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How to Get Music on Baidu in English
Author: Demerzel20 Mar
Baidu is quite well known in China as being the place to get free mp3s by just searching for songs at mp3.baidu.com and then downloading the song from the respective website. Now, this can be done still in Google with some advanced search commands (eg: filetype:mp3 aerosmith), but what could be done for Baidu specifically?
A search for “Linkin Park” (without quotes) elicits the following (click to expand):
However, if you know a few Chinese phrases–such as the word for song (歌), then the search suddenly changes. Change the phrase to “Linkin Park歌” (once again without quotes) and now you get the following (click to expand):
Click on “试听” and now you have the website showing up along with the ability to hear the song as well.
So much for trying to hide those songs to English speakers.
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