Cube got you down? Listen to a Movie!

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Cube got you down? Listen to a Movie!

by Emily Price Mar 31st 2007

Listen To A Movie is a website designed solely for the purpose of listening to your favorite movies and TV shows. The site contains a pretty substantial collection of low-quality audio files for popular movies and TV shows that can be listened to for free using the sites built-in audio player. Clips can be paused, fast-forwarded and rewound to get to your favorite parts, or you can scroll through parts that translate much better when you can see them. You can also comment on your favorite movies, read small plot outlines, and of course purchase the DVD.

Designed for "the cubicle workers of the world," the player can be quickly put in "stealth mode" which disguises it as an excel spreadsheet when you boss walks by. While the excel sheet is still blatantly an explorer window that says "Listentoamovie" on it, you could fool the less observant passerby. This isn't exactly the best way to "see" a movie for the first time, but for things like episodes of The Simpsons or movies you may have seen a thousand times, it can be a great way to pass the afternoon in the ol' cube.

Tags: listen to movies, ListenToMovies, movie, online audio, OnlineAudio, video

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Mike Harris said 2:03PM on 3-31-2007

Yeah, this'll last long.

p-diddy said 2:42PM on 3-31-2007

I did this with my iPod in the days before the video iPod. Ripped the audio track from the DVD and would listen on my way to work. Some movies (Office Space, Old School, etc) I've seen so many times that I don't need to "see" the movie to watch it anymore.

Good idea, bad to put up on the web (hey, it's still (c) infringement).

-p-

Buck Jones III said 9:20PM on 3-31-2007

If you're bored and can't watch a movie...

Try "A Movie In Your Mind" from GraphicAudio. They have a production with DC Comics coming out in May!

http://www.graphicaudio.net

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