This How-To will teach you how to use Google to find MP3s. This How-To will be highly pragmatic and will focus on the hows and not the wherefores of the various search strings.
Note: This info works just great for ebooks as well just change mp3 to pdf, djvu, ps, etc…
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= Index
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0) Key
1) Directories
2) Xitami Servers
3) Directory Listing
4) Andromeda Servers (depricated)
5) Zina Artists (depricated)
6) Apache mp3 Servers
7) Individual Songs
8 ) Saving Shoutcasts
9) Social Bookmarking
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= Section 0 - KEY
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This are just some definitions I will use below.
[Directory String] can be any of the following :
1) “index of”
2) “last modified”
3) “parent of”
[file type] can be any of the following :
1) “mp3″
2) “shn”
3) “wma”
[mp3 name] can be any of the following :
1) the name of the album in quotes
2) the name of the artist in quotes
3) be daring and leave it blank and have lots of links
4) be creative!
[limitors]
1) -html -htm -php -asp -txt -pls
(inurl:) is optional and may be omitted and in fact most be omitted if not using a search tool other than google.
(intitle:) can be used in place of (inurl:) and has a similar effect again you must be useing google.
(-filetype:txt) adding this to the end of your search string can filter some false positives.
(-playlist) adding this to the end of your search string can filter some false positives.
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= Section 1 - Directories
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These are the most common way that mp3s are stored on the www, you should try these strings first.
String Format :
Type 1 : [Directory String] + (inurl:)[file type] + [mp3 name]
Type 2 : [Directory String] + (intitle:)[file type] + [mp3 name]
Type 3 : [Directory String] + [file type] + [mp3 name] + [limitors]
Example Strings :
- intitle:index.of + mp3 + “grandaddy” -html -htm -php -asp -txt -pls
- “index of” + “mp3″ + “radiohead” -html -htm -php
- “index of” + mp3 + “grandaddy”
- “index of” + inurl:mp3 + “beatles” -txt -pls
- “index of” + intitle:mp3 + beatles
- “last modified” + “shn” + “dylan”
- “last modified” + inurl:shn + “bob dylan”
- “parent of” + inurl:wma + “grandaddy”
Suggestions :
- Try (intitle:index.of + “mp3″ + “band name” -htm -html -php -asp) first it is usually the most effective.
Another Little Trick:
- If you have been getting alot of results on google but the pages don’t seem to be there try adding dates and the “apache” string to your search i.e.
- intitle:index.of + mp3 + “grandaddy” -html -htm -php -asp apache feb-2005
- intitle:index.of + mp3 + “grandaddy” -html -htm -php -asp apache 2005
or if you just want a big list of mp3′ doing a search like this every month
- intitle:index.of + mp3 + -html -htm -php -asp apache mar
or if you want to condense the search try
- intitle:index.of + (mp3|ogg) + “grandaddy” -(html|php|asp) +apache mar-2007
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= Section 2 - Xitami Servers
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String Format :
Type 1 : “xitami web server” + (inurl:)[file type] + [mp3 name]
Type 2 : “xitami web server” + (intitle:)[file type] + [mp3 name]
Example Strings :
- “xitami web server” + “mp3″ + “radiohead”
- “xitami web server” + intitle:shn + “beatles”
- “xitami web server” + inurl:mp3 + “magnetic fields”
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= Section 3 - Directory Listing
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String Format :
Type 1 : “directory listings” + (inurl:)[file type] + [mp3 name]
Type 2 : “directory listings” + (intitle:)[file type] + [mp3 name]
Type 3 : “directory listings of” + (inurl:)[file type] + [mp3 name]
Type 4 : “directory listings of” + (intitle:)[file type] + [mp3 name]
Example Strings
- “directory listings” + “mp3″ + “radiohead”
- “directory listings” + intitle:shn + “beatles”
- “directory listings” + inurl:mp3 + “magnetic fields”
- “directory listings of” + “mp3″ + “radiohead”
- “directory listings of” + intitle:shn + “beatles”
- “directory listings of” + inurl:mp3 + “magnetic fields”
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= Section 4 - Andromeda Servers
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String Format :
Type 1 : “scott matthews” + andromeda + [mp3 name]
Type 2 : “scott matthews” + andromeda + [file type] + [mp3 name]
Type 3 : “powered by andromeda” + [mp3 name]
Type 4 : “powered by andromeda” + [file type] + [mp3 name]
Type 5 : inurl:andromeda.php + [mp3 name]
Type 6 : inurl:anromeda.php + [file type] + [mp3 name]
Type 7 : “scott matthews”
Type 8 : “powered by andromeda”
Type 9 : inurl:andromeda.php
Examples :
- “scott matthews” + andromeda + “radiohead”
- “scott matthews” + andromeda + “mp3″ + “fitter”
- “powered by andromeda” + “gradaddy”
- “powered by andromeda” + “mp3″ + “just like women”
- inurl:andromeda.php + “shn”
- inurl:anromeda.php + “wma” + “dylan”
- “scott matthews”
- “powered by andromeda”
- inurl:andromeda.php
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= Section 5 - Zina Artists
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String Format :
Type 1 : “zina artists”
Examples :
- “zina artists”
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= Section 6 - Apache mp3 Servers
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String Format :
Type 1 : “stream all” + apache + [mp3 name]
Type 2 : “stream all” + apache
Type 3 : “shuffle all” + apache + [mp3 name]
Type 4 : “shuffle all” + apache
Examples :
- “stream all” + apache
- “stream all” “shuffle all” mp3
- “stream all” + apache + radiohead
- “shuffle all” + beatles
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= Section 7 - Individual Songs
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Format : [mp3 name].mp3 -playlist -filetype:txt
Examples :
- “ok_computer_live.mp3″ -playlist -filetype:txt
- “*ok_computer*.mp3″ -playlist -filetype:txt
- kid*a.mp3 -playlist -filetype:txt
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= Section 8 - Shoutcasts
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0) Streamripper is a free shoutcast recorder
1) Find a shoutcast that you would like to save.
2) Download and open the .pls file, to discover the stream url
File1=http://example.site:80/stream/1074
3) Open up a terminal (DOS or xterm)
4) break up the url into its parts (site,port,locations) so here we have
site: example.com
port: 80
location: /stream/1074
5) Uset telnet to Send HTTP GET message and redirect output. The request is
prompt$ telnet site port > output.mp3
GET location HTTP/1.0
PRESS_ENTER_KEY PRESS_ENTER_KEY
so in the example above
prompt$ telnet example.site 80 > output.mp3
GET /stream/1074 HTTP/1.0
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= Section 9 - Social Bookmarking
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Social Bookmarks sites, are site where people can leave links to other interesting sites given a certain “tag.” Tags are sort of like search terms and categories combined. Searching anyone of these bookmark sites for the type or music or band you like is almost sure to bring up lots of links to free mp3s. There are two links at the top of this page digg and del.ici.us, I use and there are others. If you do join a site make sure to give me a thanks by adding a link to this site!
