I got a few great mp3’s from a random blog at some point in the past year. I love the songs, but even their metadata doesn’t contain any information about the artist or the mp3 blog or anything.
They’re clearly recordings from 78’s with names like “diane.mp3” and so on. “Diane,” for example, is a great noirish organ and saxophone piece with some light brushed drums in the distant background.
More than anything, I’d like to find the blog and read the original entry that had these things so that I can find out more about them. I barely recall reading it.
What can I do short of searching “diane.mp3” and “blog” and “78” and so on in google and hoping for a hit?
If you can pick out some of the lyrics, Google them (in quotes) followed by the word lyrics. I’ve found a number of songs that way (though none as old as what it sounds like you have).
I posted a mystery mp3 to Ask Metafilter and got the answer. (It was an incomplete mp3, to boot, and someone sent me a link to re-download it from his collection.) I uploaded the mp3 to my personal webspace and posted the link for people to listen to it.
Sorry, I always figure my favourite websites are fairly well-known. Ask Metafilter is an offshoot of Metafilter, which is “a weblog that anyone can contribute a link or a comment to. A typical weblog is one person posting their thoughts on the unique things they find on the web. This website exists to break down the barriers between people, to extend a weblog beyond just one person, and to foster discussion among its members.”
Ask Metafilter is where members post and answer questions, which are on a dizzying array of topics. I love it and read it daily.