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Fravia.. looking
at your new searching site has inspired me to actually write
down how I have searched for something. I do not think I am a
great searcher, the trade is just too easy to be elitist! But
I had already chewed much of the material found on your site
(or is there an 'experienced' section?).
So, I assume this little 'lesson' may be beneficial
to those new at searching.
I'm sure you would never search for my particular target, but I was looking for a place to download mp3s from a little known heavy metal/techno band MDFMK. I did what you suggested which was to write down what I am looking for and time myself a maximum amount of 15 minutes. I completed this search in 9:54 minutes!
Searching for mp3s is nowadays one of the most common searches. Normally, I don't even consider this kind of retrieval a real "search": I just logon to [Napster], and look for the songs, which *normally* are always there. But, this time I had no luck: out of over 200,000 songs, and 1 terabyte of other songs.. I could not find any MDFMK songs at all! :(
Well I have now found napster, which I
recommend! You get there around a terabyte (or 1000GBs) of songs all
the time: no more broken links, no more slow downloads, and no more busy,
disorganized FTP sites... Anyway, before Napster
I looked for music either on IRC, or Homemade FTPs.
I DO NOT RECCOMEND GETTING SONGS THROUGH THESE TWO PATHS!! They can
be used only as a last resort.
On IRC, simply go into one of
the huge mp3 channels (cablemp3) and use @locator
<song/band/ect.>, then follow the bots instructions.
For the ftps, I recommend you use CuteFTP or another FTP
program, search for the song/band at one of those mp3 FTP
depositories (such as mp3.box.sk, mp3search.lycos.com,
www.audiogalaxy.com, www.oth.net, and I suppose http://ftpsearch.lycos.com) from there,
it's a guessing game normally, to see which FTPs are not
busy, have ratios, have been taken down, need you to survive
a barrage of
banner clicking... its a hell out there! So, go there as a LAST resort!! Ok..
this is how I started out..
Naspter's search for MDFMK gave me... nothing!! Now I had to actually work for something, this is when I started the clock :)
I searched for 'MDFMK mp3
download' at google.com. Good ole google returned a whopping 14 results
You may want to quickly scan with your eyes the following block.
MP3.com - QUANK ... download this at home.. Reached 2nd place Industrial Dance on mp3... ... MP3.com Entire Site Genres Only Regional Only Artists Only Songs Only... artists.mp3s.com/artists/30/quank.html - Cached - 52k - GoogleScout MP3.com - Nackt Schwein ... MP3.com Entire Site Genres Only Regional Only Artists Only Songs Only... ...Fi: Play (high-speed connections) Download (4.3 MB) Email Song Save to... artists.mp3s.com/artists/50/nackt_schwein.html - Cached - 31k - GoogleScout MP3.com - Ubiquitus ... MP3.com Entire Site Genres Only Regional Only Artists Only Songs Only... ...Fi: Play (high-speed connections) Download (4.2 MB) Email Song Save to... artists.mp3s.com/artists/19/dias_irae_the_days_of_anger.html - Cached - 31k - GoogleScout MP3.com - Rogue Blitzkrieg ... MP3.com Entire Site Genres Only Regional Only Artists Only Songs Only... ...Fi: Play (high-speed connections) Download (2.9 MB) Song Lyrics &... artists.mp3s.com/artists/51/blitzkrieg.html - Cached - 28k - GoogleScout LisztIRC: Undernet ...Exclusive: Connect to a Random Channel Download the mIRC Client | Join... ...are 11,1BORG15,1. 0,01The BEST MP3 Servers and the BEST MP3's!... www.liszt.com/chat/networks/undernet_num.html - Cached - 122k - GoogleScout LisztIRC: Undernet ...Exclusive: Connect to a Random Channel Download the mIRC Client | Join... ...sex, we just made it better! #0-day-mp3 1 #0-day-warez 2... www.liszt.com/chat/networks/undernet_alph.html - Cached - 122k - GoogleScout LisztIRC: Undernet ...Exclusive: Connect to a Random Channel Download the mIRC Client | Join... ...#0!!!!!!girlswhosuckcock 2 #0!!!!19/bi/female 1 #0-day-mp3 1 #10-17 1... www.liszt.com/chat/networks/undernet_alph_filtered.html - Cached - 106k - GoogleScout MobiusB - Music Links ...for preview as well as MP3's for download. Take me there... ...electronica sites and artists Site Info URL MP3.com Vast MP3... www.mobiusb.com/music_links.html - Cached - 30k - GoogleScout Bookmarks for Jason ...Heavy Metal Music Radio in Netshow MP3 and Real Audio TheDJ : What's... ...Tracker - Archived Updates ZDNet: Mac Download Operating Systems Mac OS... montana.iucc.iupui.edu/bookmarks.html - Cached - 128k - GoogleScout auf nimmerwierdersehen ...a(nother) nine inch nails website, download nin-related goodies and check... ...hundreds of zzt games and utils up for download. - crankgod's production... voighdt.trap.cx/links.html - Cached - 7k - GoogleScout | m | d | f | m | k | ...clique' with kmfdm, i highly doubt mdfmk will do any better,FAILURES!!!... ...(good job sascha) thru the years. + mdfmk.net gets me horny. thanks for... matrix.netos.com/~mdfmk/gb/pstpst/081799.html - Cached - 54k - GoogleScout Wicked Land - News Archive ...release. You can download 4 all new Reach MP3z at Mp3.com. Just... ...hardcore CD? Buy Reach's new CD at Mp3.com. Highly recommended. 10.12.99... www.wickedland.com/archive.html - Cached - 109k - GoogleScout Northwest Underground ... http://come.to/fire99 and download songs at http://www.mp3 ...From The Box March 1, 1999 KMFDM - MDFMK Sascha Konietzko and Tim Skold... www.stormloader.com/nwu/oldnews.html - Cached - 9k - GoogleScout Re: Genre busting (was Re: Re: Re: babble in pews) ...dark bands go? Skinny Puppy now = Download. they've had 3 full cd's and... ...cEVIN kEY is genious. KMFDM now = MDFMK. ingenious acronym? no. but it's... www.actwin.com/OtR/month.9903/msg00757.html - Cached - 5k - GoogleScout
I totally disregarded all of these.
MP3.com has
nothing
Undernet is IRC, and that's the LAST thing to
do
MobiusB - Music Links <-- said MP3.com
Bookmarks for
Jason <-- No personal pages, they always have nothing
uf
nimmerwierdersehen <-- My first instinct was 'english
please?' then the caption said garbage about NIN, and a
personal site isn't going to have those two on it
| m | d |
f | m | k | <-- I recognized this, this is from the
official mdfmk site, they sure as hell aren't going to have
their mp3's! :)
Wicked Land - News Archive <-- more
MP3.com BS
Northwest Underground <-- 'download songs'
caught my eye, and I clicked on this, but alas, it's been
taken down, the cached web page won't help me coz I want the
mp3s.
Re: Genre busting (was Re: Re: Re: babble in
pews) <-- this is another one I clicked on, the message
board caught my eye, and It could have a link to the songs,
but it didn't and the listing was over.
I thought about what I had read on fravia's site, and I came up with ..USENET!! A fast deja.com search led me to alt.music.mdfmk. Now .. if the band has it's own alt.music.place, let's leave deja to its crap advertisements and let's go directly to the beef. So I loaded up netscape to peruse there. And I came across a pretty little thread...
Subject: download mdfmk mp3's Date: 18 Feb 2000 03:11:11 GMT From: [email protected] (TSingle999) Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com Newsgroups: alt.music.mdfmk
where can i download these? i am a newbie to
this list. thanx for your help. shiva
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Subject: Re: download mdfmk mp3's
Date: Fri,
18 Feb 2000 13:12:54 GMT
From: Brett Banditelli
<[email protected]>
Organization: bCandid - Powering
the world's discussions -
http://bCandid.com
Newsgroups: alt.music.mdfmk
References: 1
goto mdfmkmp3.cjb.net, its a link to the album at freedrivespace, ull prolly need an accoumt, i think rainmkr123 or someone originally posted it there
(hey! a link!! I'm there,
but I need the shared folder password. I continue with the
thread..) what is the shared files
password? (Yeah! What is it? :) I keep reading..) found it
mdfmk So my final results for the MDFMK album is http://mp3.freediskspace.com/Folders/649292/
with the shared folder password of 'mdfmk' This is my recommendation for finding a song in MP3 form:
and also,
Note that I am sure that ICQ has stuff like that as well,
but I'm not into it, so at eventual
6th place, search inside ICQ :) I hoped this has helped anyone to find mp3s,
remember as always, to buy the CD after, if you like the
band, support them!
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Subject: Re: download mdfmk
mp3's
Date: 19 Feb 2000 20:04:48 GMT
From:
[email protected] (TSingle999)
Newsgroups:
alt.music.mdfmk
References: 1
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Subject: Re: download mdfmk mp3's
Date: 19 Feb 2000 20:13:17 GMT
From: [email protected]
(TSingle999)
Organization: AOL
http://www.aol.com
Newsgroups: alt.music.mdfmk
References: 1
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(Duh! Why didn't I think of that?
:)
And the
stopped clock is at 5:06, so this search took a total 9:54.
later TheLearner_