How to Find Mp3's on FTP servers
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(FTP) is File Transfer Protocol. Ftp is one of my best ways to find many mp3 Albums and songs. One thing to remember about ftp, 90% of the ftp sites you will be downloading from are located on someone personal home computer. Which means that a site might not always be online. If the person decides to shutdown his computer to go to work then the IP address of this Site could change. There are a lot of Ratio sites, they require you to upload a file before downloading. Some ratio site's are 1:1 and some are 1:4. Also there are many membership sites, these sites have a text file that you can download after connecting to the site that tells how to become a member. There are private site's that someone has setup for friends. And there are banner site's , these sites require you to go to website's normally (Porno) and click on banners starting from the ftp site owners WebPages. They get paid for each click coming from their website. And you have to search through these Sites to find a User Name and Password, these are the worst of the ftp site's, stay away from them if you can. And last but not least there are free site's you don't find many of these and when you do they are crowded and may have a hard time connecting.

Ok let's get started. First you need to download a few programs. First go to Leapware.com and download LeapFtp 2.x. After you've gotten that program go to Mp3Fiend.com page and Download Mp3fiend, or you can get both these programs and many more from our Utiliies section. Install both programs.

Ok now that the programs are installed . I will cover finding song with fiend. I don't use fiend to download files just locate them for me. I started up Mp3 fiend and Entered Prodigy in the search window. Below are some returns I got from mp3 fiend, and how to decipher what it found.

So we decide we want to download this song . Lets take apart the address so we can use it in LeapFtp or which ever ftp program you my use. (ftp://) just tells use that it is a ftp server (mp3:mp3) the first mp3 is the user name you will use connecting to the server and the second mp3 is the password you will use. (@24.0.212.93) is the IP address of the ftp server. Notice the IP address of the Server above the one I selected to download from. Look closely at it's IP address (@150.243.173.156:156) See something different ? The :156 part. When you see that you will have to enter that in as the Port #. Now your ready to try to connect to the site. Pay close attention to the welcome message when you connect to the site. Many times there will be special instruction specific to the site.

You can also use many diffrent programs or website searches to locate ftp's. Lets look at how Oth.net does things and how we can use their search. I did a search for Scooter this time. This was first return from the search.

When you put your pointer on the title as if to download the file through Oth.net you will see the ftp site's address at the bottom of your browser. So I would Use 5411k ftp://dutton.dynip.com as my ftp site location. And our user and password would be anonymous. You can also right-click on the song and select (copy shortcut) from the menu in IE or (Save link as) if you are using Netscape. The ftp address will be copied to clipboard, which you can later paste in Leapftp.

There are many ftp search engines on the Internet. You can find some in our Mp3 Search section. When using any of them you should follow the principals you learned here on this page.

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