I got a ton of emails today asking how exactly I ripped the URL's for the Live 8 Feeds.
Also, this blog has been linked from tons of other places. Well, here you go.
First, this isn't going to work on any windows machine, you need a unix-ish OS for this to work.
First:
make and cd into a temp directory
wget the 2 files that will provide you with a list of artist IDs

wget "http://music.channel.aol.com/live_8_concert/berlin_paris_rome" \
"http://music.channel.aol.com/live_8_concert/london_philly_toronto"

next, parse those two files

cat berlin_paris_rome london_philly_toronto |\
grep -e artistid|tr '<>' '\n'|grep -e ^a|cut '-d"' -f2|\
tr '&?' '\n'|grep -e artistid|cut '-d=' -f2|tr -d '\r' > artistids

then get the artist index pages for each artist.

mkdir artists
cat artistids |while read artistid;do
wget -O artists/$artistid "http://music.aol.com/artist/main.adp?tab=songvid&artistid=$artistid" -nv
done

Next, extract a list of pmmsids from the artist pages, only for Live 8.

grep -e OpenFullPMMSID artists/* |grep -e 'LIVE 8'|cut "-d'" -f4 > pmmsids

then grab the page that actually shows the video using the pmmsid as a refrence.
Your first instinct will probably be to try and grab this URL

http://mp.aol.com/video.index.adp?pmmsid=1357877

But, that's wrong. Because we aren't using any cookie store with wget AOL will prompt for what speed video you want.
Obviously I want the highest possible bitrate, so let's trick them by getting this URL.

http://mp.aol.com/speed.adp?speed=bb&url=/video.index.adp?pmmsid= 1357877

this is slightly inefficent, but works.
This makes the final code look something like this:

cat pmmsids|while read line;do
wget "http://mp.aol.com/speed.adp?speed=bb&url=/video.index.adp?pmmsid=$line" -O pmm/$line -nv
done

Run these files through grep & awk.

grep -e PlayVideoLarge pmm/*|tr ';' '"'\
|awk '-F"' '{printf "http://pdl.stream.aol.com";printf  $2;print "_dl.mov"}'

Viola, you have your list.
More to come later.