How to Find and Download MP3s with Google

Download MP3s with Google

There are many other guides explaining how to download MP3s with Google. Most of them take advantage of search operators that are unlisted on Google’s search help. Generally, when one of these search operators is being taken advantage of for illegal purposes they will temporarily disable it or, more probably, completely remove it. That said, the methods described in this article are subject to change. However, for your benefit, we will try our best to keep the generic search queries we provide you up to date (so bookmark us).

To add to the problems we will address, there are some cases where webmasters password protect their MP3s or disable the download of them using some other method. Webmasters generally do this when they notice that people are finding their website by searching some bizarre looking search query (like the search query we are going to provide you). So for popular songs, you can expect the first few results being disabled. That noted, the following line of code is a broad search term that will allow you to find and download MP3s using Google that may include some false positives (password protected files, etc.):

?intitle:index.of? mp3 "INSERT-TITLE/ALBUM/ARTIST-HERE"

This search query is ideal for songs that are newly released or not so popular (i.e. the MP3 files that Google has indexed that have not been downloaded so much that the webmasters consider it a problem and use some method of disabling the download). Simply replace INSERT-TITLE/ALBUM/ARTIST-HERE with whatever you are looking for. For example, if you want to find Blink 182′s song, “What’s My Age Again?” then use the following bit of code.

?intitle:index.of? mp3 "blink 182 what's my age again"

After you have found what you are looking for, just right click the link to the MP3 and “Save As”. Just make sure the file is an MP3 file and that your MP3 player is up-to-date.Do not let anyone trick you into opening a .exe file. Also, some older out-dated MP3 players may contain vulnerabilities capable of being exploited by .MP3 files so it is important to keep your MP3 player up-to-date if you are going to use this method to find and download MP3s with Google.

Example of Using “Save As” on a Download Page

Better Way to Download MP3s with Google

Since we first published this article, the first search results for “Blink 182 – What’s My Age Again?” stopped working. Perhaps this was because webmasters hosting MP3 files for “Blink 182 – What’s My Age Again?” started seeing traffic spikes from users testing our method to download MP3s with Google. The best way to get around them blocking their MP3s for download would be to just go elsewhere. After all, we do not want to invade their right to file privacy.

You can skip a few pages in the search results and more than likely find another suitable host to download from. The webmasters of these websites deeper in the search results are less likely to have obstacles in place protecting their MP3s. This is because they do not see people trying to download MP3s from their website on a regular basis.

If you perform a few searches using the aforementioned search query you may notice that one type of result almost always works. This is the FTP (File Transfer Protocol) result. FTP is channel (or protocol) used to transfer data over the internet just like HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol). FTP is generally not password protected. This may be because webmasters are not as likely to be monitoring their FTP web traffic. Regardless, downloading from an FTP server is our preferred way to download MP3s with Google.

To adapt our original solution, we can instruct Google to find results that are downloadable via FTP. Bear in mind, you will be disqualifying many of the results. However, this is a sure-fire way to download any popular MP3s (since there bound to be a lot of results for those). Tagging on ” and “ftp://” tells Google to do exactly what we want it to. This search query is not a broad search query and will include less results than the previous search query but may be more effective when you want to download MP3s with Google:

?intitle:index.of? mp3 "INSERT-TITLE/ALBUM/ARTIST-HERE" and "ftp://"

This method is our own. You can modify it to create your own search query. In fact, we suggest you do as a learning experiment. In our experiences, having a working knowledge of using Google search engine queries has been beneficial, to put things mildly.

The more popular the song, the more you may have to elaborate in order to ensure the first result is a match for what you are looking for. There are many ways of doing this. Using Google for complex searches is easier than you may suspect, you just have to be creative and logical. If you are looking to perfect your search queries, we suggest you get up-to-date using Google’s official Web Search Help. Then, if you are still not satisfied, we recommend you check out GoogleGuide.com’s tutorial on unlisted search operators (search operators that Google does not officially document).

Find Movies and TV Shows Using Google

These tricks can be used to find movies and TV shows too. Instead of using the search query to download MP3s with Google, you must change it to search for videos (or whatever you want). Just change the file-type term in the query to a common video format (such as AVI, MKV, or MOV). For example, you can find Season 5 of Dexter by using the following bit of code as your Google search query.

?intitle:index.of? avi "dexter season 5"

Find Software and Even More Using Google

The power of this search query is only limited by the all powerful Google and your creativity. For instance, we found disk images of Windows 7 by using the following search query.

?intitle:index.of? iso "windows 7"

Google is so dang powerful! Just remember, Google is limited by the ability of the searcher to properly create a search term. Adept searchers might try using underscores instead of spaces or use common naming conventions. That is, you could try to search for “windows_7″ if you wanted to try your luck using an underscore or search for “Windows 7 (64-bit)” if you want to use common naming conventions and you think that is what most people save their Windows 7 backup ISO files as.

But seriously though. Just buy Microsoft 8.

Results not Good Enough?

The search terms we recommended using are fairly basic but should do the job fairly well. If you are interested in fine-tuning your search query to better suit your purposes you can check out the following technical guide.

How To Find MP3′s with Google

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. Written by my_haz

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0) Key
1) Directories
2) Xitami Servers
3) Directory Listing
4) Andromeda Servers
5) Zina Artists
6) Apache mp3 Servers
7) Individual Songs

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You 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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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 everymonth
- intitle:index.of + mp3 + -html -htm -php -asp apache mar

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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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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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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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String Format :
Type 1 : “zina artists”

Examples :
- “zina artists”

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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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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