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Yahoo! Launches Audio Search Beta
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."
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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Hope that doesn't include *copyrighted* music files! Better watch your step there, Yahoo!
.. is a microphone and know how to humm..
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?
Jesus saved me from my past. He can save you as well.
They actually encourage you to try a search on copyrighted materials (i.e. Coldplay), but if you do, it gives you a list of fee-based audio services where you can buy the song(s). No illegal stuff here, move along :).
Non-copyrighted materials have download links next to them.
I prefer archive.org, as a matter of fact, at least I'm certain what is under a Creative Commons licence there.
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.
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?
Pretty successful. Have you actually tried it? It doesn't take you to illegal free copies, it provides links to copies to buy.
For instance, searching for a semi-obscure ambient band that I quite like turned up lots of hits. Selecting a track takes you to this page which tells you various places you can buy and download it. It's quite a nice service really - think of it as akin iTMS search that runs over multiple different major music stores and provides options, or Froogle for downloadable music. Excellent if you like hard to find music (that often isn't in CD stores) like myself, or even if you simply want to shop around (though 99c seems to be the rate pretty much everywhere, so comparison shopping is limited). I could definitely see this catching on.
Way to go Yahoo! you actually came up with someting interesting and new for a change.
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This just seems like Yahoo is on a trip to yet another FCC regulation debate. But starting a service like this is a good counter-action to google's successful products.
...song-identification based on me humming it into my computer's microphone.
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Being a classical music geek, I am always skeptical, and i suppose somewhat jaded, in this world that worships the latest pop idol, so I said to myself, "yeah, we'll see about this" and popped into the search field the text from Walt Whitman, "Behold the sea" used by Ralph Vaughan Williams" in his first symphony. What do you know. It even even had a link to the apple i-tunes store which open itunes to the track. Next I tried "Ich habe genug" and not only did I get a handful of recordings of Bach's cantata BWV 82, it also found the recitative from the Magnificat. Thinking maybe it only indexed the titles, I tried some interior text from the cantata like "Mein Trost ist nur allein" and it still found it. This works much better than I expected. Cool.
Like people who think that podcasting is like radio, unfortunately, the number of people that think bbcode is the same as HTML is also growing.
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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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Search results:
750,234 results found.
Hey look, most top 40 songs from the last 10 years. This is pretty handy!
2 results found:
The Beatles - "I'm So Tired"
The Beatles - "She's Leaving Home"
There you go! Proof!
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/23/222925 5&tid=141&tid=126. html
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http://www.petting-zoo.net/~deadbeef/archive/5393
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.
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.
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.
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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Where's the 'I'm feeling like a cheapskate bastard - show me the free stuff' button?
http://www.gofish.com/
I didn't -- cough -- work on this or anything. Really.