Top 10 Music Search Engines
Over at Read/WriteWeb, they’re featuring on-line music this week, so we thought we’d help out over here at AltSearchEngines with the Top 10 Alternative Music Search Engines. In addition to listing them for you, I also asked each one to find my #1 song, Rihanna’s Umbrella. After all, if you can’t find that song, “laundry may not be your biggest problem” as Jerry Seinfeld would say! I hope to be able to show you that you will get slightly different results depending on which one of these - all excellent - search engines you select. One note: in order to see the necessary details, there are some larger than usual graphics coming. Please be patient; it’s worth it.
#1) blinkx. Truly one of the larger alts, with a new partnership almost every week it seems. It’s a video search engine, not strictly music, but luckily it’s a music video that I’m looking for. What I like about blinkx is this “wall” feature. It’s pretty self-explanatory. Instead of a list of text results, you get this huge wall of videos! Of course, I could now add all of our video search engines, but that will have to wait.
#2) SkreemR is an Audio Search Engine, and it had no trouble finding the song for me.
#3 podnova lists subscription sites. It found several choices, and many of them went to iTunes where you could subscribe and download them.
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#5 FindSounds is a little different. When it says it finds “sounds,” it means it quite literally. So while it did not find the song, “Umbrella,” it did find the sound of an umbrella opening! It’s not as silly as it might seem. FindSounds can be used to find sound effects for a video you’re working on, for example.
#6 Audiobaba’s server is down. Bad luck.
#7 seeqpod found several renditions of Umbrella, and then with a “click, click” here it opens into a video player. It also has several other nice built-in features such as Tour Dates, Ringtones, News, and more; take a look around, there’s plenty to see in seeqpod.
#8 everyzing (the search engine formerly known as PodZinger) is the only one of the bunch that took me to Alvin and the Chipmunk’s version of “Umbrella,” and, just for that, we have dropped them from the Top 100 list! (Just kidding; here’s the real video they also provided.)
#9 is an old classic; Music-Map. An early music recommendation engine, you can see that when I searched for Rihanna, it formed a kind of tag cloud around her name. The closer the other name(s) the more they should sound like her, hopefully leading you to discover a new artist.
#10 LivePlasma does essentially the same thing, but with brightly colored balloons! Here, the size of the balloon communicates popularity. Unfortunately, LivePlasma was the only one of the 10 that did not even know who Rihanna was. The name in the middle is “Roland Hanna.” They need to do some serious catching up!
If you’re into music, I would encourage you to try all of these out just as I did. Pick your favorite artist, or song, and see which music search engine you like the best. But please come back and leave a quick comment telling us which one you liked the most and why.
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August 14th, 2007 at 1:24 pm
Love love love skreemr. SAlso check out Project Playlist and Hype Machine. Hype Machine is especially cool, because you can listen to all the search results in one pop-out flash player. Great list though…
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I personally think this is the best: http://xchannelmusicmachine.blogspot.com/ there are 25 mp3 search engines in 1 search engine, so you always can find the music you are looking for!
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October 16th, 2007 at 4:44 pm
hey is there any search engine in exsistance that can find the “dat funky man” song from terminator 3 if so please please please please please please post it
November 25th, 2007 at 2:49 pm
I’ll be greatfull if you tell what do you thing about this new music search engine - http://www.muzma.com/ ? May be it worth to be listed at you chart too.
November 25th, 2007 at 7:25 pm
there some good ones there, but http://www.muzma.com/ had to be the best, thanks to yulia, most of them are very narrow searches, there was barely any ones that had my musci, and when it did they didnt work.
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March 18th, 2008 at 8:17 pm
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April 17th, 2008 at 11:37 am
Thanks for the list
April 17th, 2008 at 11:37 am
Thanks
May 4th, 2008 at 9:22 am
http://www.woonz.com/ is simple best MP3 search engine, and download options. Mutch better like other sites in the list.
May 5th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
My interest is to find information for some songs that I have and that info is missing. Fore example the album the composer and the lyric writer. I used the www.gracenote.com (CDDB) as the best searching machine but now thw guys screw things up with the new site they constructed which doesn’t permit you the advanced search. When I looc for a song I want to search by song title AND artist so the results can be closer to the ones I search for. For example I’m looking for info about the song Out of Control by Darude Nation. If I place only the “Out of Control” to the search machine’s box then I get tons of results. When I also place the “Darude Nation” I;m closer to the results that must have. So I would like a search engine like that. Where is it?
June 26th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
I would also suggest giving TasteKid ( http://www.tastekid.com/ ) a try, it’s a search engine that recommends similar or related music (also movies and books), based on what you already like.