The other two features are that now Google will be smarter about identifying songs based on snippets of lyrics you enter, thanks to a partnership with Gracenote; and the search engine will also provide direct links to relevant Pandora, Imeem, and Rhapsody pages.
The reason Google is doing all of this: higher quality search results mean more traffic, and that means more ad sales. In other words, you'll still buy your songs through Lala or one of the other partners, which isn't a terrible deal considering Lala has probably the cheapest option around right now for � la carte song and album purchases. (The subscription-based eMusic is cheaper if you buy your music in bulk.)
"Google Lifts the Curtains on Its New Music Service" [New York Times]
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@PsiCop: No, I know those. This isn't classical, it's rock-ier. Parsons-wise, it's *ud, and the notes are a dotted-quarter on the 2, a dotted-quarter on the three-and, and a quarter on the 1 of the second measure.
Anyway, drives me crazy.
]]>I was reeeeeally hoping this would include some ability to look songs up by Parsons code, but it's apparently just lyrics.
Which doesn't get me any closer to finding out the name of that one instrumental song that's like BAAAH-DAAH-DUM! that they always play in action movies while the characters all walk away from a huge explosion in slow motion.
]]>@humphrmi: Paying royalties for previews and searches is up for debate (at least to the asshats at BMI and ASCAP).
They argue that the previews are considered a performance under Copyright law and make a false (IMO) comparison to ringtones.
]]>I'm brought back here thanks to your link, Where's my Bowie? :)
]]>Maybe Google has redefined terms like "rolled out" and "lifted the curtain" and all of those other phrases that imply "it's working right now" but doesn't actually mean that it is? Back in the day, when we "rolled out" a software product, or an update to one, it meant it was actually there and working. A "formal rollout" was even more definitive than that. Does the phrase "formal rollout" have a new meaning that I wasn't aware of?
... Just thinking out loud. Given that it's Google we're talking about, I don't expect a coherent answer.
]]>I'm banning you from the Alliance of Magicians.
]]>"parent directory" mp3 OR wma OR ogg OR wav David Bowie -ht...
and still help myself, apparently, judging by the first result.
]]>Are they paying royalties? I imagine if they are not the RIAA will sue them for "performance rights"
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