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Re: Show HN: We made a spam-free lyric search engine

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Post by stoph » Mon, Aug 29, 2011, 6:03 AM UTC

asmallgrin wrote: post #24

Khroma wrote: post #21

Super cool, I enjoy the clean interface. Changing the URL would be nice for linking. Lyric sites are pretty bad ATM. How do you plan to get revenue, if there are no ads?

we are currently working on a hash based linking system.

I would encourage you to consider sending people to a completely new URL instead of loading the lyrics with Ajax, unless the browser supports the HTML5 History API.

That way, people who use modern browsers get the original user experience, but those who use legacy browsers have to see a quick refresh. Your site is so clean already that I doubt most IE users would notice the load time.

As an alternative, support hashes and the history API so most people see the "clean" URLs.

Re: Show HN: We made a spam-free lyric search engine

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Post by johnx123-up » Mon, Aug 29, 2011, 6:22 AM UTC

Nice. I once used LyricsAMP and that was fantastic (right now it's dead)

Re: Show HN: We made a spam-free lyric search engine

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Post by martinkallstrom » Mon, Aug 29, 2011, 6:57 AM UTC

I like the idea of allowing users to personalize the slogan under your rabbit logo. Was it put there on a whim or is there an elaborate theory behind it?

Re: Show HN: We made a spam-free lyric search engine

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Post by maxciociola » Mon, Aug 29, 2011, 10:16 AM UTC

buro9 wrote: post #93

Back in 1997 when I and three others ran a record label called Jeepster, we had a few great bands on our label: Belle & Sebastian, Salako and Snow Patrol. (OK, Snow Patrol were less than great then, and perhaps now.) One of the things I figured I should make was a web site in which fans were able to communicate with each other, the theory was simply that: 1) If fans kept the interest high between releases they'd be t…

In 2009 me and a couple of friends after being so amazed about Lyrics traffic thought the market was missing 3 main things:

1) a Worldwide licensing structure for anyone that wanted to work in the lyrics space

2) a Huge Lyrics DB properly matched with recording information (people search for artist's name + lyrics on google not the songwriter...)

3) An API

So we founded musiXmatch in late 2009 with the idea of helping anyone in the space but most of all : build the best experience around Lyrics.

Actually musiXmatch is The world's largest and Official Lyrics DB with worldwide agreement with all Top Music Publishers and +5,5 mln lyrics DB.

So now thanks to musiXmatch you don't need to deal with music publishers anymore .

Get a Lyrics API now > developer.musixmatch.com

Best, massimo

CEO & Founder musiXmatch

Re: Show HN: We made a spam-free lyric search engine

#145

Post by maxciociola » Mon, Aug 29, 2011, 10:21 AM UTC

azylman wrote: post #124

morsch wrote: post #19

Lots of AJAX with no state in the url. Means I can't send my friends to a search results page (bad) or to a lyrics page (worse).

Second this. It also means I can't set up a quick search in Chrome. That's the only thing preventing me from using this all the time.

have you tried our Lyrics API developer.musixmatch.com ?

Re: Show HN: We made a spam-free lyric search engine

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Post by maxciociola » Mon, Aug 29, 2011, 10:22 AM UTC

irfn wrote: post #40

HaloZero wrote: post #22

What's wrong with http://lyrics.wikia.com/Main_Page ? (I really should have posted this as reply to when you mention there are no spam free lyric search engines)

well.. http://www.songrabbit.com/ is ad free :)

take a look at www.instalyrics.com much better experience . sorry ;-(

Re: Show HN: We made a spam-free lyric search engine

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Post by maxciociola » Mon, Aug 29, 2011, 10:26 AM UTC

iamdave wrote: post #2

FINALLY!! Thank you so much for this. Is there a search API?

here we go your search api

https://developer.musixmatch.com/documentation

Re: Show HN: We made a spam-free lyric search engine

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Post by songrabbit » Mon, Aug 29, 2011, 1:39 PM UTC

tm65atcolumbia wrote: post #137

songrabbit wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not yet - this was literally built over the last two days. But we could make one!

Awesome. I'd like to be notified. Got a mailing list?

Just shoot an email to songrabbit@songrabbit.com and we'll let you know once its up.

Re: Show HN: We made a spam-free lyric search engine

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Post by rosariom » Mon, Aug 29, 2011, 5:08 PM UTC

what technologies/architecture you guys use behind the scenes to power this site? pretty damn cool site by the way :)

Re: Show HN: We made a spam-free lyric search engine

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Post by streptomycin » Mon, Aug 29, 2011, 6:20 PM UTC

alanh wrote: post #135

streptomycin wrote: post #120

If this was remotely legal, Google would have done it 10 years ago.

> If this was remotely legal, Google would have done it 10 years ago. While legal issues may be the reason Google didn’t do this, it is hardly possibility. I don’t see value in a comment like this. If you have more information or insider knowledge, share it.

Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, whoever. It's a massive and lucrative market, yet the legal challenges are well established. Some sites have been shut down, and the remaining big sites are outside of US jurisdiction and/or really really shady.

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