Not "Songbunny" because "Songrabbit" quickly read can also be read as "Song Grabbit." Clever.
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
#102I remember someone once posted about running one of these lyrics sites. I can't remember if I found it here or elsewhere.
Anyway, their point was that with a lyrics website, someone only wants to go to the website to find the lyrics. Once they have the lyrics they have no desire to look at other other lyrics - they arrive and then leave/bounce immediately. That is why the adverts on these sites are so spammy. They have to hammer you with adverts in that brief moment you are on the website, because you are not going to click through and engage with the site anywhere else. Also, since you probably don't even know what website you are on, you don't have any "lyric website loyalty", so it doesn't even matter if the ads are massively spammy.
I guess then the challenge is to make a website that somehow encourages engagement so the it doesn't have to be so spammy.
Re: Show HN: We made a spam-free lyric search engine
#103Back 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…
How did you deal with copyright?
Labels don't hold copyright on the lyrics or any other part of the lyrics, tablature. Labels only hold copyright to the original recordings.
We didn't have a relationship with the publishers for our artists, as this is a separate deal that the artists make with other companies.
All we did was ask the publishing companies involved (i.e. Sony ATV - http://www.sonyatv.com/en-uk/ and EMI Music Publishing - http://www.emimusicpub.com/ ) whether we could reproduce user-contributed interpretations of lyrics.
Both of the publishing companies involved said yes, as from their perspective anything that helped promote the song and would increase the awareness of the song and therefore the likelihood of the song being used in advertising, film or other contexts was good for them. They also liked that we didn't reproduce official tablature as that recommended that product of theirs too.
So, we asked, and everyone said yes.
If you don't ask, your first interaction is probably going to be with their legal teams who are less inclined to even think yes.
Re: Show HN: We made a spam-free lyric search engine
#104That feels oddly strange on a lyrics site. To not being bombarded with Google Ads left, right & center!
Thanks for the clean interface.
Re: Show HN: We made a spam-free lyric search engine
#105Super 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?
> Changing the URL would be nice for linking.
Another problem is that the back button is broken.
Re: Show HN: We made a spam-free lyric search engine
#106Earlier 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.
http://www.instalyrics.com exists
As does http://rapgenius.com for hip hop
I built my own at http://new.songvoodoo.com as well, so other sites do exist
Re: Show HN: We made a spam-free lyric search engine
#107I remember someone once posted about running one of these lyrics sites. I can't remember if I found it here or elsewhere. Anyway, their point was that with a lyrics website, someone only wants to go to the website to find the lyrics. Once they have the lyrics they have no desire to look at other other lyrics - they arrive and then leave/bounce immediately. That is why the adverts on these sites are so spammy. They ha…
But, as a user, I don't want to engage with a lyrics site anymore than it's required to read/copy the lyrics. Simple information retrieval. Also, as a user I tend to remember which lyrics websites are more spammy than others and avoid them when doing Google search.
I guess then it is a challenge to monetize lyrics website, but someone would do a big service to humanity if he/she put lyrics on Wikipedia/Wikibooks-type website.
Re: Show HN: We made a spam-free lyric search engine
#108Don't people use google for this?
And then go to one of many ugly, spammy websites, looking like sh*t and sometimes with unreliable lyrics. I appreciate an alternative, and I'll be definitely using it from now on.
Re: Show HN: We made a spam-free lyric search engine
#109A few things:
1) I just tried a query (weezer "buddy holly") that had worked a couple of days ago but didn't now (it didn't work with quotes, either).
2) I miss the back button and, as others have said, the ability to bookmark anything
3) It would be nice to see the song title on the lyrics page. I know it's sometimes still in the search box, but I do miss it if I've changed my search (or if I just searched by artist).
Re: Show HN: We made a spam-free lyric search engine
#110It's great, and I'll definitely be using it!
Please add a GET-param based search, e.g. http://songrabbit.com/search?q=sabaton+primo+victoria (BTW., no results :(), so that we could add it to browsers as webjumps/quick searches/however it's called - e.g. so that I could type just: 'l sabaton primo victoria', and the browser would take me to your site :).