Search the Internet for Music with Clickster

One of the great benefits of the internet is that more information, arts and culture have become freely available. But if the RIAA has its way, it’ll be less of the “free” thank you very much as music artists slowly come to terms with the fact that the CD is dying a slow death and most people get their music these days by illegally downloading it. You may not like that fact but nevertheless it’s still a fact of life, along with death and taxes.

I hesitated a great deal before writing this article because I was struggling to grapple the legal logic behind the idea of Clickster (to view it, go to the site and scroll to the bottom of the page). After going over and over it, I am not convinced and I will probably never use Clickster as a result (me being a solid upstanding man of the law and all ). However, Make Use Of is still a public service and we try to cater to everyone - even the music downloaders in the world.

Clickster is a software program which uses already well-known search algorithims to look for music stored on peoples unprotected website directories. It just takes those search algorithims and gives you an aesthetically-pleasing interface to find and download the music you are looking for.

All you have to do is enter the name of the artist and / or the song and Clickster quickly sends its bots throughout the net looking in website directories which are not password-protected to see who has a copy of the song you are looking for. You will then get the results and you can click on the ones you are interested in.

From what I can make out, it seems there is an embeddable MP3 player inside the application so you can listen to the song without downloading it. You can also get the full URL to the song if you want to link to it on a webpage. You can even embed a playlist on a webpage (see screenshot).

As I said, I’m not passing judgment on the rights and wrongs of the software. If you use it, you use it at your own risk. If you are interested in other alternatives head to previouslly posted 7 Websites That Make MP3 Downloads Easy.

(By) Mark O’Neill is a blogger and professional freelance writer. Check out his blog at BetterThanTherapy.net

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