta do it

When the going gets tough, the tough get going

[-] quandoquando@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, and just googling something will be completely useless with a project named after a famous rock musician.

„How to upload pictures lemmy“, yes, thank you google, I know how Lemmy Kilmister looks, thank you.

That’s (among other things) why I hope kbin will be the victor of that race…

[-] quandoquando@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago

Lol, this community is simply amazing already :D

Somebody just reverse-engineered the App and the files' encryption and poured it into a simply python script, see the comments in this thread.

[-] quandoquando@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 year ago

:O Wow.

That is just simply amazing. Can confirm it works.

The file names are always the same, prefix and the sounds name, e.g. if the sound is called "The Electric Forest" it's com.HolographicAudioTheater.Naturespace.TheElectricForest.

I guess I could write a scraper and parse the whole collection.

Well, thank you kind stranger on the internet.

[-] quandoquando@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ha, I was just writing an update when your comment came.

I followed your advice and installed mitmproxy (basically fiddler2 but open source), which was easy enough, and managed to find that the app just posts GET requests the homepage, which result in a 302 Temporarily Moved, which ends on a public S3 folder.

The GET request includes some "ID", which I'm not sure I should post publicly, maybe it might identify me? It's like:

GET http://www.naturespace.com/ns5ios/?command=download&path=%2Fmedia%2Fmodules%2Fcom.HolographicAudioTheater.Naturespace.Aegir&lang=en&id=REDACTED&bvrs=5.15&sysv=16.5&model=iPhone&bid=com.HolographicAudioTheater.Naturespace&sys=iOS&loc=en_DE HTTP/1.1

But yes, it seems the files are encrypted. I couldn't find anything to open them, and no file identifier knows what it is. If you manage to get somewhere, that'd be awesome, my tech knowledge definitely ends here lol.

I guess it's not actually illegal to post this, since it really is just a public folder, so if anyone els wants to look at it, here's a file.

[-] quandoquando@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago

Ah, thank you! See, it didn't even occur to me to just intercept the audio in transit. That's really helpful, I will try this, thank you very much :)

[-] quandoquando@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago

Yes, I thought about that as well, but if possible I would prefer to retain the original data (also I just like to tinker with stuff :) ).

However, like you said, they're doing some "spatial" stuff they don't disclose. I assume it's just some EQ, but if they really have some algorithm to compute HRTF or even they're own audio format, then re-recording might actually be the only solution.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by quandoquando@slrpnk.net to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Edit 2: Well I'll be damned. An extremely knowledgeable and kind stranger just reverse-engineered the whole thing and poured it into a python script. And it's only Monday. See comments for the script.


Edit: Oh wow, this community is already on fire. Thanks for your advice everybody, I didn't even think of intercepting the downloads in transit! Brilliant.

I will try to see how far I can get there, but that does sound much easier than rummaging around in iOS. Thank you all :)


Hello,

I’m trying to get the downloaded audio out of an iOS app, but I struggle because the information I can find is mostly rather old, needs some additional software I need to pay for, etc. The content is downloaded post installing the app, so simply accessing the IPA doesn’t help.

I have this app called naturespace (see naturespace.org), it’s an app that has really good recordings of rain, thunderstorms, etc. In my opinion those recordings are far better than anything I’ve heard so far.

Now, I did pay for the content, but the app hasn’t been updated for years now, and there’s also been no new content for years as well. I wrote to the owners but didn’t get any response. I guess you could consider it abandoned at this point.

Since I fear that anytime soon the app stops working, I’d like to save that content.

I’m a bit tech savvy, I can work with CLI and such, but I’m not a professional coder or hacker, any help is appreciated.

[-] quandoquando@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago

The information posted is completely outdated, Germany has changed its laws considerably since then:

https://www.anwalt.de/rechtstipps/bgh-urteil-zu-filesharing-keine-antwortpflicht-auf-abmahnungen-i-zr-228-19-200553.html

[-] quandoquando@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 year ago

This is old and false information. The incident in the link happened already a decade ago and laws have changed since then.

The current situation is that they need to prove it was you and not someone else in front of a court, so if you tell them it wasn’t you but someone you know they’d need to open up a court case which is way to expensive for them and that’s it.

Also what are you on about „citizens reporting on each other“, lol. This is some lawyers who found an easy way to make money. Those exist in every country. Also everywhere „private companies“ (aka lawyers) can make investigations and go prosecute someone. That’s what they’re for.

quandoquando

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