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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

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Post by cookiecaper »

jarek wrote: post #121
Major_Grooves wrote: post #102

I 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…

Interestingly, after a couple dozen lyric searches, I did develop some lyric website loyalty. I'll still come in via search and leave almost immediately after, but I'll actively look for the sites in search results. Criteria include perceived correctness, readability, and not killing my browser (relative to other sites out there). I also like Songmeanings' comment/user input area, which usually has sensible comments…

+1 for Songmeanings -- the layout is simple and easy to read and the comments generally are interesting.

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

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Post by SwellJoe »

kilian wrote: post #129
SwellJoe wrote: post #79

Add chord charts, and I'll be a regular user. The existing tab/chord sites are just as bad as the lyrics sites for spamminess and nasty Flash ads (they're the one site I use regularly that leads me to want to install AdBlock).

Sorry for the self-promotion, but you might find http://guitaryst.com to your liking :)

I don't have an account at any of the music services, and would have no desire to play along to songs, so that being the default workflow is not useful to me, though I guess it might be to some players.

When I try to just use the search function, it can't find chords for most of the stuff I look for. My first two searches was for chords for these songs: "Over the Edge" by The Wipers, "Don't Wanna Know if You Are Lonely" by Husker Du. When it does find something, I can't choose other options (sometimes a transcription sucks, and you have to check other versions). Also, when it does find it, it seems to lose it sometimes for no reason that is apparent to me...I switched back here after it found a version of "Over the Edge" and when I flipped back here to note that it could be found by going through a few combinations of band name and "Tabs" vs. "Chords", it was gone.

It just doesn't fit my workflow, at all, and is far more frustrating than the old method of googling and clicking until I find a decent version. I don't want to have to guess whether there will be chords or tabs or whether I need "The" in front of the band name (I'm still not actually sure which change made "Over The Edge" findable, but it was something)...I just want it to give me the best option, and the ability to choose if there's more than one option.

So, it looks really nice, but functionally it's simply not usable.

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

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Post by serichsen »

songrabbit wrote: post #131
serichsen wrote: post #113

I find it really irritating that this site requires cookies to be settable for the display to work.

The only thing we store is a session variable of your search results - no personal information.

That is not the point. I do not need a session variable of my search results. I just need the results, displayed on my screen.
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