Martin
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Inge
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Location: Nieuw Lekkerland @ Holland
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 Posted: Fri Aug 05 2005 09:53
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Hum. Nice, but it's only useful if it would somehow ping the actual existence of the files found. I hate going through rows of dead links. Furthermore, the order is a bit odd.
http://audio.search.yahoo.com/search/audio?ei=UTF-8&fr=sfp&p=inge+janse
I have heaps of own audio material on line (containing my own voice, or carrying tags that it is mine) due to my radio program. Nevertheless, the first rows of links refer to sites that I once linked to, and which might possibly have linked back. I don't see order, only a pseudo-random cluttering of results.
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Martin
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Posted: Fri Aug 05 2005 10:26
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True, the broken links does spoil the service. However - I like the idea of a specialized music search. It would be easier to lookup artist mentioned on this forum for instance. Hopefully the final version is better than the beta.  |
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Inge
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Location: Nieuw Lekkerland @ Holland
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Posted: Fri Aug 05 2005 10:54
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Dude! You opened my eyes! I didn't realize that I could use it to search for music by existing artists that are actually well-known. I did some testing with drum 'n bass artists, and that worked like a charm! Excellent!
One problem though: no distinction is made between locations within on-line shops (such as iTunes and Rhapsody) and open directories or plain websites. That makes searching unnecessary hard.
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Martin
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Posted: Fri Aug 05 2005 11:18
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| Inge wrote: |
One problem though: no distinction is made between locations within on-line shops (such as iTunes and Rhapsody) and open directories or plain websites. That makes searching unnecessary hard.
Inge
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True.
The interface of the engine seems kinda familiar... They did a great job (ripping the google interface) |
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TNK / ATK project
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Joined: 13 May 2003
Location: Village-Neuf, France (Dont's search on the map, it's tiny...)
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technoid
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Joined: 21 Sep 2003
Location: Oregon USA
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Posted: Fri Aug 05 2005 21:45
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If you can't find what you're looking for at Yahoo's audio search beta, then also try AltaVista's (AV) audio search engine. I've had some success using it for a long time now (since it's been out for awhile). Of course, p2p engines are the best places to leech files from, but these public internet search engines are the next best thing. I've found mp3's and midi files that I would've had more trouble finding using normal web text searches.
Go to http://www.altavista.com/audio/default
You might also try Amazon's A9 engine, which is a recently released new engine.
Go to http://a9.com |
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D Vibe
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Location: Sweden
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Posted: Fri Aug 05 2005 22:04
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Found some of my material..
I wonder what's the deal with the "Quality" scale ...
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Sunbuster
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Joined: 05 May 2003
Location: Finland
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Posted: Sat Aug 06 2005 08:29
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Found some of my material..
I wonder what's the deal with the "Quality" scale ...
/Daniel
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It seems the quality scale has something to do with the bitrate of the file, higher bitrate=better quality? |
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