Use lyrics to find songs: Techniques in searching music



You are working on a certain project, you need to use some songs and license it. You have imagined the ideal lyrics or line, now the problem is; how will you find songs about it?

This is a common searchers problem worst before and gets better today. Why? It is because before, music consumers used to talk to music publishers a lot using phone or in meetings and describe some ideal lines, some applications or specific situations ideal for their project. Music publishers then plugged songs, days or weeks later and see if it qualifies or not. Most of the time, this is a very time consuming process and takes a lot of effort and energy to get the right song for the right project. Today, anyone can use internet search engine like: http://www.google.com, http://www.yahoo.com and http://www.bing.com and get results right away. It is now a question of how to actually do it.

One of the most important elements required for any song application/implementation are the song lyrics. It is because lyrics describe specific scenarios that could support a particular application. Of course, it is not that easy to dictate to a songwriter to request certain songs to be written and then tomorrow you will have your fully produced song.

The best solution is to use internet. If you can talk to your music publisher, the better but if you need things to get faster, then use internet search engines. In the search engine box for example http://www.google.com; you can enter your keywords that constitute a part of the lyrics you would like to see.

Case example:

a. You are searching a song about global warming. You need this certain piece of lyrics to be similar to the song: “Plant trees” “Save the environment”. You would like to use internet search engines to find this song.

First, go to http://www.google.com and in the search box type these phrases(in bold-italics):

Song about global warming “Plant trees” “Save environment” “Save the environment” “lyrics”

The first result is not relevant. So your next strategy is to make a broader search, broke down your search query into parts:

1st search query: “Save environment” song “lyrics” – no relevant results
2nd search query: “Save the environment” lyrics song

search query

Relevant results:

http://www.mp3lyrics.org/s/slick-shoes/by-whats-right/

http://www.savetheplanetsong.org/

3rd search query: “Song about global warming”

Relevant results:

http://www.last.fm/group/350+Songs+About+Global+Warming

http://fliiby.com/file/311176/69r0otxip1.html

If you place a certain phrase inside quotes (“) this means you are looking for exact match in the text. You can use the principle illustrated above to search songs based on a piece of lyrics you need.

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