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?
Re:Wow.. step ahead? (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Wow.. step ahead? (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Wow.. step ahead? (Score:3, Insightful)
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Re:Wow.. step ahead? (Score:5, Informative)
Jedidiah.
Re:Wow.. step ahead? (Score:3, Insightful)
But illegal download? I'm not doing anything illegal when I search for mp3's with Google. At best, the linked site might not have the rights to distribute the file, but that's a different thing altogether.
Re:Wow.. step ahead? (Score:4, Insightful)
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Re:Wow.. step ahead? (Score:2)
OK, I'll bite: What principle would that be?
Re:Wow.. step ahead? (Score:1, Troll)
I should add that I'm not American, so the american centric view of Yahoo doesn't really jive with me. I guess that's part of the reason why I neither use it or like it. :)
Re:Wow.. step ahead? (Score:2)
You know, the people who prefer one Linux distro over another have reasons for having that opinion. The only reason that supports your 'principles' seems to be an uninformed idea that Yahoo is more American centric then Google.
Re:Wow.. step ahead? (Score:2)
Take a look at the norwegian Yahoo, and tell me if you think it's any good (www.yahoo.no).
You know, the people who prefer one Linux distro over another have reasons for having that opinion. The only reason that supports your 'principles' seems to be an uninformed idea that Yahoo is more American centric then Google.
You're givi
Re:Wow.. step ahead? (Score:1)
Out of interest, what principle?
Re:Wow.. step ahead? (Score:1)
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=springsteen+f iletype%3Amp3&btnG=Google+Search [google.com]
Oh, that's why it is better than Google.
google better? (Score:1)
Searching for that on yahoo audio search, zip.
Google, it was the third result. Without any filetype filters or anything.
Hmmm.
Re:Wow.. step ahead? (Score:2)
And what principle is that?
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Uh oh... (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Uh oh... (Score:1)
Re:Don't worry (Score:1)
And all you need... (Score:2, 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.
Re:And all you need... (Score:2)
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Re:And all you need... (Score:2)
Wouldn't it be cool if you could serach for images in a similar fashion. You could have a 10x10 grid where you could place different colours ("The image I'm looking for was light blue in the top half and green in the bottom half")...
Yahoo's been doing a lot of cool stuff recently (eg their Creative Commons Search [yahoo.com]) but for some reason they don't seem to get the recognition that Google has.
Re:And all you need... (Score:1)
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?
Re:Baidu, the "Chinese Google" has something simil (Score:4, Informative)
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 [yahoo.com] 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.
Jedidiah.
Copyrighted materials (Score:4, Informative)
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Re:Copyrighted materials (Score:3, Informative)
Sure, but they provide a nice overview. The coldplay seach for instance gives you this [yahoo.com] (after you select a specific track). Now not only is there a free download version via ArtistDirect, it provides a nice pricing guide for comparison shopping (with both buy and download and subscription options priced), as well as actually list
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Re:Copyrighted materials (Score:1, Troll)
http://search.yahoo.com/cc [yahoo.com] its there for ages now.
As Google acquiring CIA backed map company and offering 7 year old service with incompatible interface is more important news to some, you didn't notice it I guess.
(yea down mod me google fanatics)
Re:Copyrighted materials (Score:2)
This is why I give troll mods a +6 modifier.
Its a Craptastic marketing ploy (Score:2)
Why would I waste time doing this went I can simply hop on a Usenet server or Itunes and get what I want instantly? If both of those services and the Internet at large don't have it I'm sure as fuck not going to go through the trouble of signing up for another online store that A) has its own form of DRM that won't work with my player and B) would clash with what music software I'm
Impressed (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Impressed (Score:1)
Re:Which song? [n/t] (Score:2)
FCC (Score:2, Insightful)
I'd like... (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:I'd like... (Score:1)
Re:its called Google (Score:1)
I can do that by phone (Score:1)
A few years ago, there was a service announced which would do this - just need to hand the result off to the search engine afterwards. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/22
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I was sceptical (Score:5, Informative)
Podcast? (Score:1, Offtopic)
Re:Podcast? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Podcast? (Score:2)
Re:Podcast? (Score:2)
Are the results independent? (Score:2)
This option is disabled by default. I'm getting the feeling that this seach might just be a marketing tool for some major labels. What do others think?
Re:Are the results independent? (Score:1)
What about international audiences? (Score:2)
Apart from this I think Audio Search is a great move from Yahoo. For once they've come with a search related service, that's not only a "me too" feature.
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"
You mean like this? (Score:2, Informative)
http://www.shazam.com/uk/do/home [shazam.com]
http://www.petting-zoo.net/~deadbeef/archive/5393. html [petting-zoo.net]
Re:You mean like this? (Score:2)
An audio-meta search tool is hardly rocket science - but that stuff above is more like it - though I don't like that they are attempting to sell the service.
Let's give this a try... (Score:5, Funny)
Search results:
750,234 results found.
Hey look, most top 40 songs from the last 10 years. This is pretty handy!
OK, this should tell us once and for all (Score:5, Funny)
2 results found:
The Beatles - "I'm So Tired"
The Beatles - "She's Leaving Home"
There you go! Proof!
Yahoo and Shazam? (Score:2)
The return of yahoo? (Score:2)
Yet Another Great Victory! (Score:1)
Gentlemen! We have managed to slashdot Yahoo!
Re:Yet Another Great Victory! (Score:1)
No SFX ? (Score:1, Informative)
Even the Wilhelm scream comes up empty :/
Lyric search (Score:2, Interesting)
I've been secretly screaming for such a service... (Score:2)
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amazing! (Score:1)
I play in a band. When searching for us using google, all kind of non-related stuff comes out also (as expected, btw). But with this engine, it displayed our soungs, and to amaze me a bit more, it also knew somehow, that we are unsigned
Anyway, I welcome this new feature and hope it gets popular!
Check us out btw, the band's name is Soterios.
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.
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 tho
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.
Just use ogg for chrissakes (Score:1)
I missed it... (Score:2, Funny)
Searching within audio files (Score:1)
RC.
LOL, Horror Screams = SEX (Score:1)
I like Beta (Score:2)
YaHash Lookups? (Score:2)
The essential link here is getting just the hash, rather than download
Re:YaHash Lookups? (Score:1)
http://developer.yahoo.net/search/audio/index.html [yahoo.net]
songSearch is probably the method you'll want.
What will RIAA say? (Score:2)
I am a bete tester for google... (Score:1)
peace
Not bad. (Score:1)
BTW the group is Ten Hands. They split just after releasing with a major lable and formed jazz bands (I heard).
Re:Not bad. (Score:2)
http://www.mmguide.musicmatch.com/artist/artist.c [musicmatch.com]
Just can't be happy, can you? (Score:2)
Some people seem unable to ever be happy. We give you bread, and you complain because it's not sliced.
Department of Redundancy Department (Score:2)
And how else would you peruse a free service? EMW2K?
Gofish does it better (Score:2, Informative)
I didn't -- cough -- work on this or anything. Really.
Dang (Score:1)
THAT would be amazing, I think a service like that was/is offered for cell-phones to identify a song in the background...or something.
I don't have a secret decoder ring on me... (Score:2)
What are you talking about?
Re:Yahoo's music search is lame (Score:1)
fwiw, I did a search "centralpc sermons" and found the MP3's of our church's sermons... or 46 of them anyway (far from all). They're free.
So, not everything there is pay-stuff, though I can't prove that for music.
Searching for data that is in the metadata of the MP3s gives odd results. If "Any" is selected some
Re:im searching for a song i heard.... (Score:2)
Imagine trying to find a song which is composed nearly entirely of metallic-garbage-can-tops drums!