Monday, June 30, 2008

A Free Music Resource

Multiply is a nice little music social network where you can create your own music profile, or view others. Here people share their playlists and such. Back in the day, searching and downloading music off of this site was quite easy, as both were options available on the site. Sadly this as all been disabled… but lucky for us, there is still a way! By following these steps, you can easily find the music you are looking for.

First off, visit www.multiply.com, and make yourself an account there if you want. Using their search options won’t be much help to you, so you are going to have to be a little tricksy with Google when searching for music. So obliviously the next step is… take a visit to Google. Once there, you have two options in how you search for your music. You can try a direct Google query, meaning this

"song title + artist",music/item site:multiply.com

Or you can be a little simpler, visit this custom Google search http://www.twentysixeleven.xtreemhost.com/Multiply.html and search away. When you have a page come up on your search, for some odd reason clicking it will just bring you to an error page, so what you have to do is take the link given in the title of the page, and paste it into your address bar.

Now comes downloading the music. On the site you are visiting, you should see a whole list of music. Under the album you want, click the highlighted title, then click play this playlist, and it should open whatever your default media player is, and play the music. Where it shows the titles of the tracks, right click on the song that you want, click properties, and look for that long web address. Copy it and paste it into your internet address bar. From there it should pop up the download window thingy and you can download the track. Enjoy :)

One final note, when searching for the music, sometimes Google won’t index anything. You might have to explore the site a bit, type junk into their search bar and see what you come up with. You may not find the music you were searching for, but stuff similar to it.

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