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Re:4 weeks in the zone = my latest app (just for fun). by jobeirne on Tuesday July 01, 2008 @02:37PM (#233284)
Thanks, I've been holding out for a lyrics site that doesn't make me feel like my computer just contracted the clap.
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Re:4 weeks in the zone = my latest app (just for fun). by agentbleu on Tuesday July 01, 2008 @04:54PM (#233506)
yes spam sites seem to dominate this space. Thought it could do with some respectability. hehe
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Re:4 weeks in the zone = my latest app (just for fun). by forsaken on Tuesday July 01, 2008 @05:37PM (#233568)
Yea, I've written some similar code to this for fetching the lyrics based on arbitrary parts of the song. It's a fun challenge, and getting the correct lyrics is also hard. Well done on that account.

I see that you are using a flash player to display Flickr photos, presumably appropriated tagged, while playing an mp3 of the song?

I like the site though, well done!

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Re:4 weeks in the zone = my latest app (just for fun). by agentbleu on Wednesday July 02, 2008 @04:24AM (#233914)
The flash player is custom built, I built it using the bones of the first app which is on myplaylist.biz (main).
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Re:4 weeks in the zone = my latest app (just for fun). by timcederman on Tuesday July 01, 2008 @06:20PM (#233610)
Some great data sourcing, which really makes it compelling. Do you mind if I asked where you got the db from? (just out of curiosity)
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Re:4 weeks in the zone = my latest app (just for fun). by agentbleu on Wednesday July 02, 2008 @04:09AM (#233904)
erm. Being a hacker... have a guess. (i.e would like not to say). Hope this does not sound rude.
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Re:4 weeks in the zone = my latest app (just for fun). by pistoriusp on Wednesday July 02, 2008 @07:52AM (#233996)
http://www.myplaylist.biz/Coldplay/Lost/269837

this was displayed on the page above:

array(1) { [0]=> array(2) { [0]=> string(8) "coldplay" [1]=> int(0) } } here1 coldplayhere2 coldplay

And if I take the lyrics from this page, "Just because I'm loosing" or Just because I'm loosing, it doesn't find Coldplay. Am I incorrect in assuming it should find this?

I think it's pretty cool, but I would give the user the option of "playing" the song rather than doing it automatically. In my experience most people are already listening to the songs which they are trying to find the lyrics for.

This page also produces an error, I don't think Sting did a Wu tan song, but I could be wrong on that as well:

http://www.myplaylist.biz/Sting/Wu-Tang-Cream-Team-Line-Up/1...

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Re:4 weeks in the zone = my latest app (just for fun). by agentbleu on Wednesday July 02, 2008 @08:46AM (#234025)
u just caught me checking something hence the array. looking into the search problem now. thanks
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Re:4 weeks in the zone = my latest app (just for fun). by agentbleu on Wednesday July 02, 2008 @06:12PM (#234622)
Turns out in FullText search In boolean mode, there are many stop words, "it's" "I'M" are just 2 of them. Seems I have hit a limitation there on the tech. It will have to be as good as it gets I'm afraid. Short of putting in a custom search engine, that's as fas as the tech allows for them moment, unless I build in a workaround to change all single quotes something else then change back. I will sleep on that...
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Re:4 weeks in the zone = my latest app (just for fun). by shawndrost on Tuesday July 01, 2008 @04:44PM (#233490)
Cool stuff! A few bugs: under the "recently viewed" header, the same song appears twice in a row. You're getting text encoding funkiness -- http://www.myplaylist.biz/Coldplay/Cemeteries-Of-London/2698...
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Re:4 weeks in the zone = my latest app (just for fun). by agentbleu on Tuesday July 01, 2008 @04:55PM (#233509)
'You're getting text encoding funkiness --??' please explain what you see, all looks good here?
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Re:4 weeks in the zone = my latest app (just for fun). by ra on Tuesday July 01, 2008 @08:01PM (#233661)
Same here - characters in the lyrics aren't displaying correctly - like the character encoding is incorrect. (Firefox on Windoze xp)

You need to sanitize the text you are storing to unicode. Here's a cut and paste:

Singing la lalalalala la lé… And the night over London lay…

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Re:4 weeks in the zone = my latest app (just for fun). by agentbleu on Wednesday July 02, 2008 @04:25AM (#233915)
hmm thanks looks like a db rash. I will have a look at that. cheers
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Re:4 weeks in the zone = my latest app (just for fun). by nir on Tuesday July 01, 2008 @08:13PM (#233667)
This is very cool :)

By default, if the search string consists of more than 1 word do you do an OR or AND search? It seems OR from the results I'm getting, but most people now are conditioned by Google to expect an AND search (which really makes more sense..)

Great work, either way.

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Re:4 weeks in the zone = my latest app (just for fun). by agentbleu on Wednesday July 02, 2008 @04:22AM (#233913)
It is boolean enabled, so you can add in operators such as + = and - = not "" to get actual etc.
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Re:4 weeks in the zone = my latest app (just for fun). by deathbob on Tuesday July 01, 2008 @05:13PM (#233537)
Found all three songs I looked for first try, but site is getting pretty slow. Might try whittling down the number of results returned. Also saw text encoding funkiness. Really nice tho, bookmarked. How are you getting the songs and pictures in the flash on the left?
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Re:4 weeks in the zone = my latest app (just for fun). by agentbleu on Wednesday July 02, 2008 @04:12AM (#233907)
hmm, site getting slow. I have to be careful about robots, they can kill it, as its all generated dynamically thus memory is an issue and I just downgraded memory as I like to run a tight ship.

The flash widget I built, its all custom, Images from Flickr and MP3s sourced through Seeqpod, both have shit hot APIs.

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Re:4 weeks in the zone = my latest app (just for fun). by deathbob on Wednesday July 02, 2008 @04:15PM (#234498)
Well the flash thing is really cool, it's awesome to have the song to listen to and because the images are pulled from wherever sometimes they're hilarious :). Really nice piece of work!
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Re:4 weeks in the zone = my latest app (just for fun). by agentbleu on Wednesday July 02, 2008 @08:42AM (#234022)
also just checked slow logs. seems was needed some more optimizing
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Re:4 weeks in the zone = my latest app (just for fun). by asnyder on Tuesday July 01, 2008 @04:22PM (#233458)
Pretty sweet service. Where did you get a lyrics web service? I was looking for a lyrics web service some time ago for the following idea: certain times when listening to a song it would be useful/more entertaining if the lyrics would follow along with the song similar to karaoke, this could be done by running the song through some speech recognition software such as nuance to get the approximate words/time during the song. You would then tie that into the lyrics through the web service and would be able to display the lyrics along with the song for almost any song. This would be helpful to me anyway, and I think add an extra level of connection and understanding to your songs.
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Re:4 weeks in the zone = my latest app (just for fun). by agentbleu on Tuesday July 01, 2008 @04:52PM (#233503)
there are some lyrics sources about, one i found after was: http://lyricwiki.org/Main_Page

But mine come from other resources :)

Nice idea, yours, but too complicated me thinks for my style, I prefer elegance, as in not trying to do too much but do what you dodo well.

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Re:4 weeks in the zone = my latest app (just for fun). by mannylee1 on Tuesday July 01, 2008 @04:20PM (#233456)
Awesome. A barebones site that does what it is supposed to do. Great job.
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Re:4 weeks in the zone = my latest app (just for fun). by dc2k08 on Tuesday July 01, 2008 @04:33PM (#233472)
yeah i liked this. searched for hooker in minneapolis, and not only did i get the correct lyrics but i also got sweet version by neko case to hear. i have been looking for it for ages..whata bonus. nice one. just to nit pick. i would out-source your logo. try 99designs for $150-$200.
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Re:4 weeks in the zone = my latest app (just for fun). by agentbleu on Tuesday July 01, 2008 @04:57PM (#233511)
Sorry m8, I know the logo might be a bit cheap (30 mins work) as I am, but I really could care less about the logo, I'm more fanatical about making it actually work well.
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Re:4 weeks in the zone = my latest app (just for fun). by dc2k08 on Tuesday July 01, 2008 @06:16PM (#233604)
you have the ring tone but you could always link the sheet music for another source of revenue
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Re:4 weeks in the zone = my latest app (just for fun). by agentbleu on Wednesday July 02, 2008 @04:27AM (#233917)
yes good idea. many thanks
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Re:4 weeks in the zone = my latest app (just for fun). by dime on Tuesday July 01, 2008 @07:39PM (#233647)
I would highly suggest you get a license to feature the lyrics on your site if you intend on going mainstream. Aside from legal troubles you could face, I think intellectual property should be respected. Using someone's copyrighted material without their consent is never ok.
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Re:4 weeks in the zone = my latest app (just for fun). by anewaccountname on Tuesday July 01, 2008 @09:41PM (#233733)
>Using someone's copyrighted material without their consent is never ok.

Sometimes it is fine.

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Re:4 weeks in the zone = my latest app (just for fun). by rms on Wednesday July 02, 2008 @04:35AM (#233923)
It is almost definitely fine if you live outside of the USA.
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Re:4 weeks in the zone = my latest app (just for fun). by agentbleu on Wednesday July 02, 2008 @04:30AM (#233918)
It seems the norm in this sector is to be open about this data (lyrics), all of the main sites have same and none are in license agreements. Plus others are opening shop with APIs for access.
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Re:4 weeks in the zone = my latest app (just for fun). by tstegart on Tuesday July 01, 2008 @02:31PM (#233275)
Are we supposed to comment on the coding or the business model? Not bad for four weeks coding. Might have a little trouble making money with the copyright issues involved.
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Re:4 weeks in the zone = my latest app (just for fun). by agentbleu on Tuesday July 01, 2008 @04:58PM (#233512)
feel free to give your thoughts regardless
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Re:4 weeks in the zone = my latest app (just for fun). by tstegart on Wednesday July 02, 2008 @12:37PM (#234243)
The work is good. The interface isn't very polished, but it sounds like you haven't really worked on it yet, so I assume you'll polish it up later.

On the copyright side, there have been issues in the past (http://news.cnet.com/Lyrics-site-negotiates-copyright-issues...). I'm not sure how they were worked out, or if a defense of "everyone else is doing it" justifies reliance. You should look into any updates in the area, and also be aware that one day someone might disagree with you on if its ok (and by disagree I mean sue).

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Re:4 weeks in the zone = my latest app (just for fun). by agentbleu on Wednesday July 02, 2008 @06:08PM (#234617)
yes that was like 10 years ago Published: February 8, 1999 11:25 AM PST

I think things have gotten out of hand since then.

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Re:4 weeks in the zone = my latest app (just for fun). by kleevr on Tuesday July 01, 2008 @04:25PM (#233461)
Nice.

I vaguely remembered a song by Cake, knew it contained the phrase "prize fighter". Found the song "Shadow Stabbing" almost instantly.

Nifty.

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Re:4 weeks in the zone = my latest app (just for fun). by bharris on Tuesday July 01, 2008 @08:35PM (#233683)
Also interested in where you got the database, it seems to be missing a lot of my favorite artists. Bon Iver for example.
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Re:4 weeks in the zone = my latest app (just for fun). by agentbleu on Wednesday July 02, 2008 @04:14AM (#233909)
I have about 300K currently, I will add in more soon.
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Re:4 weeks in the zone = my latest app (just for fun). by glhoffman on Tuesday July 01, 2008 @02:27PM (#233270)
Pretty cool. Thanks, just bookmarked it.
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Re:4 weeks in the zone = my latest app (just for fun). by Raphael on Tuesday July 01, 2008 @09:00PM (#233703)
I'd like the volume control bigger.
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Re:4 weeks in the zone = my latest app (just for fun). by agentbleu on Wednesday July 02, 2008 @04:13AM (#233908)
in full screen mode controls are more visible, its really best in that mode. So I encourage that rather than bigger more invasive controls
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Re:4 weeks in the zone = my latest app (just for fun). by auston on Tuesday July 01, 2008 @08:50PM (#233694)
Really Great!
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Re:4 weeks in the zone = my latest app (just for fun). by paulsb on Wednesday July 02, 2008 @04:44AM (#233930)
Very nice.
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