gHacks technology news » find-mp3 http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:31:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 SSMunch Audio Search Engine http://www.ghacks.net/2008/05/03/ssmunch-audio-search-engine/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/05/03/ssmunch-audio-search-engine/#comments Sat, 03 May 2008 12:44:41 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=3996 SSMunch is a new fast mp3 search engine that searches various sources on the Internet and provides an interface that makes it possible to listen or download the music that was found during the search. It uses a simplistic design on the frontpage and Ajax at the results pages. The way the results are placed make it easy to download several mp3 at once which is a feature that many music search engines that allow downloads are missing.

SSMunch [via Go Web 2.0] seems to search the three websites eSnips, iJigg and MP3 Realm. That’s at least the three that can be selected individually before performing a search, the only other option is ALL which apparently searches all three of them. A search for Madonna – yeah that’s my default search term when I test mp3 search engines – revealed 69 result pages with 20 songs each. Not all songs that were listed were actually Madonna songs, covers were also included and one of the first was David Hasslehof with La Isla Bonita. I had to get this one !

Some other tests did bring up lesser results but still enough to make this an impressive music search engine. The website is very responsive and good to navigate, music downloads are rather slow though. The one thing that I do not like that much is the way the Listen link has been implemented. If you click on listen a new page opens with controls to start the playback of the song.

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It would be far better if the controls would open on the same page instead. A playlist would be nice as well. Still if you want to download songs SSMunch provides you with a way to do that.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/05/03/ssmunch-audio-search-engine/feed/ 4 Listen and Download Mp3 with Mp3zy http://www.ghacks.net/2008/01/18/listen-and-download-mp3-with-mp3zy/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/01/18/listen-and-download-mp3-with-mp3zy/#comments Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:51:25 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2008/01/18/listen-and-download-mp3-with-mp3zy/ If you are looking for a Google-like search engine – in terms of simplicity and quality – when it comes to searching for, listening to and downloading mp3 music files from the Internet then mp3zy could be just what you are looking for. The interface is as basic as it can get, just a search mask that waits for user input and a search button.

You may enter song names, artist names or albums. The search results page looks always alike though. Song names on the left, listen and download links to the right and the number of pages with additional hits below. If you click on Listen a new page (or tab in Firefox) opens with a basic player with play and stop functions.

A click on Download immediately opens a Save As window where you can save the download. Download speeds can vary greatly since no files are hosted on the mp3zy server and depend solely on the server where the music is hosted.

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Missing are ways to add several files to the music player and a way to download more than one file at once. Other than that it’s a great fast way to find music on the Internet.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/01/18/listen-and-download-mp3-with-mp3zy/feed/ 3 Search for and download mp3 with Clickster http://www.ghacks.net/2007/03/22/search-for-and-download-mp3-with-clickster/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/03/22/search-for-and-download-mp3-with-clickster/#comments Thu, 22 Mar 2007 06:39:01 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/03/22/search-for-and-download-mp3-with-clickster/ Using p2p networks such as Emule or Bittorrent to download mp3 files is not as dangerous as the Music Industry tries to make it appear but there is still the chance that you might face consequences if you share copyrighted music. A much easier and safer way would be to simply use Google to find and download the music that you like. The Music Industry somehow does not seem to care that Google indexes more copyrighted mp3 files than the total number that is available on all p2p networks combined.

Anyways Clickster is a freeware that uses search engines to find mp3 files. All found mp3 files are displayed in a list and you are free to play and download them. The location of the file is displayed as well in case you would like to head out and check it out. Clickster is really easy to use. Just run it after installation and enter a name of an artist or song and the search begins. It can take a couple of seconds before the first results appear, don’t worry at this stage.

Once the first songs appear you can play them immediately. You have to stop the search or wait until it is finished before you can download them though. I did a search for a relative unknown band in the example below and it still found about 10 songs. As you can see the size of the song is given as information as well which can be used as an indicator for the quality of the mp3.

Found reference to Clickster at the Zeropaid blog.

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