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Monday, August 11, 2008

[how-to] download mp3's with google

This will be a multi-post how-to. I wouldn't want to overload this page ending up with an extremely long (yawn) article.

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How to download mp3's with Firefox Plug-in
How to download mp3's with Torrents

By now, you may have had several ways of getting mp3’s… so these arefor those that don’t know still or those that forgot. hehe

Legal Disclaimer: (Let’s get this out of the way first)
By reading on, you expressly agree that,

  • This article is strictly for educational purposes only.
  • The methods outlined here are most likely known and have multiple articles posted on a gazillion pages.
  • Piracy is illegal in most countries so you won’t do it.
  • Buy only original music CD’s or from authorized web vendors.
  • You will only read this article and not do the steps outlined.



Google

This was reliable a few years back, when loads of people stored everything on public FTP's but now it's getting more and more difficult to download 'stuff' with this method. Still works sometimes though...

See the Google search bar i have on the upper right side?

Go there and type the name of the artist, title of the song or album and paste this at the end.

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Tip: You can make use of grouping operators for a tight resultset.

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If it's too restrictive, just try with the artist name and/or song title.

Search box on top page too far of a movement for your wrist?
Here, just add in the song title, artist name, album, etc... and hit search.




Tip: This is more of a general use article. You can search for virtually any file type by simply modifying the "mp3" part of the query string to your file extension of choice ("pdf","doc","wma", etc.)

Once you get your search results, it should look something like this
Google Search Result

Search through the results, we want the FTP directories which looks like this
FTP Site Sample

Click and download.

Note: You will sometimes get results which look like FTP directories, but after clicking on the file, will redirect you to a website. Just go back and try a different one.

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