Is There A Service To Identify Chinese Songs?

I recollect any modern student of Chinese should exist using Baidu'south MP3 search. With it, it's possible to find a huge variety of MP3s on the internet, and information technology's totally free! (Yes, the world's loss regarding intellectual property rights in People's republic of china can exist your proceeds!) I tin imagine, though, that for a first student of Chinese, an all-Chinese interface tin exist daunting. It is my aim to brand it more than accessible to the beginner.

Notation: to employ Baidu, your calculator must support Chinese fonts. Baidu uses GB2312 encoding, which should be automatically detected past your browser, but the Chinese characters volition only be readable if your computer supports them.

OK, let'due south suppose yous're a total beginner. You've heard of this hot boy band called F4, and you figure it'south as good a place as whatever (plus you don't have to actually use whatsoever Chinese to search for it!).

Get to Baidu.com.
Click on MP3 (or y'all could have gone to mp3.baidu.com directly).
Enter your search term in the box (in this case it'south "F4" without the quotes).
Choose your format. I simply want MP3s, so I select the "MP3" radio button. (The choices, left to right, are: 歌词 (lyrics), 全部音乐 (all music files), mp3, rm (RealPlayer format), wma (Windows Media Role player format), wink, 其它 (others), 铃声 (cell phone ringtones).)
Click on the button next to the search box, " 百度搜索 " (Baidu search). (For the future, when y'all do searches from the search results page, make sure yous click on the left button. The correct button will be "歌词搜索" (lyrics search).)
You will see a tabular array of your search results. Below you will notice a guide to interpreting this table:
1. 歌曲名 : Vocal Championship (this name is linked to the MP3s you download)
2. 试听 : Listen First (uses Windows Media Role player in a popup window)
3. 歌词 : Lyrics (very useful, especially for popular music, although not 100% reliable)
4. 铃声 : Cell Phone Ringtone
5. 大小 : Filesize (in megabytes)
6. 格式 : Format (MP3, WMA, etc.)
7. 下载速度 : Download Speed (especially if you're outside of China, this may be important)
~~Right click on a title~~ (choose from the 歌曲名/Vocal Title column) and "Relieve as". In that location'due south a good chance that you'll want to change the filename, every bit they are often completely random or unhelpful.

Update: You now accept to first left-click on the song championship. A pop-up window will appear containing the URL to the MP3. Right-click on that to relieve.

That's information technology! Also try out the lyrics search. Yous tin click on 歌词 (lyrics) for any search upshot that has them. You lot can likewise search for lyrics directly, from the search results folio. Click on the right button, " 歌词搜索 " (lyrics search).)

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