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Yahoo! Launches Audio Search Beta

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the listen-to-the-music dept.

guaigean writes "Internet News is running a story on a new Yahoo! service titled Yahoo! Audio Search and it is currently in beta. The tool allows the searching of audio files and Yahoo! claims to have 50 million music, voice, and other files cataloged in the search. It searches across multiple mainstream music sites, as well as plenty of independent pages. Now if only it was tied in with some sort of lyric search."

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  1. Wow.. step ahead? by priestx · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Ok, Google and Yahoo! both have Video search.. but does Google have Audio search engine capabilities?
    First innovation for Yahoo! since.. a long time ago.. or Google's imitation?

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  2. Uh oh... by ScaryMonkey · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Hope that doesn't include *copyrighted* music files! Better watch your step there, Yahoo!

  3. And all you need... by ms1234 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    .. is a microphone and know how to humm..

    1. Re:And all you need... by sqrt(2) · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Actually, I remember seeing this somewhere. I want to say it was on the old tech TV (back before G4 ran it into the ground). You hum the tune of the song or audio clip and it matches it to similar sounding audio files.

      (As I was writing this I remembered the name)

      Query by hum, here is the website. querybyhum.cs.nyu.edu

      Interesting and fun, although not particularly useful, there are more efficient ways to search data (Metadata), although this way may be more natural to the way humans work. Not to mention the fact that it requires a rather time intensive process of creating profiles of each audio file to be matched against.

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  4. Baidu, the "Chinese Google" has something similar by ReformedExCon · · Score: 3, Interesting

    There was a story the other day about Baidu.com was being sued for providing easy search access to copyrighted materials. This on the eve of their IPO.

    If a company can be sued over it in China, where copyright restrictions are very lax, how successful will Yahoo! be in implementing this here in a country where copyrights are taken much more seriously?

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  5. Impressed by dnixon112 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Wow, I just tried to search for a song I've been trying to find for a little while with no luck in google, and bam first result there it was, free download.

  6. I'd like... by Atario · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ...song-identification based on me humming it into my computer's microphone.

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  7. Re:Copyrighted materials by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    http://search.yahoo.com/cc ?

  8. It goes like this.. by mrthoughtful · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Aw. I was disappointed - I expected an audio search, not an audio metadata search.
    I was wondering how their audio search would work.. Something like a recording interface expecting the searcher to hum, whistle or sing the song they are looking for..

    "it goes Dum di doo di doo diddly dum"

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  9. Lyric search by grubbymitts · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Oh if only. It is an unquestionable truth that when searching for lyrics on the interweb you are bound to pick up a piece of malware.

  10. Most usefull for publishing perhaps? by dustrider · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Anyone else notice the submit page?

    Seems you can put your own audio up there too using rss. which leads me to believe either two things will happen:
    1) People will post free copies of comercial music and be blocked, or perhaps the service gets closed down.
    2) New independant artists could use this as a launching platform.

    What this really needs though is some sort of amazonesque, other people who liked this also like... and an ebay-esque method for people to be able to publish their own original music.

    With those two things this could really help break the stranglehold the media companies have on the music industry.

  11. Re:amazing! by voss,+sometimes... · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Actually, now I know how this is done. Yahoo does not link to our band's website http://www.soteriosmusic.com/ , but soundclick instead. Simple. I only wish they'd start crawling the web and link to band's websites directly.
    One minor notice. Soundclick offers mp3's 128 kbit, from our site you can get ~192 kbit ogg's, under creative commons license btw.

    enjoy.

  12. Good way to track down pirated songs by Shivetya · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Example, Gothic Power by Christopher Fields. I don't believe you can buy this anywhere but people have ripped it from various trailers. (variations were in FOTR and T3 trailers)

    I am pretty sure other trailer music never intended for distribution is locatable with this service.

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