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TubeOke: Sing Along with YouTube Videos

Tired of watching music videos online and searching for the lyrics at the same time? It can be such a pain when you want to see the video play while singing along to it and you and you just can’t seem to remember the lyrics. You’ll have to search for the lyrics on another browser window and place it side by side the playing video, or else you’ll only hear the music while reading the lyrics.

TubeOke is an online solution for people who are looking for music videos and lyrics at the same time. You can watch the video play and get an instant copy of the lyrics on the side. Use the site as you normally search YouTube. Enter the artist or the song title and hit return/enter. Choose from the video thumbnails and you’re all set. You can sing and watch the video at the same time.

The site is very simple and easy to use. If you’re expecting to see a Video Oke style presentation, then you are mistaken. It only displays the lyrics along the video. You don’t get to see streaming lyrics that plays along with the video timeline. That being said, it will still save you some time if you wish to sing along to a music video on YouTube. No need to search for the lyrics on other websites.

Tags: Lyrics, songs, tubeoke, videos, youtube

ScreenTunes: Soundtrack and Movie Finder

ScreenTunes is your helping hand in finding out which movie you might have heard a particular song or which song was featured in a particular movie. You can also use the lyrics of the song in as your search tag. It’s basically a search engine that was toned down and tweaked for specific tasks and combined with multimedia features.

You can filter your search by music, lyrics and movie. Just type-in the name of a song, a lyric from a song, or the name of a movie on the search bar. Select the proper mode for your search and hit the search button. It will return the search results of the related search which contains short information about the songs. You can listen to the songs without leaving ScreenTunes or you can head on over to the iTunes or Amazon store so you can make your purchase.

This is another way of discovering new songs through new movies. If you want to find out new songs that are used on a movie that you have seen, ScreenTunes could be a great help to you. You can also use it to search for a song by just entering the lyrics of the song. Its ability to play the songs is a plus when looking for a particular song title that returned several search results. This will make your search faster and provides better user experience for those who are in the mood for discovering movie related music.

Tags: Movie Finder, Movie Soundtracks, Music, ScreenTunes, songs, Soundtrack Finder, Soundtracks

Blip.Fm: A Twitter-Like Music Service

Blip.Fm is a place where you can get music delivered to you Twitter style. The service looks like twitter, acts like twitter but plays music instead of getting by-the-minute life updates from your friends.

In Blip.Fm, you can be your own DJ and broadcast the music that you enjoy through the service. You can get followers (listeners) and follow other users just like in Twitter. Users are also allowed to vote on your shared music. You can share music by using their song search tool. You can also find DJ’s with similar interests as yours by listing the songs and artists that you listen to. Adding songs to your playlist from other DJ’s blips is as easy as clicking the star button on the blip that you like.

Blip.Fm is a great place to share the songs that you love and discover new songs from other members. Check it out and blip a few songs.

Tags: blip.fm, Music, songs, twitter

StumbleAudio: Stumbleupon for Music

StumbleAudio is the Stumbleupon for music lovers with over 2 million available tracks for you to stumble. Judging from the name of the site, the idea was generally taken from Stumbleupon. StumbleAudio is like the “I’m feeling lucky” of music search sites.

StumbleAudio does not function like Stumbleupon in every way. You do not need to install a browser plugin in order to use the service. You can do your music stumbling in the StumbleAudio page. This is managed by flash, since stumbling music is so much different from stumbling webpages and websites. It only takes up a small space and a little flash. You have to register for an account though in order to rate tracks and save them in your profile.

You can choose a genre that you wish to stumble. Once you start stumbling, a random music will automatically play along with some information like album cover, artist and of course the title of the song. You can also browse and play the songs in the stumbled album and rate the track according to your liking. A thumbs up and thumbs down button (Like in StumbleUpon) is used for rating tracks. There is also a quick share button which will automatically copy the track URL to your clipboard.

This is another great site for discovering music semi-randomly. A search bar is provided if you like to filter your stumbles by the keyword(s) you enter. The service also allows you to make quick purchase of the playing track from iTunes, Amazon, PayPlay and CD Baby. Check it out and start audio-stumbling.

P.S. And, yes, artists do get paid when their songs are played on StumbleAudio.

Tags: Music, music discovery, recommendation, songs, stumbleaudio, stumbleupon, tracks

MixTurtle: Music Search Engine that doesn’t Crawl

MixTurtle is a very simple music search engine that does its job well. It searches playable music in the internet which you can play right from the MixTurtle page. The service is pretty quick considering that its mascot is a turtle.

The design is very basic as well as the playable search result. It only displays the song title and the artist. There is no play button. If you want to play a song, just click the search result you want to play and the music will start right away. If you are listening to a song/music, you’ll have to control the volume from your speakers or desktop. You won’t find any album cover or extra information about the songs. I think this is why MixTurtle loads so fast. It actually disabled a lot of flash features in order to give way to what is most important in a search engine which is getting fast and relevant results. It also downloads the music from several sources for faster streaming.

There is no registration needed in order to listen to music from MixTurtle. You only need to do this if you want to create a MixTurtle playlist which is very easy to accomplish. From your search result just click the + sign to add the song to your playlist, save it and you can listen to it again whenever you wish.

I don’t quite know yet how many music files are indexed by MixTurtle. I didn’t get the chance to test fully but it did get results from the songs that I searched. You can try it out for yourself to fully test the service and let us know what you think.

Tags: mixturtle, Music, music search engine, songs

Discover and Listen to Music According to your Mood

Musicovery is a cool web radio app that lets you discover and listen to music according to your mood settings. You can choose from Energetic, Calm, Dark and Positive moods or set the mood somewhere in between to display a more balanced mood selection. The service also allows you to balance your selection according to tempo and dance level. You can also toggle the genre checkbox to narrow down the displayed selection according to your favorite genre(s) and select a decade to filter the songs that are released in a specific time period.

Whenever you make a change in the control panel, Musicovery will display a different set of songs which fits your settings. The songs are displayed in a mindmap interface and are color coded according to genre. There is no registration required in order to listen to music, however, signing up in their free service will allow you to rate a song and add them to your favorites list in your account and ban a song from ever showing up again in your selections. The free service only allows you to listen to LoFi (Low Fidelity) songs and you have to cash out four dollars a month in order to listen to songs in HiFi (High Fidelity). A link to Amazon, Itunes and Ebay is also provided on the side of each playing music control panel just in case you want to buy the album of the playing track.

Musicovery is a cool and unique place to discover music online. The service does not offer a quick song or artist search. You have to go to sites like SeeqPod for that. So, if you are up listening to music in a different way check out Musicovery and let the music hit your mood.

Tags: discover, Free, Music, musicovery, online, radio, songs