Talk:Singingfish
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[edit] Singingfish.com no longer exists?
Found this: http://aolsearch.aol.com/aol/webhome Look familiar?141.151.175.91 23:26, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
It seems that Singingfish.com has been completely replaced by AOL video. Why? Did they decide to close it down or something? --209.147.90.202 20:51, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
Hm... I don't know why. Perhaps legal issues or something? -- ThreeDee912 21:48, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
This freaking sucks, they don't care about users.. they care about their own ass, and all the coporate entities that pressure good services to close, so they can maintain a proper monolopy. AOL hit *yet* another all time low. 75.26.38.82 01:33, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
"Launched in 2000, it is one of the earliest and longest lived search engines dedicated to multimedia content." should note that in Feb 07, 2007 singing fish was finanally butt-raped by AOL, and big profit-corporation goons.
Is there anything that we can be done to bring SingingFish back? That was the easiest way to share artists with other people. It never even seemed like a copywright issue. Call AOL itself to complain, I don't know if it'd do any good though. (703) 265-1000 is AOLs # according to the Yahoo yellow pages. Corey 08:51, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
Singingfish itself wasn't illegal, but it did link to lots of free.fr users that had uploaded whole albums. Ah well, the monopolising-of-inncoent-websites continues. 88.111.105.154 10:03, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
Excuse me while I spaz out from just finding out that SingingFish is dead. DANGIT. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.13.180.28 (talk) 12:47, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
You can't download mp3s from it any more. I advocate any act of rape or violence against AOL's CEO. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.66.205.157 (talk) 12:56, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
I'm a bit curious as to what happened as well. I can't seem to find any statements on the net though, but one definately belongs here. Mooseofshadows 01:32, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
- This is all I see on the subject. Preppy 02:48, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
- added to to the article PatThemUp 00:48, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
This sucks! I cant even use archive.org to go back to it when it was good, they were ran by AOL... http://slyck.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=30354 RealG187 17:59, 9 February 2007 (UTC) Well there's always P2P...
what's sad is that hardly anyone knows what singingfish is/was, and it will just disapear without much discussion from others, i as far as i'm concerned singingfish was the only song search engine that didn't suck donkey balls. btw say goodbye to shoutcast within a few weeks maybe that'll spark more debate. PatThemUp 00:35, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
So is it much different to use http://aolsearch.aol.com/aol/webhome? It's essentially the same, although some options are clearly missing. It's just AOL buying and cloning. 141.151.175.91 16:20, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
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- No it's not essentially the same, not even close, it's basically a spam service, that links to pages that more than likely are just an ad redirect.. as singingfish linked directly to the file, no smoke and mirrors with singingfish.. i will give aol audio credit, i found some files and because google,yahoo,msn audio search are especially useless. and i think their should be alternative links to singingfish listed on the article. 75.15.250.27 03:23, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
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- Perhaps I'm missing something? If you clicked on the link, you should be able to click "audio." From your search you should get most of the same results as Singingfish used to give, and after clicking you have an audio file and a URL to the file in the address bar. No "smoke and mirrors." No ad redirects. Either I'm more clueless than I thought, or you didn't understand me. Try clicking the link and trying again. 141.151.175.91 18:38, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
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Well for one thing, you get a whole lot less results... Wushugene 19:39, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
Hmm...I haven't had that problem yet, seeing as I get just about the same results, but I believe you. Without the Singingfish staff, my guess is it will continue to decline. 141.151.175.91 23:22, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
I just discovered this site last month and now all of a sudden it's gone. This is crazy. 128.180.211.181 02:48, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
Reminds me of Netscape. AOL purchased, didn't do much with it, then just deleted it!-- ThreeDee912 23:16, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
Didn't see it coming. Checked my cache, but alas all traces of the old site were flushed. I'm going to miss this friendly fish.
I loved the years of finding random songs on Singingfish for my Xanga. A semi-good alternative for Singingfish is http://www.mp3int.com . Still not the same, but hey whatcha gonna do? RIP 137.141.242.218 04:57, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
- I too was a singingfish junkie. There are 10 different alternatives listed at http://liquidparallax.com/2007/04/12/ten-best-places-to-search-free-music/ -- 68.110.5.138 12:42, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
(Dreamantasmo 22:20, 13 February 2007 (UTC)):I miss it very much, even though I've not used it more than every week or so. Always wondered how long it would take before it's taken down. It appeared to be sometimes possible to download music from sites where the owners may not even have been aware that their music folders were open to the web - call it involuntary philantrophy. It's a shame, that singingfish is gone. And reading more of how much people liked it, it makes me even more mad that it was taken down and gobbled up by AOL, which to me is the kingdom of the differently abled PC users (note the PC). Here is my "prayer" at the grave of singingfish.com:
May there be the day that all pirates, downloaders, media thieves, in other words, all of us 75 percent of the population of the internet (mostly though not AOL members) stand up and make it the law what is already the practice: Music shall be free as the air we breathe. May there be the day that all firewalls are wide open for access to the universal MusikTorrent that contains all that was ever sung into a microphone!
This day will come, and no coding tricks and no court rules, no tricky congress law designs, and no internet police will stop it in the long run. Why would anyone have to pay again for a song that's been played on the radio a hundred times, sold on vinyl, then on cassette, then on CD and finally by online streaming? For so many, the internet is part of the office and of the work place, the place were millions do their daily work, be it as software plumbers, web-based commerce jockeys, data base administrators, form-letter designers, online blog-software fixers, windoze tech-support geeks, students, gamblers, edicts, or simply for fun, which is rare. We all put together, and contributed in one form or the other, to this monstrous beast of interlinked computers that reorganizes nearly anything, provides shortcuts to nearly any trade, accelerates technological overturn, and speeds up economy in general. It's taken over much of life for many. So: Why should this thing not play music on demand for free? Why? (Dreamantasmo 22:20, 13 February 2007 (UTC))
They want to make as much of a profit as they can (greedy little.....). Windows Live Search Engine sucks compared to Singing Fish. I searched for "Jupiter Symphony" and got: Jupiter Town, Jupiter Furniture, Jupiter Planet and 4,076 other results. I never did get to listen to my Mozart. Thank god that I grabbed most of the free crap off of WMP and saved it so I can listen to it. You can't find quality music since SF went down. AOL on the otherhand just plain sucks at their support deals. -IHouse 65.255.130.104 01:50, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] It's back online?!
I happend to stumble on the page and it too my amazement i didn't get redirected, can anyone else confirm? [1] —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 75.15.250.27 (talk) 03:27, 14 February 2007 (UTC).
Happy f***ing valentines day! They redirected that link too... This sucks...it was the one place you could get free music from in school/work and it made getting one song easy...now you have to search all over the place to find one damn song or download the whole RAR/ZIP album.
yup.. well we have all the more reason to hate AOL. 75.15.176.201 19:48, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Archive :)
I use a program to archive most of the site before they deleted it. Of course you can't search with the archive, but you can still see how it was. I think it's OK to post a screenshot... Image:SingingfishScreenshot.png
-ThreeDee912 21:44, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
AOL removed much of the functions from the Audio search feature, but look at http://search.aol.co.uk/audio_adv?query=&safe=
Yeah, that's because they're greedy and also don't want free music to be out there (profit, profit, profit). Luckily, we still have a few hackers and pirates that grab that stuff and allow free downloads on other websites of the music. I, on the otherhand, heard that it was going down on the 6th and stayed up all night grabbing as much music off it as I could (screw paying .99C per song). Windows Live Search stinks on it now. I can't find music at all on it (not free, anyway). -IHouse65.255.130.104 01:53, 20 March 2007 (UTC) --
