{"id":324,"date":"2007-05-30T21:06:51","date_gmt":"2007-05-31T04:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wapreview.com\/?p=324"},"modified":"2020-09-26T20:03:32","modified_gmt":"2020-09-27T03:03:32","slug":"find-song-lyrics-with-your-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/324\/","title":{"rendered":"Find Song Lyrics with Your Phone"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Song Lyrics (lyrics.twilightwap.com<\/a>) is neat little mobile web application that lets you look up the lyrics to popular songs. It’s hosted on Twilightwap.com<\/em>, a mobile portal that claims to be the world’s largest with 7 million daily pageviews! The Song Lyrics<\/em> site has lyrics for 320,000 songs.<\/p>\n

When I first heard about this I thought that the way a lyrics search site should work is that you enter a snippet of lyrics and the site does a full-text search to find all songs containing that phrase.<\/p>\n

I had this blues refrain, “feel like a ballgame on a rainy day” running through my head and wanted to find out who the artist was and get the full lyrics.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, Song Lyrics<\/em> doesn’t work that way, you have to enter the song title or artist to search for lyrics. Given that limitation the site works fairly well. You enter a full or partial song title or artist name, the site returns a list of matching titles and lets you read the full text of your chosen song’s lyrics right on your phone.<\/p>\n

\"Search capabilities are limited and a little buggy. But once you figure out the limitations it’s a fun and useful site. Song Lyrics<\/em> searches for titles or artists that contain any <\/strong>of the words in your search phase. Putting a phase in quotes doesn’t change this. Searching artists for “Grateful Dead” returns all artists with either “Grateful” or “Dead” in their names. The Grateful Dead<\/em> themselves appear 20th in the results.<\/p>\n

Searching for titles has an additional wrinkle. Results that match your query appear first, which is good . But after the matching results, Song Lyrics<\/em> keeps listing song titles that have nothing to do with your search. The irrelevant results seem to be the same ones every time – no matter what you search for. Usability isn’t hurt much as long as you know to ignore any results not containing your keywords.<\/p>\n

I do think a full-text mobile lyrics search would be cool but I haven’t found one yet. But Google’s transcoded web search for mobile<\/a> works pretty well for finding lyrics. I Entered “feel like a ballgame on a rainy day” into Google on my phone and the first hit had the lyrics. Digging a little deeper into Google revealed the song is Chuck Willis’ 1954 “I Feel So Bad” which was later covered by Little Milton, Otis Rush, Elvis and The Foghead.<\/p>\n

Song Lyrics: lyrics.twilightwap.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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Song Lyrics (lyrics.twilightwap.com) is neat little mobile web application that lets you look up the lyrics to popular songs. It’s hosted on Twilightwap.com, a mobile portal that claims to be the world’s largest with 7 million daily pageviews! The Song Lyrics site has lyrics for 320,000 songs. When I first heard about this I thought that the way a lyrics search site should work is that you enter a snippet of lyrics and the site does a full-text search to … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29,30,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21688,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions\/21688"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}