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SingingFish Alternatives: Where to Find Music
With the recent demise of SingingFish, many people have been commenting on what other sites are out there for them to find music. A former employee of SingingFish even commented briefly on the situation.
Below is a list I will be updating with music search alternatives (even the UK AOL audio search that still works just like SingingFish). It will be sorted alphabetically. Feel free to leave a comment if you know of a site not on the list or if you would like to add information to my description of a site. I will keep updating this post as I hear of other sites.
AOL’s Audio Search - Seems to be built from SingingFish technology, with less information displayed. It shows you what quality a file is: Low, Medium, or High. It doesn’t let you refine by file-type, doesn’t display the file-type in search results, and it doesn’t show the size of the file (only the duration/time). Also doesn’t show the bitrate.
AOL Search UK - Audio - AOL Search UK was sold by AOL, and therefore their Audio Search is using the SingingFish technology with all its bells and whistles. They changed the look of the site, but they still had advanced search to filter by file-type. Search results display the bitrate and file-type. How long this will remain operational is anyone’s guess. (via Steve in the comments) (April 12 Update: Advanced search is now gone)
Dogpile Audio Search - Shows you file type, size, and playtime. Many results show as having been found on SingingFish, so this could hurt the site’s results with SingingFish’s demise unless they still have access to the licensed version.
eSpew - Finds lots of music, but only searches for mp3s. It displays file size in search results, and you can use their advanced search to filter your search by a minimum or maximum file size. Also doesn’t show the bitrate, or much valuable information other than what was already mentioned. (Via Katerine in the comments)
Internet Archive: Audio Archive - Collection of audio recordings. Ranges from alternative news programming, to Grateful Dead concerts, to Old Time Radio shows, to book and poetry recordings, to original music contributed by users. You won’t find many popular songs here, but you will find remixes and great user-contributed content.
Project Playlist - Offers a music search engine. You can add songs you find to a playlist and then play them in that pre-determined order. Very interesting idea, but no information on the files in search results.
Tags: SingingFish
A great music search engine. Probably the best out there. Allows creating playlists, saving searches, downloading songs, and more. http://46up.com + http://musicat.com
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Sorry about not commenting here, Jason.
I’m VERY hesitant to comment on most WordPress blogs, because of a single reason:
“Mail (required)”
There is NO reason whatsoever to require an e-mail address, and as you can see, I usually fill it with an e-mail address not belonging to me. I vastly prefer a visual CAPTCHA, and although it’s less accessible, it’s much better as a spam filter.
I don’t even think Nathan has my mail address. Not out of privacy considerations, but out of principle.
Either way, my compliments on the nice blog post. As I said over on the Blognewschannel, I like AOL UK the best, even if it’s still worse than SingingFish. It’s most likely to replace the fish for me, although the URL isn’t “stuck in my fingers yet” - next time I’m looking for anything audio-related, I’m most likely to try different venues.
So if the Fish was caught by the music industry, which noticed the top ten searches done there, too bad for them. Don’t forget, I found quite some nice and legal music there - think Ian Ritchie, the composer of the Lonely Planet theme. [http://ian-ritchie.com/lp.htm]
A very nice site, I didn’t even know this existed. I love how you can search for songs and generate your playlists on the fly to keep. I’ll definitely be adding this to my bookmarks. Thanks for opening our eyes :)
Hey, eSnips.com is a really great site as well. Check it out!
Well , I went to all the above links that were posted and even though one poster said that Webjay was and I quote: “*still the same-old SingingFish, with a new look.” I did not find this true. Nothing at all like singing fish None of the above links are like singingfish. Singing fish was very , very , simple. No playlists to create. Just simply find the link and right click “save as” and it would either download streaming or download and then play. This is what I am looking for.
I am not a computer whiz. Just a novice who doesn’t know anything about creating playlists and such. Have read “How” , but find it all Greek. Looking for a simple method of finding a file and saving it . Just like singing fish. Simple , trouble free, and nice. None above qualify.
I can’t believe it the Aol search uk site has now removed the advanced search page… Will the powers that be just leave us alone.. does anyone know how to get the old results pages to work (the ones which show file type)..?
@Jillian: The poster has an asterisk pointing to AOL, not webjay. But it’s still not “same old.” If you want real simple, maybe these 10 singingfish alternatives will satisfy you, although a couple are listed here as well.
Webjay isn’t the same SingingFish, AOL Audio Search UK was.
You might want to check out http://skreemr.com as well - it’s mp3 only, but there’s lots of stuff and the links are checked regularly to make sure they work.
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Just wanted to let you know about Grabb.it, which is new MP3 search tool. We also use XSPF, like Webjay did, and we have a few other tricks up our sleeve as well. Thanks for putting together this list!
Use SE like google or yahoo, a lot of stuff could be found there.
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