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

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Post by Kliment »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #107
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…

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…

Fifth largest Mediawiki install worldwide is a lyrics site:

http://lyrics.wikia.com/Main_Page

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

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Post by sid0 »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #110

It'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 :).

Indeed. Searches are normally safe operations as defined by HTTP, so they really should be HTTP GET.

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

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Post by blauwbilgorgel »

What is your view on copyright?

In 2006 the MPA had a crackdown on tablature and lyrics websites. I am not a lawyer, but I am pretty sure you can't just publish all lyrics, without infringing here and there.

What is your view on scraping?

It is unlikely you entered all lyrics yourself, but used an existing database. I personally wouldn't feel comfortable scraping or fetching my content from a site that hosts advertisements, and then republish those without advertisements. Did you find access to an opensource database, or is the service here more like a reversed Adblock?

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

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Post by fatalerrorx3 »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #110

It'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 :).

http://songrabbit.com/php/search.php?q=radiohead+i%27m+stuck...

And then it stores the results in a session/cookie of some sort, because you can then access the lyrics for the results by going to

http://songrabbit.com/php/retrieve.php?i=0 (specifying the index number 0 as the offset from the start of the result set)...each result is broken apart by ..kind of an odd way of doing things though

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

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Post by songrabbit »

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).

This would be really interesting, we'll look into it
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