Searching the Internet For a Certain MIDI File
NOTE: The above form is specially formatted for MIDI searches. If you are searching for something OTHER than a MIDI file, do not use this form. Just click on one of the search engines below and enter your search parameters in their search form.
How to Search Alta Vista Using This Form
- Put the title of the tune you are looking for in place of "maple leaf". Keep the quotes.
- Incomplete tune names will give you more links (ie. "maple leaf" instead of "maple leaf rag")
- All lower-case will give you more links.
- Since some pages with MIDI files only give filenames and not tune names, also try abbreviated forms. (ie. "maple", "mapleaf", "mplleaf", etc.)
- Note that this will only search for .mid files. To also search for .zip files, replace the search string with this.
"maple leaf" AND (link:zip OR link:mid)
With this search string, you'll possibly also get pages offering ZIP files, which are not ZIP files of MIDI files.- Note that this will only search web pages and not FTP sites which also have large collections of MIDI files. Use filez.com to search FTP sites.
Other WWW Search Engines You Can Use
If you can't find it with these, It probably doesn't exist!
- Visit all registered sites with Standard MIDI Files on the Net
This comprehensive list of sites also has 'search pages'.
- Make a request on news:alt.binaries.sounds.midi
Use the subject "REQ: Song_title" ("Song_title" being the title of the song which you want).
If you plan to use this page again, save it as HTML (save as "source" with Netscape), and use "Open File..." to access it from your own computer.
The author acknowledges that the original source code for this page was adapted from:
Standard Midi Files on The Net and Midi Mania
The Ragtime Midi Libraries of John E. Roache, Send EMAIL
Last modified: March 29, 1997