Music search searches AskMe

July 15, 2006 7:31 PM

Would it be possible to have the search bar in Music actually search Music.? It seems to query for Ask., at the moment. I'm looking for a printer song, and am so, so lazy.
posted by duende to Bugs at 7:31 PM (9 comments total)

Bonus points if anyone knows what song I'm talking about. A song composed entirely of printer noises, perhaps?
posted by duende at 7:32 PM on July 15, 2006

Well, there was a great song with typewriter sounds, but that may not be what you're looking for.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 7:35 PM on July 15, 2006

you could just use the yahoo site search, which is what that search bar is supposed to go to.
posted by bob sarabia at 7:38 PM on July 15, 2006

This is the problem I'd like to solve. I usually just download all the mefi music and listen to it while I work via iTunes. Sometimes I'll come across a song I really like and I'll want to add it to a playlist. I have to either 1) find the song on whatever page it's on (not always super tough since I usually don't get too far behind, but bad if I'm listening to a song from several days ago) or 2) search, somehow. Songs that have been listed on playlists seem to have a better chance of having gotten picked up by Yahoo or Google search but often it seems their indexes don't update that quickly. You can do a search by making sure you use site:music.metafilter.com but Google doesn't seem to have much there yet. Yahoo has more but their results are perplexing.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 7:53 PM on July 15, 2006

Are you looking for Symphony for Dot Matrix printers, by The User.
posted by generichuman at 9:45 PM on July 15, 2006

Opps, I mean: ?
posted by generichuman at 9:45 PM on July 15, 2006

Are you thinking of this Scanjet music video? It was linked to in a thread in the blue, I think.
posted by painquale at 12:40 PM on July 16, 2006

The User is a genius! I have long loved 'Symphony for Dot Matrix Printers!'
posted by TwoWordReview at 4:38 PM on July 16, 2006

Yeah, that's pretty neat. Thanks.
posted by duende at 5:05 PM on July 16, 2006