http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:24:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 http://www.ghacks.net/2008/01/26/russian-mp3-search-engine-mp3shki/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/01/26/russian-mp3-search-engine-mp3shki/#comments Sat, 26 Jan 2008 11:04:33 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2008/01/26/russian-mp3-search-engine-mp3shki/ MP3 search engines seem to appear by the dozen every week and about 11 of them disappear after a while either because no one uses them or because they have been sued by a record company. I have seen defenses against this. The first is to search and play only music from “legit” sources like Youtube or Last.fm, the other is to host the mp3 search engine in a country that is outside of the Western jurisdiction.

MP3shki.ru does both. It crawls for music at websites like Youtube or Last.fm and is hosted in Russia. The interface is one of the best that I have seen yet, graphics and usability is awesome. Begin by clicking on the little EN link on top to switch to the English user interface, makes it easier.

Then search for an artist or song and watch how the search results are populated on the same page. A click on a search result opens a tiny overlay menu with options to play the song, add it to the playlist, to view the source and the link to the song and to mark it bad.

Songs can also be dragged and dropped into the playlist. It is furthermore possible to create more than one playlist, I suppose you can save them if you register an account.

Tags: find music online, mp3, mp3-search, music, songs

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/01/26/russian-mp3-search-engine-mp3shki/feed/ 4 http://www.ghacks.net/2007/07/17/seeqpod-search-and-listen-to-music/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/07/17/seeqpod-search-and-listen-to-music/#comments Tue, 17 Jul 2007 07:40:03 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/07/17/seeqpod-search-and-listen-to-music/ Seeqpod offers two ways to find new and exciting music. The first is the so called PodCrawler which constantly displays songs that have been found and added to the database. From what I can tell they are crawling official band and company websites as well as podcasts and probably other websites as well.

If you click on the icon before the song title you add it to your playlist which can be saved, shared and embedded. Instead of trying out random finds you can also perform a search for an artist, band name or title and add those found to your playlist as well.

This means that is is relatively easy to build a large playlist with songs that you like and listen to them while online. The link to the song is displayed as well but not clickable by default.

There is however the possibility to use a program like Grab++ to grab the link and send it to a download manager such as Orbit downloader to download the song. I tested this method and it works perfectly.

Tags: download-mp3, find music online, music search, seeqpod

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