4 weeks in the zone = my latest app (just for fun).

[agentbleu]

I just finished working on a 4 week project that seems to have turned out pretty OK.

http://www.myplaylist.biz/lyrics/

Do let me know what you think...

[jobeirne]

Thanks, I've been holding out for a lyrics site that doesn't make me feel like my computer just contracted the clap.

[agentbleu]

yes spam sites seem to dominate this space. Thought it could do with some respectability. hehe

[forsaken]

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!

[agentbleu]

The flash player is custom built, I built it using the bones of the first app which is on myplaylist.biz (main).

[timcederman]

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)

[agentbleu]

erm. Being a hacker... have a guess. (i.e would like not to say). Hope this does not sound rude.

[pistoriusp]

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...

[agentbleu]

u just caught me checking something hence the array. looking into the search problem now. thanks

[shawndrost]

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...

[agentbleu]

'You're getting text encoding funkiness --??' please explain what you see, all looks good here?

[nir]

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.

[agentbleu]

It is boolean enabled, so you can add in operators such as + = and - = not "" to get actual etc.

[deathbob]

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?

[agentbleu]

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.

[asnyder]

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.

[agentbleu]

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.

[mannylee1]

Awesome. A barebones site that does what it is supposed to do. Great job.

[dc2k08]

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.

[agentbleu]

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.

[dime]

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.

[anewaccountname]

>Using someone's copyrighted material without their consent is never ok.

Sometimes it is fine.

[tstegart]

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.

[agentbleu]

feel free to give your thoughts regardless

[kleevr]

Nice.

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

Nifty.

[bharris]

Also interested in where you got the database, it seems to be missing a lot of my favorite artists. Bon Iver for example.

[agentbleu]

I have about 300K currently, I will add in more soon.

[glhoffman]

Pretty cool. Thanks, just bookmarked it.

[Raphael]

I'd like the volume control bigger.

[agentbleu]

in full screen mode controls are more visible, its really best in that mode. So I encourage that rather than bigger more invasive controls

[auston]

Really Great!

[paulsb]

Very nice.