# these ftp mp3 sites are driving me crazy!!!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-ftp-mp3-sites-are-driving-me-crazy/7659
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [September 11, 1999, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-ftp-mp3-sites-are-driving-me-crazy/7659 "1999-09-11T03:54:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 11, 1999, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-ftp-mp3-sites-are-driving-me-crazy/7659/1 "1999-09-11T03:54:00Z")
I wanted to get some free mp3 over the net. The http sites just dont have the range of songs which I want. So, I tried out these ftp sites. I ahve been trying for the past 2 hours!!! I still ahvent got a sing song so far!!!
I keep getting too many users logged or connection refused messages. My question is when can I possibly get connected.
I **DID** get thru once. Uploaded a 5MB song only to find the ##!@#!@#%@ server had logged out after that.
This experience has been very frustrating!!!
Your intrepidly
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### Author:  [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 11, 1999, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-ftp-mp3-sites-are-driving-me-crazy/7659/2 "1999-09-11T03:57:00Z")
To the idiot whos going to point my typos, up yours!!
I just dont have the patience to do that.
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### Author:  [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)
#### Post date: [September 11, 1999, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-ftp-mp3-sites-are-driving-me-crazy/7659/3 "1999-09-11T04:01:00Z")
Veera,
I like your pro-active flaming- very funny!
I have had the same experiences with MP3…all the music is awful- and they take forever and ever to download- the servers are too busy…
If anyone knows of reliable MP3 sites, post 'em here for us frustrated MP3 newbies…
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### Author:  [@topolino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/topolino)
#### Post date: [September 11, 1999, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-ftp-mp3-sites-are-driving-me-crazy/7659/4 "1999-09-11T04:07:00Z")
Check out Napster
[http://www.napster.com](http://www.napster.com)
It’s not an FTP site but you might like it
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### Author:  [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 11, 1999, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-ftp-mp3-sites-are-driving-me-crazy/7659/5 "1999-09-11T04:07:00Z")
Zette,
About my pro-active-flaming, I have had some experiences with some idiot telling me since I dont check for typos, I lose my credibility.
Still trying his best to logon to some, any, mp3 ftp site with Bring it on Home or Elegantly wasted,
Veera.
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### Author:  [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)
#### Post date: [September 11, 1999, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-ftp-mp3-sites-are-driving-me-crazy/7659/6 "1999-09-11T04:10:00Z")
I make my own, using my cd’s and a program to encode them, i have a few friends and we trade, and I have about 10 GB worth
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Don’t let the loveless ones sell you a world wrapped in grey.
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### Author:  [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)
#### Post date: [September 11, 1999, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-ftp-mp3-sites-are-driving-me-crazy/7659/7 "1999-09-11T04:19:00Z")
Vera! Vera!
What has become of you?
Does anybody else here
Feel the way I do?
Veera- I understand about your proactive flaming- it just cracked me up- I’m in a strange mood tonight 😉
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An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; A pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
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### Author:  [@Astroglide](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroglide)
#### Post date: [September 11, 1999, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-ftp-mp3-sites-are-driving-me-crazy/7659/8 "1999-09-11T09:16:00Z")
Try IRC. Get mIRC (Win95/98) and a mp3 script. I have had much better results on DalNet (and others) than the ftp servers (or http servers).
BTW, as a general rule I have found IRC to be a superior source of mp3z, warez, and porn.
Not that I condone that sort of thing.
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### Author:  [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)
#### Post date: [September 11, 1999, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-ftp-mp3-sites-are-driving-me-crazy/7659/9 "1999-09-11T13:13:00Z")
Maybe CuteFTP?
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### Author:  [@lovelee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lovelee)
#### Post date: [September 12, 1999, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-ftp-mp3-sites-are-driving-me-crazy/7659/10 "1999-09-12T05:16:00Z")
I always use
[http://oth.net](http://oth.net)
You type in a few words and it spits back out a list of ftp sites, and you can select either direct links or text, which you can copy and paste to your favorite ftp client.
So far, so good… I have many I’m very happy with - including the Pokerap! Gotta catch 'em all, gotta catch 'em all! (Yes, I’m sad. Even sadder, I’m planning on getting the entire thing on DVD. And I have no kids, it’s just for me.)
lovelee
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### Author:  [@Undead\_Dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Undead_Dude)
#### Post date: [September 12, 1999, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-ftp-mp3-sites-are-driving-me-crazy/7659/11 "1999-09-12T07:22:00Z")
Personally, I prefer newsgroups.
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3
and
alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.\*
hundreds of megs flow through those a day
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### Author:  [@Diane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diane)
#### Post date: [September 12, 1999, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/these-ftp-mp3-sites-are-driving-me-crazy/7659/12 "1999-09-12T13:57:00Z")
> [@](#):
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> I **ahve** been trying for the past 2 hours!!! I still **ahvent**
## Ummmmmmm, that would be **have** and **haven’t.** :::efg:::
\>^,^\<
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