The WWW is an almost unlimited source of audio and video files. Most of the time, playing a file from the internet is fine. You watch or listen to it once, or you bookmark it to come back to it - and that's the end of the story. However, it is not uncommon to find an audio or video file on the web that you'd like to have on your hard drive. Some common examples are musicians that want to learn a song or an athlete that wants to study a video of a move, or play, or technique from their particular sport.

There are many A/V Downloaders on the internet, but in almost all cases, these products work with exceptions. In other words there are some sites on which they do not work and from which they are unable to grab the audio or video. From a technical standpoint this is not surprising. There are many different ways to handle and process audio and video from a web page and some of these technologies render the technologies used in downloader products ineffective. However, with Download Surgeon that all changes. Download Surgeon can grab ANY VIDEO, or ANY AUDIO from ANY SITE on the internet.