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

Maybe Too Outdated to Be Useful

Zodchiy Note (July 12, 1999): The database seems to be outdated, resulting in lots of NOT FOUND errors.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.

Please do not copy this page and put it on your server. It is acceptable, however, to "save it as source" to your own personal computer and use it from there as long as you don't put it online.