Snippets would be good too (as Google etc does) to confirm you have the right song
Show HN: We made a spam-free lyric search engine
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Re: Show HN: We made a spam-free lyric search engine
#52Re: Show HN: We made a spam-free lyric search engine
#53I 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
#54How about moving the logo, search box, and nav to the side when showing lyrics so that I don't have to scroll so far down below the fold to read what I searched for? Snippets would be good too (as Google etc does) to confirm you have the right song
A couple people have suggested snippets, would you prefer the first lyrics of the song or somewhere in the middle?
Re: Show HN: We made a spam-free lyric search engine
#55Maybe add a way for users to submit new lyrics? I don't know any of the legal implications.
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#57Re: Show HN: We made a spam-free lyric search engine
#58How about moving the logo, search box, and nav to the side when showing lyrics so that I don't have to scroll so far down below the fold to read what I searched for? Snippets would be good too (as Google etc does) to confirm you have the right song
We've experimented with a couple different interfaces once the lyrics are onscreen, but that sounds like it could work. A couple people have suggested snippets, would you prefer the first lyrics of the song or somewhere in the middle?
Re: Show HN: We made a spam-free lyric search engine
#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's okay, for now this just exists as a solution to the problem that no lyric sites exist which are not aggressively bad. Though, we might contend that a large amount of traffic comes from the long-tail search because there is no site worth going to - ie it doesn't matter which lyric site I use, so I might as well just google it.
http://lystener.com/ exists. There must be a reason why these clean lyrics sites aren't more prominent.
Re: Show HN: We made a spam-free lyric search engine
#60According to the legal, you are not storing the lyrics. If that is the case, where are you sourcing them from? Can you give a little background on how the site works, what it runs on and other interesting details?