Hey, guess who popped up with a lyric server? Yahoo! Music - Lyrics links you into 400,000 songs. And only 2 of them mention librarians. Fancy that. It's a nice idea - you get to see the lyrics, and by 'see' that's exactly what I mean, Yahoo has ensured that you can't cut and paste which rather limits the functionality. However, you can play 30 second samples, except you can't with the two librarian tunes that I found, though I'm sure they'll be happy to sell them to you. Though it would worry me - if I wanted to buy a song, but Yahoo couldn't play me a sample, why not, and would that actually stop me buying it? It probably would, yes.
How good is it? I have no real idea to be honest, but I tried the librarian lyric search across a number of other lyric engines and this is what I got:
Searchlyrics.org gave 5 results
Astraweb lyric search engine gave 2 results, but different ones to Yahoo
Get lyrical also gave 2 results, different again.
The Lyricserver gave 1 result
Lyricslook gave me 4 results, with 3 different songs that none of the others found.
This tells us 2 things. Firstly, we are all in desperate need of a meta lyric search engine, and if anyone now goes away and makes one, I want my 10%, ok? Secondly, we need more songs about librarians. There must be librarians out there who can sing and play musical instruments, surely! They could call themselves 'The Boolean Rappers' or some such. Comments welcome - what's the best name you can come up with for a band of musical librarians?
Our never-quite-formed grad school band selected the name Dublin Core.
Posted by: Greg | May 01, 2007 at 12:59 AM