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LyricStatus: Search & Post Song Lyrics On Facebook

Hammad — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 19:01:17 +0000

Sometimes, Facebook users make their status the same as the lyrics of the song they are currently listening to. Rather than going to Google, searching for the lyrics, copying them and then posting the status on Facebook, LyricStatus makes this job much easier.

All a person has to do is visit the LyricStatus website, and on the main page, search for the song whose lyrics you want to post on Facebook as a status. The site is kept up to date so you shouldn’t have any problem in finding any song, even if its new. All you have to do now is just highlight the part of the lyrics which you want to post as a status, and click on the small box that becomes visible, that says “Post To Facebook”.

You may also wish to add quote marks, or even put the name of the artist on the end to credit it if you want.

Features

Free to use.
Makes status posting easier, as it takes less steps to accomplish the task at hand.
Request lyrics, and even submit lyrics if lyrics of any song are missing.
Lyric database is kept very up-to date.
Similar tools: LyricsNMusic, LyricsGaps, LyricsTraining, Lingt, Memorista, LangoLAB, Popling and MangoLanguages.

Check out LyricStatus @ www.lyricstatus.com (By Hammad from TechnicallyDigital)

Songzilla: The Easy Way To Stream Songs Online & View Their Lyrics

MOin — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 03:01:33 +0000

Often music streaming websites place limitations on how much music you can listen to for free. Fortunately Songzilla is unlike those websites. In addition to letting you find, stream, and download unlimited music, the site also helps you find lyrics.

By utilizing Grooveshark, Songzilla lets you look for songs by their title, the artist’s name, or the name of the album. You can click on a search result to start playing that particular song. Apart from streaming, Songzilla works with other sites to let you download the songs you stream and obtain their lyrics.

You can also use the site to look for videos of songs and share songs with your friends. In case you want to mark songs, you can log into Songzilla using your Facebook account and favourite the songs you like.

Features:

A user-friendly web service.
Lets you stream and download songs.
Uses database of Grooveshark.
Lets you download songs.
Helps find song lyrics.
Lets you favourite songs to listen to later.
Similar tools: mp3skip, Mielophone, Riptune, MyStream and SadSteve.
Also read related articles: 3 Easy Tools to Record Streaming Music as MP3 Files, 7 Online Music Streaming Services With NO Restrictions.

Check out Songzilla @ http://www.songzillamusic.com (by MOin from Urban Savior)

LyricsNMusic: Easily Get Lyrics, Videos, Images & Info For Any Song

Umar — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 23:01:43 +0000

When you hear a song you like, you often turn to the Internet to get the song’s lyrics and view its video. This normally has you jumping from one site to another. Here to save your time in that process is a web service called LyricsNMusic.

LyricsNMusic is a free to use website that lists details of a song on a single webpage. These details include the song’s lyrics, videos, Wikipedia results, and links from iTunes and Amazon.

You can even view the song artist’s upcoming concert dates.

All of this information is displayed in a neat interface making things extremely easy to find.

Features:

A user-friendly interface.
Lists lyrics of a song.
Shows YouTube and Wikipedia links of a song.
Shows Amazon and iTunes purchase links of songs.
Similar tools: LyricsGaps, LyricsTraining, Lingt, Memorista, LangoLAB, Popling and MangoLanguages.

Check out LyricsNMusic @ www.lyricsnmusic.com (By Umar from TechCityInc)

LyricsGaps: Improve & Learn Languages By Listening Songs

MOin — Sun, 15 May 2011 19:01:07 +0000

A fun way to polish your skills at a new language you are learning is by listening to songs sung in that particular language. LyricsGaps is a tool that helps develop your language skills by listening to songs.

LyricsGaps is a free to use web service that lets you listen to songs and then select the appropriate lyrics for them. To play the songs, YouTube videos are embedded. Then certain words in the lyrics sheet are made missing; you have to fill in these blanks with the appropriate options. In case you do not understand the meaning of words in the visible lyrics, you can double click on them and their meaning appears.

You can also have the lyrics translated to your native language to better understand the song.

In the end your answers are scored out of 100; the higher you score, the better you understood the song.

Features:

A user-friendly web service.
Helps learn new languages by listening to songs and selecting appropriate lyrics.
Displays word meaning.
Can translate song lyrics to your native language.
Scores the lyrics you select.
Similar tool: LyricsTraining, Lingt, Memorista, LangoLAB, Popling and MangoLanguages.

Check out LyricsGap @ www.lyricsgaps.com (by MOin from ThumbPress)

Instalyrics: Instant Song Lyrics Search

MOin — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 23:01:27 +0000

If you want lyrics to a song quickly, you probably do not want to click on several links before reaching the desired lyrics page. Here to provide an efficient and fast method to search for lyrics is InstaLyrics. It is an instant song lyrics engine that displays results as you type.

You need not search only by the song title: you can also search for the artist or specific lyrics and have the site display the most relevant result. A relevant YouTube video of the song is also embedded on the lyrics page. In case of multiple songs with the same title, the most popular song lyrics are displayed with links to other lyrics located in the bottom left. The most popular lyrics are also listed separately by InstaLyrics.

Features:

A user friendly web tool.
Does not require any registration.
Lets you instantly search for lyrics.
Accepts various search parameters.
Provides a YouTube video for the song.
Displays a link to popular song lyrics.
Similar tools: Batlyrics, Lyrics.com, Batlyrics and SongMeaning.info.
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Check out InstaLyrics @ www.instalyrics.com (by MOin from ThumbPress)

Batlyrics: Cool Lyrics Website With Music Videos

MOin — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 17:01:57 +0000

Are you looking for lyrics to a song? You will find numerous lyrics-providing websites on the web but many of them are unreliable as they might have incorrect lyrics. To view lyrics that are reliable, check out BatLyrics.

BatLyrics is a free to use lyrics website that currently has more than 850,000 lyrics for more than 45,000 artists. You can easily find your desired song lyrics using the site’s search-box. The lyrics page of every song is given a user rating, number of views, album name, and composer name.

For almost all lyrics you get a YouTube clip along with a small lyrics box; here the lyrics roll up as the video plays; this nice little widget can be embedded on your blog/site through the provided code.

The site also shows currently trending song lyrics. You are shown different lists: top 10 songs, top 10 artists, top 10 albums, and past week best lyrics.

The site will serve all your song lyrics needs; it is the only one you will need to bookmark.

Features:

A user friendly website.
Lets you search for song lyrics.
Provides an embeddable lyrics widget including the song’s video.
Shows currently trending lyrics, artists, songs, and albums.
Similar tools: Lyrics.com, YouLyrics, LyricsTraining, Lyreach, Lyrster and LyricsFly.
Also read related: Find A Song Title Just by Humming The Lyrics and The Top 5 Sites to Find Song Lyrics Online.

Check out BatLyrics @ www.batlyrics.com (by MOin from ThumbPress)

RapGenius: Check Rap Song Meanings Online

Umar — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 21:01:04 +0000

For me, rap songs are hard to follow. Even when I look up the lyrics online, there are times when I simply do not understand the phrases and language used in the songs. If you face the same situation, then you should pay a visit to “Rap Genius”.

Rap Genius is a free to use website that lets you check rap song meanings. Rap songs contain many phrases that you might not be familiar with; this can be because of the language barrier or because the lyrics refer to something you are unfamiliar with.

Either way, this website can help you in determining the true meaning of rap songs. You can search for songs through the artist, song title, or the lyrics. While viewing the lyrics of a song, you can click on certain lyrics and a floating window with the lyric’s meaning appears. You can share the meaning of the lyric through its URL.

If you would like to receive updates on new rap lyrics, you can follow the site on Twitter or join its mailing list.

Features:

Lets you check rap lyric meanings online.
Meanings appear in a floating box besides the lyrics.
You can share lyrics’ meanings through their unique URLs.
Similar tools: TheRapMap, Lyreach, TubeOke, LyricRat, Lyrics, Lyrster, LyricsFly and few others in recently published top 5 sites to find song lyrics online.

Check out RapGenius @ www.rapgenius.com

Lyreach: Identify a Song By The Lyrics You Remember

TehseenBaweja — Thu, 27 May 2010 17:01:13 +0000

You got a few words from a song stuck in your mind but can’t seem to remember what song it is? Lyreach is an excellent tool to use for this. Just enter a few words from any part of the song and Lyreach will identify a song by the lyrics. The only restriction is that the words should be in sequence.

Lyreach would display a number potential songs matching your criteria and you can click on any of them to read the complete lyrics, preview the song or even buy it through Amazon MP3. The tool searches a collection of over 400,000 lyrics to identify your song and is a great tool if you are trying to identify a song from just a few words you remember.

Features:

Find a song that you only remember a few words of.
Search a collection of over 400,000 lyrics.
Read complete lyrics or buy the MP3 version of the song.
No registration required.
Similar sites: TubeOke, LyricRat, Lyrics, Lyrster, LyricsFly and few others in recently published top 5 sites to find song lyrics online.

Visit Lyreach @ www.lyreach.com [Via KillerStartups]

LyricsTraining: Learn Language Through Music & Lyrics

TehseenBaweja — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:01:28 +0000

Learning a new language is not easy and the traditional courses that make you memorize vocabulary and grammar are too boring. LyricsTraining is a new website that makes learning a new language easy by listening to music and lyrics. You can use it to learn English, Spanish, French, German, Italian and Dutch.

Once you have selected the language you want to learn, LyricsTraining will display a number of songs for that language. Each song will have a different difficulty level like Easy, Medium or Hard. While you are listening to the song, you will be asked to fill various blanks based on the lyrics. The whole exercise will be timed so you can learn in a challenging environment. You can also search for songs by song title or artist name.

Features:

Learn a new language through songs and lyrics.
Play songs and fill in the blanks based on lyrics.
Easy, medium and hard difficulty levels.
No registration required.
Other language learning websites: Lingt, Memorista, LangoLAB, Popling and MangoLanguages.

Visit LyricsTraining @ wwww.lyricstraining.com

TubeOke: Find Song Videos With Lyrics

TehseenBaweja — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:01:00 +0000

YouTube has millions of songs that you can watch but sometimes its hard to make out the exact lyrics. On the other hand, Lyrics.com has lyrics for thousands of songs but no videos. This is where TubeOke comes in. TubeOke lists lets you hear and watch any song from YouTube along with displaying the lyrics.

Simply start by entering the name of the song or the artist and select one of the videos to play. Right next to the video, TubeOke will display the lyrics of the song so you can sing along. All the other YouTube features such as volume, embed, etc, are also available. The simple and easy-to-use interface makes the app all that more useful. However, it would be even better if the tool could filter out non-music videos.

Features:

Watch thousands of YouTube songs.
Read lyrics while listening to the song.
Search by song or artist name.
Simple and easy-to-use interface.
No registration required.
Similar tool: YouLyrics.

Visit TubeOke @ www.tubeoke.com