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

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Post by jamesgagan » Sun, Aug 28, 2011, 4:04 AM UTC

looks nice and clean, but i'm pretty sure you need to licence lyrics or you may run into trouble...

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

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Post by songrabbit » Sun, Aug 28, 2011, 4:11 AM UTC

mturmon wrote: post #39

The idea is great. The search responses fail to find a lot of pretty standard songs (girls want to be with the girls fails to return the talking heads song, helicopter fails to return the xtc song, books about ufos fails to return the husker du song, ...). And september gurls returns the bangles cover ...

We are expanding the result pool right now

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

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Post by songrabbit » Sun, Aug 28, 2011, 4:24 AM UTC

karlzt wrote: post #35

fix the typo on http://www.songrabbit.com/legal.php >>an innovative seach interface

Thanks, good catch

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

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Post by officemonkey » Sun, Aug 28, 2011, 4:35 AM UTC

songrabbit wrote: post #42

mturmon wrote: post #39

The idea is great. The search responses fail to find a lot of pretty standard songs (girls want to be with the girls fails to return the talking heads song, helicopter fails to return the xtc song, books about ufos fails to return the husker du song, ...). And september gurls returns the bangles cover ...

We are expanding the result pool right now

Also, other languages than english are pretty much non-existant.

The only ones I had any success with was "Ne me quitte pas" and "la vie en rose." Other Brel and Piaf songs didn't show up. Neither did any Serge Gainsbourg.

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

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Post by tszming » Sun, Aug 28, 2011, 4:41 AM UTC

I doubt you are completely legal (I am not a lawyer anyway), as the contents are delivered via your own API: http://www.songrabbit.com/php/retrieve.php?i=0

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

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Post by GeneTraylor » Sun, Aug 28, 2011, 4:45 AM UTC

I love what you're trying to do, but how will you monetize this? Will you pursue amazon based referrals for songs? (I'm guessing it won't add up unless you have scale) Or will you try to launch a "premium" service?

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

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Post by beaker » Sun, Aug 28, 2011, 4:50 AM UTC

I like the publicly editable tagline, it seems like a fun idea. There was something about sexual relations with bunnies however when I visited the site. Maybe a keyword filter would help?

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

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Post by songrabbit » Sun, Aug 28, 2011, 4:55 AM UTC

tszming wrote: post #45

I doubt you are completely legal (I am not a lawyer anyway), as the contents are delivered via your own API: http://www.songrabbit.com/php/retrieve.php?i=0

That link is dynamic based on your current session, so it may work for you, but if someone hasn't searched for anything then they wont see anything on your link.

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

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Post by songrabbit » Sun, Aug 28, 2011, 4:56 AM UTC

rudle wrote: post #17

You should integrate more sites (assuming that's how this works). A query that I expect to work is "Simeon's Dilemma", which currently returns no results.

This will be deployed post-hurricane

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

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Post by mleonhard » Sun, Aug 28, 2011, 4:58 AM UTC

When showing results, how about showing a snippet of each song where the search terms appear, with the terms hilighted?

Also list the name of the song and the artist. For songs that have been performed by many artists, you could add "Also by AAA, BBB, and CCC."

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