| For a music lover looking to download their favorite | | | | Google should go looking for; only it works much better |
| songs online for free, one of the best places to start | | | | to separate multiple words in the title with dots rather |
| searching is the same place millions of people search | | | | than spaces. This will help to reduce spam results and |
| for everything else: Google. With a little bit of | | | | hopefully only return the actual song files, for |
| convincing, Google will show a clever user where to | | | | example:this.song.rocks ormy.favorite.album |
| download all sorts of music files for free with just a | | | | So with all the pieces, it's time to put it all together. With |
| single click. | | | | a song or album in mind, it's just as simple as going to |
| There is, however, a little more work to finding music | | | | the Google search bar and typing in (or copy and |
| files available for download than your average search. | | | | paste for the lazy):intitle:"index.of" (mp3|mp4) -html -htm |
| Do a normal Google search for an artist or the title of | | | | -php -asp -cf -js super.awesome.song |
| a song and you'll be bombarded with the official band | | | | From here it's just a matter of pressing enter and |
| webpage, pages selling their CDs, their Wikipedia | | | | letting Google do the leg work. When the results come |
| article, fan pages, news articles… | | | | up, they are a list of directories that contain music files. |
| Which is all well and good for someone who wants to | | | | Some of these directories are better than others. |
| learn more about an artist, but a true music lover is | | | | Some of them contain an entire album; some of them |
| looking to download their songs free to their computer. | | | | are just a collection of random songs. The best results |
| To him, those information pages are pretty much | | | | can be found when the directory is listed in the |
| useless. The good news is that with just a few simple | | | | following form: |
| modifications, anyone can use Google to search for | | | | Index of /user/artist/album |
| their favorite music, which can be easily downloaded | | | | If the artist is in bold in the Google search link, there's a |
| for free. | | | | better chance that inside that directory will be found |
| So how exactly does a crafty searcher do to find the | | | | the song that was searched for. Sometimes it takes |
| music they want? Most songs that are stored online | | | | some trial and error, sometimes it is the first one on |
| can be found in directories on servers throughout the | | | | the list. |
| world. The difference between directories and regular | | | | When clicking the link on the Google results page and |
| webpages is found in the title of the page and the | | | | entering the directory listing, it is just a matter of clicking |
| extension. | | | | on the song title to start playing the song in the |
| An online directory will always begin with the following | | | | browser window. If it's the right song, a simple right |
| phrase:index of /folder/subfolder/… | | | | click will bring up the option of saving the file to the |
| This allows a clever searcher to plug this distinguishing | | | | computer hard drive to play it later. |
| characteristic into Google to target only online | | | | Now this is a quick way to see what people are |
| directories. This fix is as simple as putting the following | | | | storing on web servers around the world, but it can be |
| into the Google search bar:intitle:"index.of" | | | | pretty complicated entering in intitle:"index.of" |
| This will tell Google to return only online directories, | | | | (mp3)… into Google just to do a quick search |
| rather than the usual webpages. Next, the search | | | | for a song. |
| results should be narrowed down to tell Google that it | | | | The good news is that geeky searchers have been |
| should only return directories that contain music files. | | | | working on a solution to streamline the process and |
| This can be done simply by enclosing the file types | | | | make it much easier. |
| desired in parenthesis, for example: | | | | This tool makes it just as easy as any regular Google |
| (mp3|mp4) | | | | search, but will allow even the novice user to find and |
| This will return only folders that contain mp3 or mp4 | | | | download music with just a click of the mouse. In my |
| music files. Next, Google needs to know not to return | | | | next article, I'll show you where lazy music lovers go to |
| regular webpages, which have file extensions rather | | | | have Google search for music. |
| than just folders with music files. So in order to tell | | | | Until Next Time, |
| Google to completely disregard regular webpages and | | | | The Rich Pirate |
| show online directories, one would simply add a minus | | | | "Pirate This eBook" is an in depth look at the best |
| sign before the file extensions they don't want to see, | | | | methods used by music and movie lovers to find |
| for example: | | | | themselves on all the music and movie enjoyment |
| -html -htm -php -asp -cf -js | | | | they can handle. I'll show you where they look, how |
| Now to the part where an enterprising music lover tells | | | | they get it, and how they protect themselves from |
| Google exactly what he is searching for. Searches | | | | viruses, trojans, worms and more! You don't want to |
| can be done by putting in the artist, album, or song that | | | | pass this up! |