Follow Up: Downloading albums

Just want to clear a few things up from the “Download any album you want” article.

For starters, say you find an album my using the search method in the article above. So you get a rapidshare or megaupload link, you download it, and when you go to extract the rar, you find there’s a password. This shouldn’t discourage you. What you then want to do is google the rapidshare link, or the file name (in quotation marks if there are any spaces). This will then bring you to the page that you originally downloaded the file from. On this page somewhere, posters of the rar usually put the password somewhere, likely under something like “Pass:[the password]“. If you’re having trouble finding a password to an rar’d folder, don;t give up yet. The password may be somewhere in the file name. For example, if the name of the file is “BTBAM_Colors_www.albumdlforum.com.rar” most likely the password is going to be the name of the website or user that had uploaded it (in that case I would try “www.albumdlforum.com”).

If the name of the file is “mchammer-greatest_hits_uploaded_by_mikej.rar”, I would suggest trying “mikej” as the password. If you cannot find the password, there are password finders made for rar files, but they might take a while, so just get back to googling for another link because chances are there’s another file out there to your liking.

I also wanted to stress the importance of staying clear from any sites, such as megaupload search engines that are powered by zango. These search sites are full of spyware and other harms, so I would stay clear of them and try to find an rar file on your own. With that in mind, always use Firefox as your browser (should be your browser of choice already for Windows users), as this will help a TON with keeping your computer spyware-free. For more info on how to stay clear/clean spyware, check out this article.

If you stumble across a forum site that uploads music, and you find an endless amount of rapidshare links, I would also suggest shelling out the 9 bucks for a premium account. This gives you a limit of 25 GB of downloads per month and no stupid wait period. You can also get free rapidshare accounts by uploading, so if you have a vast collection to share, start uploading with the uploader account, and depending on how many dl’s you get (you need a lot) you can score a free account. Any questions just comment. Happy downloading!