This may surprise you, but it is true! You can find your music files using Google. If you do a simple search for your music file in Google it will throw up a set of links out of which the lion-share will be spam pages.

This edition of techblog is about the way using which you can find your music files.

Disclaimer: This tutorial should not be used for any illegal purposes. If you do so, you might be prosecuted and might be liable for the losses incurred.

Now, assume I am looking for the theme music of Rainman (composed by my favourite  composer Hans Zimmer). I can do that just by typing

intitle:"index.of" (mp3|mp4) Rainman theme

This actually looks for directories that are linked to Rainman . And here are the results:

Well, if I click on the first link that will direct me to a page where I could see many music files. And if I try to “save it as a file”, it will download an htm  file (web page). This means that I got into a streaming site!

Now I want to get rid of these things as well , since I want to download the files completely. So I will go to Google again and modify my query as

intitle:"index.of" (mp3|mp4) Rainman.hans.zimmer -html -htm -php -asp -aspx –jsp

This means that I don’t want any webpages and now I get a refined result page

And if I click on the link I can see the files.

Now I got the links to the actual files in the folder.

Some sites would have disabled direct download and may ask you to log into the system for downloading it.

But there is a way for avoiding this:

1. Look for .edu sites (may students store music files in their web space allocated by University) – check the copyrights before downloading

2. Look for ftp:// link

You might say that typing the query is really hard. We can solve this if you have Firefox.

Creating a Bookmark for the query:

1. Copy the link in your address bar (after searching in Google)

2. Click Ctrl+B . Then right click and select “New Bookmark…”

3. Enter details as shown below

You may enter the keyword as music or anything similar.

But DONOT forget to replace the actual query in the link to %s

say, if the query is rainman.hans.zimmer replace it by %s

Done!

Now you can open your Firefox and type music (or your keyword) followed by your query

eg:

music billie.jean

And your Firefox will show you the files!

Enjoy