It’s amazing what you can find on Google if you know how, here’s a good way to find mp3s.
Say I wanted to download Phil Collins mp3s then if you enter this into the search box ?intitle:index.of? mp3 “phil collins” then have a look through the results. If you’re lucky you’ll see a page a bit like the one below:
Now you could download each of the songs one at a time but this would be laborious, a better technique is to download a program called Wget. Wget will let us download all these files in one go. If you’re using windows you can download Wget from here.
To download all the mp3 files links on your page start up the command line prompt and type:
wget -r -l1 -t1 -nd -N -np -A.mp3 -erobots=off URL
Where URL is the url of your site. For Wget to run from the command line you’ll either have to be in the directory of the wget executable or you’ll need to add the location of the Wget executable to your windows path. For more information on how Wget works simply type Wget –help from the commandline.
Hats off to Jeffrey Been who’s written an excellent article about automatically getting mp3s from music blogs using Wget.
DISCLAIMER: I take no responsibility if you choose to use this technique to download illegal mp3s. Everytime you download a copyrighted mp3 a kitten dies, if it’s a Phil Collins mp3 five kittens die!
# Pete Graham
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