I love useful tools like this. Songreference has a free download for iTunes (Windows only for now) and Winamp called MiniTube that searches for the music video of whatever MP3 you are playing at the time and then plays it synced to the song. That syncing part isn’t trivial, and it makes all the difference. The plugin also has links to Wikipedia information on each song.
See a demo video here.
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Not impressed with the video automatically playing in my RSS reader.
Doesn’t seem to actually sync your mp3 and the video, simply gives the option of having the audio come from the video (synced w/ video) or audio coming from your music player (probably not synced).
I wonder how tough it is to sync music player audio to video audio… seems to be lots of moving parts with your connection speed and everything.
This is an absolutely amazing plugin. Simple, yet very powerful.
I’ve been looking for something very similar to this for a long time now and it’s much better than what I had in mind.
This looks kind of cool.
Don’t know if I would use it though.
Wonderful for those MP3 obsessed people. Not that it’s a bad thing.
This looks very interesting. As a teacher, recognizing the value of playing music to teach specific points, I think that this could only be beneficial.
It doesn’t work very well. The videos it kept choosing were videos created by youtube users using the song, not the original music video.
not impressed either
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I don’t understand. If I have a list of songs in my iTunes, I would be listening to them, not watching videos of them. On the other hand, if I want to watch videos of those songs, I would rather goto youtube.com and directly watch them or use some video bookmarking tools to save them. I fail to understand why I would use this tool with my iTunes. ilike (ilike.com) made an interesting tool for iTunes to create a social network based on songs. And Cruxle (www.cruxle.com) made an interesting website that’ll recommend more songs based on your taste for movies, tvshows, books or other music. If I want to find recommendations I would goto these websites, but couldn’t really understand how songreference is going to help me.
TuneWiki, which syncs lyrics to songs, was the first thing that came to my mind when I read this.
Not the original music videos. thumbs down.
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Hello Michael,
This is san the creator/developer of songreference. First of all thank you for writing about it, your kind review and comments. You cannot believe how happy i’m seeing this on your website!
Also am very happy to see the comments. This is the first version but I have received a lot of suggestions which I plan to include in my next version. Many thanks to everybody for your comments.
Reading about it here just made my day!!
Kind Regards,
Sanchit.
Too bad no Mac support just yet…seems like a pretty cool plugin. We may do a review of it soon.
This is Great Tool…
Actually I Was Waiting For Something Like This…
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Your blog is 100% inaccurate. All this does is find a video. There is no ’syncing’ and that basically makes it useless, since the video is basically never in sync unless you listen to the crappy compressed YouTube sound.
A utility that COULD do this properly would be amazing, mind.
I cannot get it to download! It’s only giving me a graphic.
Ehm, is that really well synchronized?
Michael, you really should try to use an application before touting features that you say ‘make all the difference’ and yet don’t really work. If there was anyway for the developer to make all the videos start about 2-4 seconds in, it would be much easier as that is usually about the amount of time it takes for the application to find the video on Youtube and start the video playing. As for all the people complaining that it returns videos made by users as well as official videos, why don’t you go make your own plugin? It’s free!
Are these music playlists able to be embedded on websites and blogs for our friends to play too from our music favorites list?
How much does this cost?
@Shawn: It’s Free
.. and works quite good if you have like a 1 Mbps connection atleast.
Also Auto tagging MP3s in Winamp improved result for me.
this one is great!. love it!
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