Yahoo! Launches Audio Search Beta 128
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."
Wow.. step ahead? (Score:2, Interesting)
First innovation for Yahoo! since.. a long time ago.. or Google's imitation?
Uh oh... (Score:2, Interesting)
And all you need... (Score:2, Interesting)
Baidu, the "Chinese Google" has something similar (Score:3, Interesting)
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?
Impressed (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:And all you need... (Score:5, Interesting)
(As I was writing this I remembered the name)
Query by hum, here is the website. querybyhum.cs.nyu.edu [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.
I'd like... (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Copyrighted materials (Score:1, Interesting)
It goes like this.. (Score:4, Interesting)
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"
Lyric search (Score:2, Interesting)
Most usefull for publishing perhaps? (Score:2, Interesting)
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.
Re:amazing! (Score:2, Interesting)
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.
Good way to track down pirated songs (Score:3, Interesting)
I am pretty sure other trailer music never intended for distribution is locatable with this service.