I have been running the wget script we wrote about several months ago and I am amazed at the number of songs we are pulling down. Many are from artist I have never heard. Some are from cover bans and their re-makes of popular music along with music that has been ripped from a copyrighted CD. Thus far though it has been a interesting experiment in checking out all the new tunes. I am sure my Internet provider is happy with me as the run today pulled 1.6 gigs of music simply amazing.
Here are the sites I poll and if you have any other MP3 weblogs that you know about drop me a line.
http://senses.typepad.com/
http://www.3hive.com/
http://www.christopherporter.com/
http://ggth.typepad.com/media/mp3_blogs/index.html
http://djmartian.blogspot.com/
http://www.bellybongo.com/links/sharity.html
http://www.free-conversant.com/thom/main/2004/05/26
http://musik.antville.org/stories/676094/
http://teachingtheindiekidstodanceagain.blogspot.com/
http://www.fatplanet.com.au/
http://music.for-robots.com/
http://tofuhut.blogspot.com/
http://www.scenestars.blogspot.com/
http://blog.largeheartedboy.com/
http://www.livejournal.com/community/talkiewalkie/
http://www.kingblind.com/
http://www.mobile-phone-directory.org/
http://www.redfishaudio.com/samples.html
http://www.purevolume.com/
http://newflux.blogspot.com/
http://www.pop77.com/blog/
http://www.scissorkick.com/
http://amillionlovesongs.blogspot.com/
http://www.moistworks.com/
http://www.o-dub.com/crates/weblog/blogger.html
http://music.for-robots.com/
http://multsanta.madvision.co.uk/blunts//indexb.html
http://tofuhut.blogspot.com/
http://www.tangmonkey.com/blogs/music/
http://copycommaright.blogspot.com/
http://the-big-ticket.blogspot.com/
http://www.livejournal.com/community/talkiewalkie/
http://www.bubblegum-machine.com/culchah.html
http://fingertipsmusic.blogspot.com/
http://www.londonlee.com/blog.html
http://www.mysticalbeast.blogspot.com/
http://www.livejournal.com/users/moebius_rex/
So do you ever bother reading the sites you scrape files from? Or is that pretty much beside the point in your estimation? Some of us put a great deal of effort into that aspect of our blogs, and having you wget boys just vacuum up our files without bothering to check out our content really sucks, pun intended.
I don’t know of a single mp3 blogger who is happy about wget, and many of us are actively seeking ways to block it. If wget (and its inevitable easier-to-use followup apps) take off, the net result may be the death of the mp3 blog phenomenon. Thanks a bunch!