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I never thought to try Anna's for sheet music publications, thanks for the suggestion. I haven't met a musician who didn't torrent or use soulseek or burn CDs for the friends or make tapes in the old days. The Real Book came from people transcribing standards by ear and sharing with buddies and band mates until it became legal. What happened to that? There has to be some secret underground private tracker that only the initiated disciples of Euterpes are allowed access.
I just searched three relevant private sites I'm a member of that are quite music focused. None of them had much sheet music. The recommendations I found were Myanonamouse and Audionews. I am not a member of either so I cannot vouch, but perhaps this is a place to start your quest.
Does anyone have a source for sheet music? I've been looking every now and then for nearly two decades and somehow no one cares about sharing sheet music. The best I could find is MuseScore but I was late to the party. A while back when that Tantacrul guy bought it they locked copyrighted arrangements behind a paywall. There was a weird Chinese-made downloader from Github that may have worked at one point in time but no matter what I'd get nothing. So MuseScore seems dead. Even IMSLP, consisting of public domain works, makes you jump through a trillion hoops to prove you're not a bot. I'm begging you Kiwi bros, can any of you find me a decent source of sheet music to pirate? I'm specifically looking for jazz band score arrangements and any arrangements of pop and video game music. Those books by Hal Leonard or whatever are always just shitty piano parts and I was hoping there was some secret source of arrangements made for full bands/orchestras.
Whoa that archive is pretty great for my pop needs, thanks. They're not arranged for orchestra or band but I'll take it and do it myself. I had no idea there were songbooks for France Gall of all people. IMSLP is very nice but they make it very difficult to download PDFs and it's a pain to spend 20 minutes comparing and contrasting scores. I wish they offered their collection as a torrent but since it's an international project lots of countries have different definitions of public domain. Do you think it's possible to scrape IMSLP even with their anti-bot protection?
yt-dlp continues to thwart Youtube's endless attempts to detect and block it, and Youtube is owned by a corporation valued in the double-digit billions.
Anything is possible when you're pissed enough and your opponent is arrogant enough.
Whoa that archive is pretty great for my pop needs, thanks. They're not arranged for orchestra or band but I'll take it and do it myself. I had no idea there were songbooks for France Gall of all people. IMSLP is very nice but they make it very difficult to download PDFs and it's a pain to spend 20 minutes comparing and contrasting scores. I wish they offered their collection as a torrent but since it's an international project lots of countries have different definitions of public domain. Do you think it's possible to scrape IMSLP even with their anti-bot protection?
probably some wget magic you could work.
follow up: i asked the world wide gangster computer cat and this is what it said
Using wget directly to scrape IMSLP for PDFs is technically possible but highly problematic and likely violates their terms of service. Here's the technical reality: IMSLP Architecture:
Built on MediaWiki with URLs like /wiki/Title
PDF links point through download.php?file=... or direct paths under /files/
PDFs are stored in structured directories but not publicly indexable as a simple directory listing
Why wget alone won't work well:
robots.txt restrictions: IMSLP explicitly disallows bulk automated access in their robots.txt, requiring crawlers to respect crawl delays (typically 5+ seconds)
Dynamic content: The PDF URLs aren't static - they're generated through the download script based on file IDs
Rate limiting: Aggressive scraping will get your IP blocked quickly
Navigation complexity: You'd need to parse every composer page → work page → score page → extract the PDF link, which requires full HTML parsing
Better technical approaches:
Option 1: MediaWiki API (Recommended)
<span><span># Get all pages for a category</span><span><br></span></span><span><span></span><span>curl</span><span> </span><span>"https://imslp.org/api/rest_v1/page/category/Pages:_Public_Domain"</span><span> </span><span>|</span><span> jq </span><span>'.items[]'</span><span> </span><span>|</span><span> </span><span>while</span><span> </span><span>read</span><span> item</span><span>;</span><span> </span><span>do</span><span><br></span></span><span><span> </span><span>curl</span><span> </span><span>"https://imslp.org/w/api.php?action=query&titles=</span><span>${item}</span><span>&format=json&prop=revisions&rvprop=content"</span><span> </span><span>|</span><span> </span><span>\</span><span><br></span></span><span><span> </span><span>grep</span><span> -o </span><span>'download\.php\?file=[^"&]*'</span><span> </span><span>|</span><span> </span><span>sed</span><span> </span><span>'s/^/https/\/imslp.org\/wiki\//'</span><span><br></span></span><span><span></span><span>done</span></span> Option 2: Limited wget with proper constraints
Only works in public domain in Canada may be downloaded legally
Your IP will likely be banned after moderate volume
The site may implement CAPTCHAs or other anti-bot measures
Legitimate alternative:Use the IMSLP MediaWiki API to programmatically retrieve metadata and construct proper download URLs. This respects their rate limits and is the intended method for programmatic access.
If you proceed anyway:
Implement exponential backoff on 429/503 responses
Add random delays between requests (5-15 seconds)
Use a legitimate User-Agent string
Respect any error messages about rate limiting
Consider that this could result in permanent IP bans
The most reliable approach is to check if there's an existing tool like the jlumbroso/imslp project that already handles the API interactions properly.
"Man I love destroying repositories of knowledge for the sake of a few extra Shekels because I don't realize that people who pirate books probably weren't going to or even able to buy them in the first place!"
These same people would probably go after that one Minecraft map that hosts books for people who live in countries that banned said books if it wouldn't be seen in the worst light possible.
I will continue to never buy any book these faggots publish. And if I ever have the chance again, I will again directly undermine any attempt Pearson Education makes to gain any contract or deal with a college or university of any kind, especially concerning their utterly incompetent and shoddy software products.
thank fucking god I can finally finish downloading the 700gb Cops collection. Since i had reformatted my drives to XFS I had to do a major purge a couple weeks ago, and I finally got through my backlog of stuff to redownload
Nothing like seeing this logo only after a title's finished downloading: Ver archivo adjunto 9173464
Can we start penalizing people for trying to preserve Uncork'd Entertainment?
A studio that is incapable of making a good, mediocre, or even laughably bad film. They have learned to bend time - 90 minutes of an Uncork'd film feels like 3 hours. You could give them an Oscar-winning cast and crew and they'd still fuck it up. I discovered them via the "purchase" option on RedBox machines.
Having a hard time getting into Z-Lib, and Anna's while it is working I've had two different mirrors on two different books just time out. Could be nothing, could be glowniggers.
I am using downloading more like streaming with plex and download in sequential order at the moment. I honestly always thought HD prices would just keep moving down but they're actually fucking cooked right now. Hard times, upon Hoarders, hard times
I am using downloading more like streaming with plex and download in sequential order at the moment. I honestly always thought HD prices would just keep moving down but they're actually fucking cooked right now. Hard times, upon Hoarders, hard times
/\/imslp.org\/wiki\//'</span><span><br></span></span><span><span></span><span>done</span></span>
