Check it out before it gets blown off the interwebs: Fizy is probably the simplest, most powerful and fastest music search engine I’ve ever seen, and that’s saying a lot. Seemingly designed for mobile browsers rather than traditional web browsers, it lets you dig up virtually any song you’re thinking of and stream it in a heartbeat.
It’ll even display an associated video if it can detect one, and you can easily share songs – which come with dedicated URLs – on a wide variety of social networking services.
That’s about all it does and it does that pretty well; I was even able to find songs from one of my favorite bands, Blackbox Revelation, which is not always the case with these types of new services. Fizy claims it can pull up about 75 billion MP3s thanks to access to over 50 different APIs, and the speed is probably the most amazing thing about it and also the main differentiator compared to the plethora of similar services. Bonus points for setting up the service with an international audience in mind: Fizy supports nearly 30 languages to date.
It’s completely web-based, it’s gorgeously limited in features, slick and superfast.
That makes it as addictive as it is illegal, and that’s why I’ll be missing it when it’s gone. That could take some time, since there’s no address or name mentioned anywhere on the site, although a quick WHOIS lookup points in the direction of Turkish company beril tech.
Update: Fizy was acquired a month ago, by Site A.Ş, a member of Z Group, also the group behind Turkish online advertising agency ReklamZ.
In the meantime, thank you for the music!
Why is this illegal?
http://www.tech...oject-playlist/
Awesome legal commentary, Robin, since that’s how lawsuits work – when someone sues you it means that you’ve broken the law. There’s no such thing as frivolous lawsuits, or ones that are filed solely as a pressure tactic during negotiations.
TC also reported that Project Playlist signed deals with 2 of the 4 litigants. So which is it?
How is Fizy illegal? Either point to some legal analysis or mention that this is your honest opinion as a journalist, rather than a lawyer. Robin, do you remember how journalism works, or is TC just a blog and stuff flies out of your collective asses?
I’m not a lawyer, that’s right, and clearly you’re not either.
Prove to me that Fizy has cleared the worldwide rights to the 75 billion music tracks they give users access to, and I’ll happily admit they’re perfectly legal.
TechCrunch has been threatened with lawsuits.
It must be illegal, right?
it’s not really illegal. Since none of the music is hosted on their servers. However the whole thing is gray area and i doubt the have the resources for a legal battle.
They should open source the code.
They should make their own API. I agree.
It’s called “aiding and abetting” which would make them as guilty as the person committing the illegal download.
What makes this illegal and Songza free to do what they do? It seems to be the same in nature.
Erm, Songza uses Seeqpod, which is getting sued all over. http://www.tech...ng-seeqpod-api/
Suing someone /= guaranteed illegality of the defendant. This would be up for debate I would think, but stating that what fizy is doing is illegal in your post seems like you have already put them through your own legal system.
Are they actually hosting the files? If not it’s not illegal correct?
I never heard about it before, thanks for the info.
I like the instant shortURL creation when you click on a song…
http://fizy.com/yDL@y1rPWuRd
Makes it so much easier to search a song and share it on T……
This is one of the best and easiest music search engines I have ever used – keep up the great work!
Tom
http://www.slicefinder.com
Hmmm, wondering about those 50 APIs – so far it just seems to be a front-end for YouTube (like so many other music services). Tried a couple of queries in fizy and YouTube and don’t see any difference. They could have at least had the decency of showing YouTube embedded player (or at least the chromeless one) if that is the case.
İs there will be playlist on fizy?
Just use Seeqpod if you like playlists
Gosh, that’s super fast search engine. If they can allow embeddable players, then it’ll be even more fascinating .. companies like Cruxle ( http://www.cruxle.com ) who specialize in recommendations should embed such players to stream corresponding music ..
yea i know it. its fast. and they are working on playlist option. they said 1 week left for version 2. good work.
by the way, beril tech is a domain registrar.
not the owners.
ROFL
ReklamZ owns part of them.
Fizy is acquired by the leading Turkish online advertising agency, ReklamZ, in February which represents more than a hundred of web sites in the Turkish market.
As long as we know, they are dealing with Turkish authorities about Turkish music rights in these days. And probably succeed with a license agreement.
We covered the story here.
Here are the answers which i got via e-mail from Fizy support;
- Fizy is legal in TR. And trying to be legal in other countries.
- They are in touch with IFPI for legal rights.
- ReklamZ (Advertising Agency) acquired %40 of Fizy.
- 1 week left for new interface and playlist, embed etc. support.
Wonder why TC didn’t get this info?
TC journalism. FAIL.
nice but… Its buggy in my n95 and their portuguese version is full of errors
Getting sued by labels or getting banned by Youtube. No other way.
You must try search in http://www.ipooq.com is very fast and play results as non-stop videos
the google of music?
http://www.reklamz.com/ just bought this site. Turkish source : http://www.webr...rubuna-katildi/
My friend Flint who is an enthusiastic guy has developed a site called http://money-ma....synthasite.com which has information about sites where you could make money and you could get his advise on them.
Oh TC where are you headed? I have seen pretty crappy sites on TC before but this far most the most ridiculus one.
All this site does is using the Youtube API and fetching video search results. There is nothing else it does, nothing.
Try searching “Robin Wauters” for example :
http://fizy.com...q=Robin+Wauters – check the totally irrelevant results. it is so irrelevant there is not even a nearest match of a singer named Robin in the results. Just a bunch of non related youtube user videos. Oh what about “blackbox revelation”, check this http://www.yout...lation&aq=f . Can you see any difference? It is almost identical.
Uses 50 sites for results – lie, search relevancy – non, added benefit for the user and useful tools – non, any real difference than making a search on youtube – non. 75 billion songs – oh come on this is just the youtube video db we are looking at!
So what is this site doing on TC really? Have the standarts gone this low?
So, you little genius, I have some questions;
http://fizy.com/?q=radiohead
http://www.yout...iohead&aq=f
What is this difference?
http://fizy.com/w1Mny5ytXud
What is this source?
TC says its worth to write something about it, who are you?? An idiot? Do you think they didn’t know that they uses APIs? Do you think they didn’t review the site well? Get da fuck outta here.
Anyway, great review Rubin. Thanks for the info bro.
oh yea einstein, now they have a second source added, then what? where are the other 48? what about the fact that they dont search mp3’s, instead just using the videos to extract sound?
2 API connections, one search box, one PR mail. is this all you need to be on TC? This site is nothing more than killerstartups.com material, which Arrington was criticizing couple of months before for “publishing any site with a PR mail”.
These fizy guys are deliberately lying and probably Robin did not review the site properly. It doesn’t take more than 15 mins to understand this site is not doing what it claims to be doing.
“TC says its worth to write something about it, who are you?? An idiot? Do you think they didn’t know that they uses APIs? Do you think they didn’t review the site well? Get da fuck outta here.”
What a flatterer! suck it up good and maybe it will be your crappy site next time
Hi , really fizy dont play mp3 , fizy only play the videos with the JWplayer, you can test click right-mouse over the player, and you see that is a video player but have not activate the images, but now you click the option swicht fullscreen (click over player and get a menu) and now you see the video. So not search mp3 songs, only videos. They have not a data base.
http://fizy.com/w0K2eUy54to
try this.
Good example for Einstein’s quote;
“Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.”
I had written down about fizy a few weeks ago. Check it out here: http://www.cazc...mple-of_12.html
check http://www.moozikk.com
This site is doing the same thing fizy does and at least these guys are decent enought to declare that they are using Youtube api.
Cool site, ignoring such minor things as the legalities!
It has an automatic spell-checker, too! I misspelled “world” “workd,” and still got the right results!
http://fizy.com/?q=HIS+WORKD
Well, this a automatic feature with the youtube api, is not do it for fizy, is youtube that got the right results
Youtube, Metacafe and other video-music share sites is NOT legal in Turkey.
Fizy should close(-_-) like Youtube and other video-mp3 sites for copyright.
In Turkish law, mp3-video share sites and other copyright things is not legal also if your website have links to any mp3-video from hosted anywhere this is not legal.
So just wait for comedy;
“Bu siteye erisim mahkeme karariyla engellenmistir”
Hi, try http://www.fliis.com is faster than Speedy Gonzalez . Search songs and music videos. And playlists are available.