Songfile (lyrics.ch) Trails Off

dave256 writes: "I was recently wandering about looking for some lyrics and CD track listings, and going to my good old standby, lyrics.ch (and summarily suffering through the redirection to songfile), I noticed a notice:'On September 30, 2001, the International Lyrics Server website will be closed and all lyrics will be removed from the Songfile web site. Thank you for your support, and we appreciate your past patronage. Please direct any questions or inquiries regarding this change to lyrics@harryfox.com.' Who was this masked harryfox.com? Boy was I (not) surprised. I for one will miss the old beast." The lyrics.ch site has survived some tough times before, so perhaps this isn't really its end.

Comments

Re:Hasn't been decent for years

[SCHecklerX]

In its original form, Lyrics.ch caused me to buy more music than I ever had before. Not even Napster gets me that motivated to go out and buy CD's (although the RIAA makes it very hard to get motivated about being overcharged, but I digress). It was very easy for me to search for a song from over 15 years ago and find out what it was. With that knowledge I would look for the best priced CD containing that song.

And that is the point the idiots totally fail to see, (and sadly so do many of those posting here at slashdot).

That's exactly what I used to use the lyrichs server for. I would hear some words to a song, not know what it was, then go look it up so I could purchase the CD.

This was a unique search engine. There really was no other way to figure out a song's title and artist based on what you heard. What is wrong with HFA? Are they REALLY this stupid, thinking the main use of this site was so that people could somehow rip-off the artists? I'm sure any cover band who wants to play a song would buy the sheet music, with lyrics, if they needed to. But you can't do what lyrics.ch did if your only resource is to buy sheet music. You can't search lyrics on paper to figure out a songname, just like you can't go to a library and read EVERY BOOK just to figure out where a certain passage was quoted.

Re:Not a huge loss - they were gone anyway.

[ackthpt]

(I would be really happy if all CDs would come with lyrics... or, alternatively, the
musicians would learn to pronounce the words clearly enough so we dumb foreigners could make any sense of them =)

I'd just be happy if the dumb fsck radio dj's would tell you what songs they've played.

East coast, Mid-west, West Coast, it's the same all over, damn few will tell you, which I really fail to understand, since the RIAA are so rabid about profits, but you can't by music you don't know whose or what it is! I've gone years not buying a CD because all I get is dumb looks when I try to describe it in music shops. "Well it goes, hmm hmm hmmmmm hmm hmmmm and lada dee dum dum doo doo doowop"
After the lawyers, I've got a pretty good idea who should be next up against the wall when the revolution comes.