## Searching the Internet for a Certain MIDI File

Instructions are on another page.
Roughly listed in order of usefulness.
MIDI Explorer
Limit
Enter as many letters as you like. Filenames that start with these letters will be found. Alta Vista - My Favorite Search Formula
Visit un-cluttered pages, by avoiding those with ads from well-known advertisers. Alta Vista - Use this if the one above doesn't get results.

### The search results are in bulky table formatting, so these are slower

Scour Net - Gives direct links to .mid files Rudenko
Infoseek Lycos

### Search FTP Sites

www.filez.com 's FTP Search
Enter the file name or partial file name of a MIDI file.

### These require re-connecting with the search engines' servers, so are slower

Hot Bot
Exclude:
File Extensions:
real.snap.com

### Other Good Places to Search

- SearchMIDI - WK's MIDI File Collection - Over 16,000 MIDI Files
- SearchMIDI - Terry Herman 's MIDINet - Popular Music
- Standard MIDI Files on the Net - The List of Sites with MIDI Files.
- MIDI Index
- Search MIDI Farm's Collection
- news:alt.binaries.sounds.midi
  If you can't find it elsewhere, then make a request to this group with the subject "REQ: Song_title" ("Song_title" being the title of the song which you want).

### Maybe Too Outdated to Be Useful

Zodchiy Note (July 12, 1999): The database seems to be outdated, resulting in lots of NOT FOUND errors. (laurasmidiheaven.com, etc.) Zodchiy MIDI Search (midi.zodchiy.ru)

The latest version of this page is located at:
http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~ckelly/midi/help/midi-search.html
Last modified: July 12, 1999

Purposely kept simple to keep the filesize small, thus fast to download.

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