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Automating Downloads from MP3 Blogs

July 13, 2004

Spending too much time downloading all of that tasty music from MP3 blogs? BoingBoing has a bunch of pointers for automating your MP3 blog downloads using wget.

Be sure to follow the various links for more specific information on how to use this with OS X or Windows, tips about other programs that do similar things, and (of course) more MP3 blogs…

At this rate, it shouldn’t be long before the RIAA tries to ban web servers…

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