Comments on: How To Conduct a Song Search By The Lyrics You Know http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-find-songs-based-on-whatever-lyrics-you-know/ Cool Websites, Software and Internet Tips Sat, 11 Feb 2012 04:28:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mark O'Neill http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-find-songs-based-on-whatever-lyrics-you-know/#comment-398193 Mark O'Neill Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:54:13 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/?p=22656#comment-398193 On a side note, LyricRat is down. The MUO effect perhaps?! ;-) On a side note, LyricRat is down. The MUO effect perhaps?! ;-)

]]> By: Mark O'Neill http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-find-songs-based-on-whatever-lyrics-you-know/#comment-398192 Mark O'Neill Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:53:30 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/?p=22656#comment-398192 One I REALLY like is <a href="http://www.midomi.com" rel="nofollow">Midomi</a> which gives you the ability to <b>hum</b> the song (no words required) and it finds the song title for you. You obviously need a headset and microphone for this and the site is amazingly accurate. I was able to find the titles of songs which I had heard as a child and which I occasionally hummed out loud ever since, driving everyone crazy. Now thanks to Midomi, I have the titles and now the MP3's! lol. One I REALLY like is Midomi which gives you the ability to hum the song (no words required) and it finds the song title for you.

You obviously need a headset and microphone for this and the site is amazingly accurate. I was able to find the titles of songs which I had heard as a child and which I occasionally hummed out loud ever since, driving everyone crazy.

Now thanks to Midomi, I have the titles and now the MP3′s! lol.

]]> By: Peter http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-find-songs-based-on-whatever-lyrics-you-know/#comment-398180 Peter Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:56:09 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/?p=22656#comment-398180 Since I am spending too much time online reading the now late arriving MUO.com email (hint, hint!), here's how I do it: I type in the search bar of Maxthon the lyrics that I know, and locate the group name or song name. Then I type in the (possibly corrected) song lyrics, the band and/or songname followed by "lyrics". It's rare for my searches to be unfruitful. If they are it is usually because one of the search keys has been spelled or composed incorrectly. The reason why this works? Modern search engines have been refined for this sort of task among many others. The beauty of Maxthon is that I can drag and drop my searches for stuff that I am browsing and the result appears in a new window. This means that I don't have to wait for very long to understand key terms in an article, and I am able to comprehend the article more fully. The difficulty with Maxthon? V 2 and 3 x have a proprietary 'favourites' system, which I dislike intensely. Moreover, there is a highly dubious 'cloud' storage system for links, which means users can update all of their machines. The cloud is to me an unreliable place. I like to do my own storage, and I like to use the net lingua franca, not a proprietary system. So, does anyone know of a browser with drag and drop searching, and drag and drop link opening? Before inappropriate suggestions roll in, Firefox et al. use (e.g.) the centre button, not right click and drag. Since I am spending too much time online reading the now late arriving MUO.com email (hint, hint!), here’s how I do it: I type in the search bar of Maxthon the lyrics that I know, and locate the group name or song name. Then I type in the (possibly corrected) song lyrics, the band and/or songname followed by “lyrics”. It’s rare for my searches to be unfruitful.

If they are it is usually because one of the search keys has been spelled or composed incorrectly.

The reason why this works? Modern search engines have been refined for this sort of task among many others.

The beauty of Maxthon is that I can drag and drop my searches for stuff that I am browsing and the result appears in a new window. This means that I don’t have to wait for very long to understand key terms in an article, and I am able to comprehend the article more fully.

The difficulty with Maxthon? V 2 and 3 x have a proprietary ‘favourites’ system, which I dislike intensely. Moreover, there is a highly dubious ‘cloud’ storage system for links, which means users can update all of their machines. The cloud is to me an unreliable place. I like to do my own storage, and I like to use the net lingua franca, not a proprietary system.

So, does anyone know of a browser with drag and drop searching, and drag and drop link opening? Before inappropriate suggestions roll in, Firefox et al. use (e.g.) the centre button, not right click and drag.

]]> By: bTuna http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-find-songs-based-on-whatever-lyrics-you-know/#comment-398103 bTuna Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:53:33 +0000 http://www.makeuseof.com/?p=22656#comment-398103 Good stuff. Thanks. Good stuff. Thanks.

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