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Free Music Downloads For Phones

Thursday, 7. February 2008, 17:56:57

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Fank is one of the essential sites for mobile users. It contains hundreds of MP3 tracks all available for free download. Of course I'd never encourage anyone to download things they don't already own as that would be illegal. But for those of us who don't have a PC it's a great site for putting our music on our phones.

In fact there's only one real problem with Fank, and that is that the entire site is in Russian so most people give up before they've started. That's why I decided to put together a little tutorial for people.


There are eight screenshots in this post so it may be pretty large to load for phone users.


1) Enter the name of the band that you're looking for in the text box and click the link below.


2) On the search results screen, click the name of the band that you're hunting for.


3) This will bring up a list of the albums by that band that are available on the site. Choose which album you want by clicking the name.


4) This will take you to a list of the songs on that album. Choose which song you wish to download.


5) Now we're at the quality screen. Basically the higher the size of the download, the better the quality of the song. I usually choose the highest myself but it all comes down to how much you pay for data and how much space you have on your device.


6) Now to prove you're human and not a computer trying to mess with the site. There's an image of a number above a text box. Just copy the number into the box and click the link below it.


7) Et voila, it's starting to download. Depending on your phone you may have to agree to download.


8) Once the song has downloaded and been saved you can enjoy it at any time while on the move.

Thank Fank for that eh? By the way, you can get to Fank by following this lovely little link. It'll take you to the place on the first screenshot.

Remember, it is illegal to download something that you don't already own. Hell, in some places it's illegal to back up things you do own, but that's a stupid law so I refuse to put it in bold.
:headbang:

N-Gage First AccessChainsaw Charlie

Comments

allangie 7. February 2008, 19:06

How come I've never heard about such a useful source :confused:

theoddbod 7. February 2008, 20:39

Cool site :up:

Is it your phone or the screenshot program that doesn't recognise the russian alphabet?

Furie 7. February 2008, 20:45

It's Opera Mini. I usually have it on the smallest font available and the extended alphabets just come up as boxes. Besides, it illustrates just how easy it really is to use the site, even when you can't read the words.

I guess the russian language barrier isn't a problem for you eh Alla? :lol:

theoddbod 7. February 2008, 20:51

It displays the russian on Mini for me. Download speed is pretty slow, though - a meagre 5k a second :frown:. I think my phone's doing its WAP impression again :irked:.

Furie 7. February 2008, 21:22

You using Mini 3 with the smallest font setting?

theoddbod 7. February 2008, 21:31

No, Mini 4 on Medium. I haven't used 3.1 for a while.

allangie 7. February 2008, 21:41

No, Mik, I have no language barrier when it comes down to russian p: I'm pretty fluent in it :lol: Can't get used to OM4, still prefer the 3rd...

Spaggyj 7. February 2008, 21:48

I'm with you Alla. I like 3 much better.

allangie 7. February 2008, 22:44

:happy: I have them both. But stick with #3

Spaggyj 7. February 2008, 22:54

Me too. And me too :lol:

allangie 7. February 2008, 22:57

:up::yes:

theoddbod 7. February 2008, 23:02

Are there any other sites like this? I'm finding about one song in ten that I look for.

Cois 7. February 2008, 23:04

I usually use my phone browser for downloads.. very slow.. the link I have takes you straight to a alphabetical list.. haven't tried it on mini yet..

Furie 7. February 2008, 23:49

There used to be a few sites like this but a load of them have gone down in the past few years. If I find any more I'll link to them.

Cois 8. February 2008, 00:01

I just checked it.. its about the same.. just looks different on mini is my guess..

shigen 20. June 2008, 23:58

...It won't worrrrrrkkkkkkkkkk!!!!!!!!!!1

:cries uncontrollably:

:mumbles:

.............Sex Pistols.......

:cry:

Help? PLEASE?! Lol.

theoddbod 21. June 2008, 00:21

Define 'won't work'. Sometimes the search isn't working at all, but i just searched for 'sex pistols' and it's fine currently.
Also the search is a 'starts with' search for some reason. A search for 'queen' will show results for 'queens of the stone age', a search for 'stone' won't find them.

theoddbod 21. June 2008, 00:21

I hope you have a good data plan for your phone, by the way.

Furie 21. June 2008, 02:08

It's for her PC I think.

theoddbod 21. June 2008, 10:34

She's trying fank.ru from her PC? It won't let you, unless you use Opera Mini and the emulator.

shigen 16. July 2008, 16:06

...Oh.

.........Then THAT'S why...

:cry::cry::cry:

theoddbod 16. July 2008, 22:23

Actually, I've since tried from the PC via the emulator and it doesn't work there either - the emulator hasn't emulated file system access yet Homer: Doh!.

shigen 16. July 2008, 22:25

Lolz!!!

Well, THIS sucks...

And I still want that song Cruel, though...

:draws lines in sand:

Furie 16. July 2008, 22:48

Give me the song title and the band name (check your spelling on both) and I'll mail it you if I can find it.

shigen 16. July 2008, 22:56

SWEET!!!

Cruel by Public Image Ltd.

shigen 16. July 2008, 22:59

Pleassse tell me if you can get it, though...

Becuase if not then I'll be waiting for that email until the end of time. :lol:

Furie 16. July 2008, 22:59

Okay, I'll check it out later on.

shigen 16. July 2008, 23:00

THANKYUUUU!!!!!

:love:

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