Hack Attack : Find The Most Obscure MP3’s Using Google
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Music sharing has been of the most common file sharing activities on the internet. There are many ways you could find the music you were looking for by using tools like Limewire, BitTorrent etc.. But most times nothing beats a Google search does it? Yes you heard that right.. Google may as well be your best friend if you are looking to find music freely on the Internet.
Just follow the instructions below, and you will be on your way to find the music that you otherwise won’t find on P2P networks. The hack simply involves the major search engines revealing their vast indexes to you so that you can find what you are looking for.
I’m going to give some modified special search strings that will help you find hidden stuff from Google, Yahoo and MSN.
How to Accomplish the Hack
Click on the links below for your favorite search engine. Modify the details according to your liking (for example replace Linkin Park with Radiohead or just the song name). Change the “wma/mp3″ tag to other format such as “ogg” if you wish to download the music in other not so popular formats.
“parent directory” mp3 OR wma OR ogg OR wav Linkin Park -html -htm -download -links
“parent directory” AND (Linkin AND Park) AND (mp3 OR wma OR ogg) AND NOT(”download”) AND NOT(”links”)
“parent directory” AND (Linkin AND Park) AND (mp3 OR wma OR ogg) AND NOT(”download”) AND NOT(”links”)
Using the major search engines should help you find any kind of music you are looking for, but there other alternative music only search engines also available that deserve a mention. Check out Alltheweb Audio (mp3), mp3realm and espew
So that was it. I hope this guide will help you find the music you have been looking for quite some time now.. Have a musical day ahead. Do drop in a comment with the song/artist/band that you found with this hack!
Special Credit to Blog Anything
17 Comments, Comment or Ping
Shankar Ganesh
Or use http://www.exploseek.com
Just type in the keyword, and operators like:
“parent directory” mp3 OR wma OR ogg OR wav Linkin Park -html -htm -download -links
are added automatically so that you needn’t remember them at all.
Apr 28th, 2008
feminizedwesternmale
How fresh. /sarc
Apr 28th, 2008
FireFox
Resetting posts isn’t a good way to be objective…
Apr 30th, 2008
poo nanny
http://www.musgle.com - it does this for you
May 1st, 2008
Jenny
Interesting.
May 1st, 2008
Abhijeet from Jeet Blog
Last but the best: use chilirec.com . Check its wonderful features at jeetblog.com
But this was certainly an informative post. stumbled
May 1st, 2008
Eden
http://www.goofile.net
May 3rd, 2008
Ikin
It doesn’t work for m4p’s, which iTunes uses.
May 3rd, 2008
FireFox
Itunes uses mp4 but can also use mp3 or a plethora of other formats.
BTW : Can anyone find a way to make it easy to play flac files in itunes?
May 4th, 2008
AA
you can use http://www.g2p.org too
much better
May 6th, 2008
tompz
hey…. try projectfindmusic.com
I like quite leftfield stuff and manage to find everything through this site!
happy hunting.
May 6th, 2008
noob
any song it finds it won’t let me download. tried the right click save as too
May 8th, 2008
Akiva Weisinger
is there anyway to search for whole albums?
May 8th, 2008
Rachel
Interesting, thanks! Will try it out.
May 9th, 2008
Fabiolus
Instead of using the sites listed here you can customize the query yourself in Google.
Use this in Google
intitle:”index.of” (mp3|mp4|avi) songname -html-php-asp-cf-jsp
This particular query search for various format file such as mp3, mp4, avi…yes avi lol you can get movies arghhh!!!!! The middle part is obviously the song name, movie name etc…. Last part specify the page type we wish to include in the query.
Good luck and use wisely
Your friendly internet user
May 14th, 2008
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