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Show HN: We made a spam-free lyric search engine
- Khroma 15y agoSuper 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?
- asmallgrin 15y agowe are currently working on a hash based linking system.
- JoshTriplett 15y agoYou might consider using real query URLs such as /?q=query or /q/query , and using the HTML5 history API to load those query URLs via javascript without changing the page. That gives you unique URLs without just using anchors, making it feasible to index.
- stoph 15y agoI would encourage you to consider sending people to a completely new URL instead of loading the lyrics with Ajax, unless the browser supports the HTML5 History API. That way, people who use modern browsers get the original user experience, but those who use legacy browsers have to see a quick refresh. Your site is so clean already that I doubt most IE users would notice the load time. As an alternative, support hashes and the history API so most people see the "clean" URLs.
- a3_nm 15y ago> Changing the URL would be nice for linking. Another problem is that the back button is broken.
- HaloZero 15y agoWhat's wrong with http://lyrics.wikia.com/Main_Page http://lyrics.wikia.com/Main_Page? (I really should have posted this as reply to when you mention there are no spam free lyric search engines)
- irfn 15y agowell.. http://www.songrabbit.com/ http://www.songrabbit.com/ is ad free :)
- skeletonjelly 15y agoHow do you think this will be sustainable? I remember a good reddit or HN thread asking why lyric websites seemed to be particularly ad-laden. The consensus was that due to the nature of the visitors, it was the only viable revenue stream. Users to these kind of sites really only visit for a short period and leave after they've found what they came for. Having said that, I have no suggestion on what would work.
- maxciociola 15y agotake a look at www.instalyrics.com much better experience . sorry ;-(
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- norova 15y agoThe site is breakable by simply entering '<a href="#"></a>' in the logo text box. Just a heads up. :)
- norova 15y agoLooks like ya fixed it. Cheers!
- iamdave 15y agoFINALLY!! Thank you so much for this. Is there a search API?
- songrabbit 15y agoNot yet - this was literally built over the last two days. But we could make one!
- dohkoxar 15y agoPlease give us some API access so we can start making some cool apps/plugins! :)
- tm65atcolumbia 15y agoAwesome. I'd like to be notified. Got a mailing list?
- songrabbit 15y agoJust shoot an email to songrabbit@songrabbit.com and we'll let you know once its up.
- maxciociola 15y agohere we go your search api https://developer.musixmatch.com/documentation https://developer.musixmatch.com/documentation
- songrabbit 15y agoStandard search techniques work (ex put the query in quotes for exact match). Also the text under the logo is editable by anyone, so you see the most recent change.
- omarchowdhury 15y agoMost of the traffic to lyric sites originate from long-tail search keywords (414 million global broad match monthly searches for lyrics). Your site has no Googlebot crawlable data, barring you from participating in a share of the long-tail search volume.
- songrabbit 15y agoThat'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.
- jerrya 15y agoI like your site a lot, but am wondering when you get hit for being various kinds of scrapers. I wish you well, I am so glad to find that others hate lyrics sites as much as I do. And yet, I am often searching for lyrics (when I don't have Soundhound near me.) I am able to use Google's Personal Blocklist to block out the worst of the worst sites. That leaves me with a pretty good solution.
- chrischen 15y agohttp://lystener.com/ http://lystener.com/ exists. There must be a reason why these clean lyrics sites aren't more prominent.
- philwelch 15y agoThere's also http://www.darklyrics.com/ http://www.darklyrics.com/ but only for metal.
- frankdenbow 15y agohttp://www.instalyrics.com http://www.instalyrics.com exists As does http://rapgenius.com http://rapgenius.com for hip hop I built my own at http://new.songvoodoo.com http://new.songvoodoo.com as well, so other sites do exist
- NickNam 15y agoI like Dennis (and what he's all about) and the site is very clean! Nice.
- ShardPhoenix 15y agoI can't figure out how to do anything here. I click the text below the logo and it disappears, and nothing else happens.
- songrabbit 15y agoTry again, we just went down for a few minutes
- ShardPhoenix 15y agoI just tried again, it's working for me now.
- aaronjg 15y agoWhen I go to the site (Firefox & Chrome on Linux), I can't enter any search. I see the logo, with the text 'Song Rabbit' below, and when I click on the text it disappears. But I don't see any text input fields.
- songrabbit 15y agoSomething just went down, working on getting it back up right now. Sorry about that
- onlawschool 15y agoIt isn't working for me. Tried Safari and Firefox.
- songrabbit 15y agoShould be fixed, sorry about that
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- onlawschool 15y ago"the text under the logo is editable by anyone, so you see the most recent change." -- Did this function cause an error?
- songrabbit 15y agoYup. Should be fixed now
- onlawschool 15y agoThanks! Very cool site. Well done.
- rudle 15y agoYou 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.
- songrabbit 15y agoThis will be deployed post-hurricane
- JoshTriplett 15y agoNice! Sadly, the first lyric I thought to try ("song that doesn't end") didn't work. :) The links at the upper right are so faint they almost disappear; a bit more contrast, please. How do you plan to deal with the copyright issues that will inevitably get thrown at you? Your "legal" link says you don't store any copyrighted material, but I don't see any evidence that you load it from elsewhere, and in any case that hasn't protected the numerous "link sites" out there. I personally think you've done something awesome and reasonable here, but you will get hit by this at some point.
- asmallgrin 15y agodid you use quotes? try it without it.
- JoshTriplett 15y agoI tried it both ways; without quotes it produces some results, but not the desired result: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/The_Song_That_Never_Ends https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/The_Song_That...
- morsch 15y agoLots of AJAX with no state in the url. Means I can't send my friends to a search results page (bad) or to a lyrics page (worse).
- asmallgrin 15y agotrue, we will be working on a remedy for this.
- klapinat0r 15y agoIt doesn't have to be complex. I get around this simply by re-submitting if the hashtag is present: http://blurk.org/#tv-the+simpsons http://blurk.org/#tv-the+simpsons Similar to your site in terms of "not storing, just search engine". I've put the javascript snippet for it at the bottom of the page source.
- songrabbit 15y agoThis should be live now - let us know if you have any more suggestions.
- azylman 15y agoSecond this. It also means I can't set up a quick search in Chrome. That's the only thing preventing me from using this all the time.
- maxciociola 15y agohave you tried our Lyrics API developer.musixmatch.com ?
- songrabbit 15y agoLinking to particular songs is live.
- LiveTheDream 15y agoI just see a rabbit with headphones, and some low-contrast links to a legal page and a contact email. Is something broken?
- onlawschool 15y agoIt broke again. May want to consider removing the editable title function while it is on the front page of HN so you don't lose exposure.
- gabebw 15y ago2 things: 1) Please show the first few lines of the song under each result 2) Please stack the results like traditional <li>s - the "cloud" effect makes them very hard to scan.
- biturd 15y agoAccording 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?
- robryan 15y agoPossibly scraping the lyrics?
- biturd 15y agoI was thinking that as well, but if they are not storing the data, that would mean a real time scrape? Seems a little troublesome. All it would take for the site they are scraping from to break the entire site is a single character change probably, then their regex fails.
- karlzt 15y agofix the typo on http://www.songrabbit.com/legal.php http://www.songrabbit.com/legal.php >>an innovative seach interface
- songrabbit 15y agoThanks, good catch
- songrabbit 15y agoThanks so much for the sugestions! Sorry if I'm not getting to your comment individually - my internet has been hurricane'd
- mturmon 15y agoThe 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 ...
- songrabbit 15y agoWe are expanding the result pool right now
- officemonkey 15y agoAlso, 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.
- gruseom 15y agoHey that's a pretty great list of four songs to search for.
- punchagan 15y agoI need to put my search result in quotes to get relevant results for the song. Users would generally tend to search for a song's first line or most frequently repeated phrase. Search results could be ordered based on that.
- jamesgagan 15y agolooks nice and clean, but i'm pretty sure you need to licence lyrics or you may run into trouble...
- tszming 15y agoI 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 http://www.songrabbit.com/php/retrieve.php?i=0
- songrabbit 15y agoThat 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.
- w1ntermute 15y agoAre the lyrics retrieved using client-side code?
- GeneTraylor 15y agoI 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?
- beaker 15y agoI 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?
- songrabbit 15y agoWe are working on filtering out malicious code right now, we'll start thinking about content after that ;)
- mleonhard 15y agoWhen 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."
- hammock 15y agoHow 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
- songrabbit 15y agoWe'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?
- jc4p 15y agoThe matching segment to your query +- a few lines?
- jcampbell1 15y agoNice work, I typed "pompatous" and the results were spot on. I wish some one would give your a good domain name... maybe jig.com.
- bitops 15y agoGreat start - glad someone finally did this. And it's good - I searched for "meet your downstairs" and the Amy Winehouse song I was looking for came up. Maybe add a way for users to submit new lyrics? I don't know any of the legal implications.
- artursapek 15y agoI searched for "Grizzly Bear Ready" looking for "Ready, Able" and got TechN9ne songs. Where are you scraping your data from?
- perlgeek 15y agoI like it, just needs some polishing: * Black text in dark gray boxes is hard to read * The logo takes up too much vertical screen space * You should really point to your sources * Some meta information (song writer, year) would be nice. * noscript tags are missing
- songrabbit 15y agoThanks for the input, neither of us are designers so we especially appreciate usability feedback. We'll be getting to work on these, and yes, I agree we should be pointing to our sources. I'll be committing changes once I get my network connection back from Irene
- rorrr 15y agoDon't people use google for this?
- TeMPOraL 15y agoAnd 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.
- rguzman 15y agohigher contrast, bigger fonts
- ericmsimons 15y agoI did something similar to this a year or two ago (http://www.lyricfuser.com http://www.lyricfuser.com) I'm not sure how you guys are scraping the lyrics, but almost all of the large lyric sites ended up blocking my server's IP. You should do this in Javascript if possible to avoid getting blocked. Looks great though!
- riffraff 15y agonot sure if it fits you but there _are_ options to avoid scraping the lyrics sites, e.g. http://musixmatch.com/ http://musixmatch.com/
- ericmsimons 15y agoNever knew about this - thanks!!
- songrabbit 15y agoAlright, HN, I'm out for the night. Leave a comment here or email songrabbit@songrabbit.com if you have any more suggestions or complaints. Godspeed
- danteembermage 15y agoI decided to test you a little bit and search for a lyric from a Janis Joplin song Another Little Piece of my Heart, "you know you got it when it makes you feel good" Without quotes this does not produce the song. Maybe increase the weight in the search results from keywords being located next to each other?
- feniger 15y agoPlus one on "Less-than three" in legal Colon Right-Parenthesis
- ashcairo 15y agoDo you have any plans on including timestamps for the lyrics, so I could know when in the song the lyric is sung?
- 9999 15y agoYou have the lyrics for lightsabre cocksucking blues. There is no spam. You will be my first stop for lyrics searches from now on. Thanks.
- songrabbit 15y agoglad you like the site. enjoy
- aacook 15y agoAwesome! Nice work. Once you add URLs you should do some basic SEO. I imagine you have at least 1M songs in your database, and I don't know where you're getting your data from... but Google should pick you up.
- riffraff 15y agocan you compare to http://instalyrics.com/ http://instalyrics.com/ ?
- tty 15y agoThis looks interesting. I prefer the (even more) minimalist design of OP's site, but lyrics automatically loading makes this one a winner (for the time being).
- fatalerrorx3 15y agoIL is Pretty good site, it's clean, intuitive, and surprisingly functional
- mtogo 15y agoInstalyrics is cool looking and the interface is nice, but it failed horribly to find lyrics to any of the songs i tried. Songrabbit just works for me.
- SwellJoe 15y agoAdd 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).
- songrabbit 15y agoThis would be really interesting, we'll look into it
- kilian 15y agoSorry for the self-promotion, but you might find http://guitaryst.com http://guitaryst.com to your liking :)
- SwellJoe 15y agoI 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.
- timcederman 15y agoKudos - I tried something reasonably obscure: Jebediah - Military Strongmen and it got it.
- 38388 15y agowell great job laddie. now go fuck your 2 inch dick with some warm lotion and say cheers to your mommie
- 38388 15y agowell go fuck yourself up your ass and try to get a life asshole
- utunga 15y agoA great idea - I have a real need for this and loathe absolutely loathe the experience on existing sites. No idea how you turn this into a business though. A bigger, happier font and bigger text search box would be easier and nice I tried searching for 'Que Cera' which the definitive version was that performed by Doris Day, surely, as evidenced by first results on google, wikipedia etc.. however your results were hannah montana (twice?) and a bunch of other folks singing songs not necessarily including the words 'Que Cera' in not including the 'definitive' version of this song. One of the other things I hate about the existing lyrics sites is that they often get it wrong.. for instance for a favorite song of mine transforming the lyric 'its not a race' to 'it is a race' (which kinda is the whole point of that song). Reliability would be a reason I'd go back to a site I trust.
- dalke 15y agoThe song title is "Que Sera Sera".
- utunga 15y agoA great idea - I have a real need for this and loathe absolutely loathe the experience on existing sites. No idea how you turn this into a business though. A bigger, happier font and bigger text search box would be easier and nice I tried searching for 'Que Cera' which the definitive version was that performed by Doris Day, surely, as evidenced by first results on google, wikipedia etc.. however your results were hannah montana (twice?) and a bunch of other folks singing songs not necessarily including the words 'Que Cera' and not including the authors of the 'definitive' version of this song. One of the other things I hate about the existing lyrics sites is that they can't be relied on. For instance for a favorite song of mine that I wanted to print out and put on the wall, I found they had transformed the lyric 'its not a race' to 'it is a race' (which kinda is the whole point of that song) as well as a few other mistakes. Reliability would be a reason I'd go back to a site I trust.
- 38388 15y agowell great job laddie. now go fuck your 2 inch dick with some warm lotion and say cheers to your mommie
- 38388 15y agowell great job laddie. now go fuck your 2 inch dick with some warm lotion and say cheers to your mommie
- 38388 15y agohow about moving the search box up your ass so you don't have to post on m2m on CL?
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- 38388 15y agoA FUCKED idea - I have a real FAGGOTASS need for this and MASTURBATE absolutely MASTURBATE the COCKSUCKING on existing PUSSY. No FUCCKING idea how you turn this into a FAGGOT STORE though. A bigger, FATTER COCK and bigger WAD WATERY SHIT HOLE would be easier and SHIT DICK I tried searching for 'FUCK YOUR MOMMA; which the definitive version was that performed by Doris Day, surely, as evidenced by first results on google, wikipedia etc.. however your results were hannah montana (FUCK YOU?) and a bunch of other folks singing songs not necessarily including the words 'FAGGOT SHIT COCK ASS" in not including the 'definitive' version of this song. One of the other things I hate about the existing lyrics sites is that they often getASS IN DICK COCK SHIT.. for instance for a favorite song of mine transforming the lyric 'its not a race' to 'it is a race' (which kinda is the whole point of that song). Reliability would be a reason I'd go back to a site I trust.
- 38388 15y agoSTOP CENSORING MY COMMENTS YOU FAGGOT ASS PISS NAZI HITLER JEW-HATING COCKSUCKER
- snikch 15y agoBut now where will I get ring tones for my motorola V3? Seriously though, I like it.
- buro9 15y agoBack 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 there still when we came with a new release 2) If someone was looking for a lyric or something they'd heard and we helped them find it, we might convert a stray passer-by into a fan So I built something that you'd now call a crowd-sourcing site. For every track, people could submit: * Lyrics * Mis-hearings * Personal memories the lyrics evoke * Interpretations/Understanding of the Lyrics * Tablature for different instruments All of which were votable so that the best tablature rose to the top, but others (perhaps harder ones) were still available. It was highly compelling, you came for the lyrics but stayed for the personal memories and insight. As a label we felt it was hugely successful. It definitely paid back in keeping the interest of fans, increasing that interest and creating new fans. It worked so well that NME nominated us for best web site in their awards ceremony in early 2000 because they'd never seen a site in which the content was mostly created by fans and that the fans loved. I left the label in 2000 to do other things. The system ticked over for a while, but the label never replaced me with another technically inclined person and when they wanted to change the styling of the song system they broke the PERL script and left it broke before taking it offline. Such a shame really. Since then, whenever I look up lyrics, I've wondered why there isn't a comprehensive crowd-sourcing of all of the information around a song in the same vein that I did it, but including things like when it's been performed live or recorded in radio sessions. A real database about a song, what it means, who's covered it, how to play it, what it means. The business model would be to sell stuff related to the song, affiliate fees for MP3 downloads and CD sales, affiliate link for the purchase of the official tablature books. Keep it simple, and keep adverts off of it. A wikipedia solely for songs and everything about a song. The cost per transaction and storage is incredibly low as it's just text. And you could probably negotiate with publishing companies as right now they don't even get credit for this stuff let alone increased opportunity to sell what they have. The PERL script in 1997 wasn't more than a simple thing that used flat files as a database for the 200+ tracks we'd released to then. Nowadays, for the complexity we're talking about, a weekend project in Django would suffice as a first pass. The hardest thing is just talking to the publishers, but truly, it's not as hard as some people imagine, there are fewer publishers than there are record labels.
- jiipee_2 15y agoMinimalism is nice, but take a look how for example Facebook shows a link to this site. Too minimalist. (This of course does not matter if you don't want the link to be shared).
- gyantra 15y agoIts nice. It will be good if you can add chord charts to it
- vjeux 15y agoYou should put a link to the original source. Even if their website is full of ads they deserve credit for the lyrics. Also in case of mistakes we have somewhere to report to.
- mikecane 15y agoNot "Songbunny" because "Songrabbit" quickly read can also be read as "Song Grabbit." Clever.
- Major_Grooves 15y agoI 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.
- TeMPOraL 15y agoBut, 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.
- Kliment 15y agoFifth largest Mediawiki install worldwide is a lyrics site: http://lyrics.wikia.com/Main_Page http://lyrics.wikia.com/Main_Page
- jarek 15y agoInterestingly, 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 I am occasionally interested in reading.
- serialpreneur 15y agoThat feels oddly strange on a lyrics site. To not being bombarded with Google Ads left, right & center! Thanks for the clean interface.
- fefzero 15y agoA 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).
- songrabbit 15y ago1 and 2 are fixed. We'll work on 3.
- fefzero 15y agoAwesome that you guys are still following along here. I don't see a back button anywhere, but maybe with 2 you were referring to the ability to copy a link, which works great. It seems really speedy tonight. I'm pretty sure part of this is because the user interface just makes it seem speedy, but maybe it's because it's not at the top of the front page anymore?
- songrabbit 15y agoA back button should pop up when you select one of the search results (above the actual lyrics). What browser are you using? And yeah we arent getting hit as hard as we were, so it's probably a bit quicker than last night
- TeMPOraL 15y agoIt'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 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 :).
- sid0 15y agoIndeed. Searches are normally safe operations as defined by HTTP, so they really should be HTTP GET.
- fatalerrorx3 15y agohttp://songrabbit.com/php/search.php?q=radiohead+i%27m+stuck+in+this+bed 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 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
- songrabbit 15y agoLinking to songs or search results is live now
- serichsen 15y agoI find it really irritating that this site requires cookies to be settable for the display to work.
- songrabbit 15y agoThe only thing we store is a session variable of your search results - no personal information.
- serichsen 15y agoThat is not the point. I do not need a session variable of my search results. I just need the results, displayed on my screen.
- cool-RR 15y agoPlease put keyboard focus on the search box when entering the website.
- cool-RR 15y agoPlease increase the font size.
- blauwbilgorgel 15y agoWhat 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?
- streptomycin 15y agoIf this was remotely legal, Google would have done it 10 years ago.
- alanh 15y ago> If this was remotely legal, Google would have done it 10 years ago. While legal issues may be the reason Google didn’t do this, it is hardly possibility. I don’t see value in a comment like this. If you have more information or insider knowledge, share it.
- streptomycin 15y agoGoogle, Yahoo, Microsoft, whoever. It's a massive and lucrative market, yet the legal challenges are well established. Some sites have been shut down, and the remaining big sites are outside of US jurisdiction and/or really really shady.
- dpetrov 15y agoIs there a good reason why the lyrics text is not right-aligned? I understand symmetry looks better in such a design, but it's much easier to follow along with a song when you don't have to consciously look for the beginning of the next line.
- waterside81 15y agoHere's a feature request: show a real-time stream of the searches people are doing. Reading some of the comments here, I'm intrigued as to what comes to people's minds when they try this service out. For example, I searched for "Under the Bridge" by Red Hot Chili Peppers. Why? I have no idea.
- txt 15y agoNice clean cut site..I have a few suggestions to separate you guys from the others...I would make a 'bookmarklet', a few lines of js, that will spawn a input box asking for artist/track..OR the script can manipulate the current page they are on now, by copying what they have selected, because I know alot of people including myself, who see part of a lyric from a site, or facebook, and want to find the rest....Make a nice image, with the script as the url, and instructions for the user to drag it to there bookmarks toolbar so they can search even if they aren't at your site..Also, just as buro9 was saying..... Song Meanings/Interpretations/Understanding... People LOVE this, and here is a great example of it-> Say 'Harry & Sally' start dating..They both go to each of there homes after there date... and sally decides to post a song on her facebook about how she feels at that moment...Now Harry is wondering if this girl is really diggin him, or looking for a serious relationship etc..So over at his house, harry logs on facebook and sees that sally just posted a song just after ther date!!! What's harry going to do??? Look up those lyrics! And he might not completely understand the meaning of the song so he looks at what others have interpreted the song as...he now sees that sally doesnt want him to speak, she knows what hes feeling... (no doubt) lol just kidding but really, crazy example...I know first hand that this goes on alot..aha but anyway, ill post some more ideas soon!
- johnx123-up 15y agoNice. I once used LyricsAMP and that was fantastic (right now it's dead)
- martinkallstrom 15y agoI like the idea of allowing users to personalize the slogan under your rabbit logo. Was it put there on a whim or is there an elaborate theory behind it?
- rosariom 15y agowhat technologies/architecture you guys use behind the scenes to power this site? pretty damn cool site by the way :)
- feniger 15y agoAlmost all search results contain the word "lyrics" in them, you can remove that and enhance the minimalistic view of the webpage
- gravityblast 15y agoHi, I made instalyrics.com using the search API provided by musixmatch.com, there is also an extension for chrome here http://insta.ly/.chrome http://insta.ly/.chrome