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3 Popular Music Search Engine

by Noel on July 19th, 2008

I’m checking out 3 popular music search engines (songza,  seeqpod, and skreemr).     Among the 3, I seem to like songza more.

When using a music search engine,  I expect to search either for a specific song, or I enter an artist and expect to see a list of songs by that artist.    I don’t want to see wikipedia articles or news about those artists.

I tried doing a search for “Duran Duran”, one of my favorite bands in the 80’s and here’s what songza returned.

Songza returned a list of  Duran Duran songs.   The nice thing about this is that if I click one of the songs,  it’ll play it.   Really cool!

The second music search engine I tested was Seeqpod.   Here’s what seeqpod returned.

Honestly, I didn’t like  what I saw.    I has a couple of links to you tube.    Does this mean that if I create a video at youtube and I include the word  “Duran Duran” in the title  my video would be included in this search result page?  Hmm….  we might be seeing a new form of spam. … ‘video spam’.

The 3rd music search engine I tested was skreemr.  Here’s what it looks like.

This one seems better.     One of the results was  “The Reflex” which was a very good Duran Duran song.    I noticed that the link pointed to this file “http://musicglob.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/duran-duran-the-reflex.mp3″

When I click that link,  it’ll play the song.

I guess by creating a music search engine which crawls the net in search for mp3 files uploaded on websites and indexing it,  these search engines won’t be liable for copyright infringement since technically,  those mp3 files are not hosted on the search engines.    They just “found” these files and returns a list of urls where it can be found.

People can then just do a right click and click “save as” and these mp3 files would be downloaded to their hard disks.

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