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Back in 2006, the cover was lifted on the version of Metafilter Music we all know and love! I wanted to wish it happy birthday, and post a torrent for the songs from 2013! [more inside]
posted by Pronoiac on Jun 29, 2014 - 23 comments

There is so much music here. Here's the annual torrent of all the songs from Metafilter Music, gathering everything from 2012. There were 558 songs, taking up 3.1 gigabytes. Massive, massive props to all the musicians who shared their music! Check it out, and remember, the song threads never close, so if you find a song you love, please drop by and let the artists know! [more inside]
posted by Pronoiac on Jan 21, 2013 - 23 comments

In October 2010, we posted a torrent of all of Metafilter Music. Here's an update, a torrent of Mefi Music songs from 2011 - 648 songs, 3.5 gigabytes. Share & enjoy, everybody! [more inside]
posted by Pronoiac on Feb 6, 2012 - 28 comments

As a followup to not_on_display's requesting a way to download all of the Metafilter Music songs last month: a torrent is now available. [more inside]
posted by Pronoiac on Oct 11, 2010 - 74 comments

A while back, I tried to set my Flashgot Firefox plug-in to download all of the files with the address music.metafilter.com/​music/​*.mp3, only to find that FlashGot doesn't like wildcards, only ranges (i.e. [a-z], [1...1000], etc.). But I really would like to have a quick easy way to suck all of this music onto my iPod. Dear AskMeTa, [more inside]
posted by not_on_display on Sep 8, 2010 - 34 comments

Maybe there's a memo I missed, but what happened to the mefi music download links? I just get the flash player now.
posted by jaduncan on Nov 12, 2009 - 36 comments

I noticed that the download icon in Mefi Music vanished when I logged out. Is this intentional (to cut down bandwidth demands)?

The dl links go to a straightforward .mp3 files, though, so I'm assuming that you could link to one of those (on your blog, say) and a non-member could download a song by clicking on the link. But would that be wrong?
posted by nanojath on Jul 4, 2006 - 10 comments