Legal mp3 search engines search the Internet for mp3 files that they can legally provide to their users. These are mp3 that are provided as samples by record labels and artists, free mp3 released under a license like Creative Commons or other audio files that can be freely distributed.
Songr is a Windows application that will search ten mp3 search engines for music that the user is looking for. Among the mp3 search engines that are supported are playlist.com, Skreemr or Mp3realm. It will also search Youtube indirectly by utilizing the Justhearit service. The developers plan to add nine mp3 search engines (including Groveshark) to the program to increase the quality and quantity of search results.
A search is performed by entering an album, artist or song name in the search form in the main interface. Songr will then search the various mp3 search engines and return the combined results of that search. The name, duration, bitrate, size, search engine and relevancy are shown in the search results. These information are not always displayed which means that they are only supported by some of the search engines.
A right click on a row in the search results opens a context menu with options to play or download the selected song. Another interesting option of Songr is the search by lyrics feature. The program tries to identify a few words that are entered and displays possible artists and songs which can then be searched for with a double-click.
Songr requires the Microsoft .net Framework 3.5 and is compatible with Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7. It can be downloaded from the developer’s website.
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wow.. this is a really useful software. I do end up searching all over the internet for legal mp3 songs. This application would do all the work for me :)
Looks good, but what is the password please?
Tried installing on both my desktop and laptop… both WinXP SP3 with .Net Framework 3.5 SP1… in both cases, installs fine… but when I run it, nothing happens.
I don’t know completely if this is related to Songr. But, as soon as I finished the download of the installation file, Windows Security Essentials detected two malicious items.
These were:
TrojanDownloader:Win32/Waledac.C
Trojan:Win32/Alureon.CT
Downloaded and tried to instal twice included repair of .net 3.5. Still doesn’t work. Uninstalled and consigned to bin!
No issues on my Vista SP1 desktop. Works like a charm.
i’ll also add that www.downloads.nl is a good source for the occasional MP3 i download. i’ve found a couple of songs on it that i couldn’t find on Songr even.