Youdao Music Search Beta Version is Online

Using the internet to find and listen to songs is nothing new. Have you ever thought about being able to satisfy all your needs for discovering new songs, popular songs, and great songs on one website? And ideally, with just a single click to easily enjoy music?

The Youdao Music Search Beta (http://mp3.yodao.com) has now launched! It continues Youdao's consistent commitment to "faster, more convenient," striving to provide you with a smoother experience for searching and listening to songs. A good experience requires continuous product improvement to meet users' personalized needs. As they say, "the devil is in the details." So, let’s see if the following improvements will spark your interest?:P

1. Youdao Music Search - Online Music Search that lets you "listen first!"

Snippet Preview: Listen once, and you'll know it's what you want!

First and foremost, we would like to introduce Youdao's unique "snippet preview" feature. On the search results page, simply click the little speaker icon next to a song title, and you can instantly play a snippet of that song. Using the "snippet preview" function is like using professional equipment in a CD store to quickly browse through your favorite songs; it's much faster than the common "trial listening" feature. You could say there's no waiting—just press a button, and it starts playing!

What do you think of this new feature? If you're familiar with Youdao Web Search's patented "web preview" feature, don't you feel some connection here? The promise of "one second faster" runs through all of Youdao's products. In Youdao Music Search, we've added a unique "snippet preview" feature, allowing you to "listen once, and you'll know it's what you want!"

2. Youdao Music Box - A Convenient and Easy-to-Use "Online Personal Music Player"

1. Embedded Search: Listen while searching, one-click collection

Sometimes, to find multiple songs and try them out one by one, you have to jump back and forth between the search results page and several trial listening windows. In the Youdao Music Box, we make this operation much easier with the "embedded search" function. You can directly conduct a new search within the music box without interrupting the song you're currently listening to. Additionally, for songs in the search results, you only need to click once to "add to trial listening" or "collect" them into your own list. Please note that if you want to save your collection list, you need to log in to the Youdao Music Box with a 163 Passport account before saving under your name.

2. Intelligent Recommendation: Guess what you like, intuitive understanding

Facing countless songs, we often hope to listen to something fresh but still in line with our usual preferences. Just like when you buy books online, you might find a recommended reading list below. Youdao Music Box uses data mining and other technologies to statistically analyze the general preferences of a large number of users who listen to and collect songs, thereby predicting which songs you may also like based on each song. For example, as shown in the above diagram, when you select "Tong Ang Ge - Ba Gen Liu Zhu" (Tong Ang Ge - Hold the Root), below the song playback bar, it recommends "Paradise - Teng Ge", indicating that many netizens who listened to Tong Ang Ge's song also collected Teng Ge's "Paradise". If you click "View More" on the right side, you can see more intelligently recommended songs. Truly, "joy shared is joy doubled."

The "intelligent recommendation" function in Youdao Music Box may help you save time from repeated searches. Of course, letting machines learn and guess your preferences is a gradual process—the more you listen, the smarter it gets. Currently, it cannot achieve 100% accuracy, but perhaps there are a few songs that will give you a sense of intuitive understanding, ^_^

3. Supports FireFox Firefox Browser: Multi-platform compatibility, smooth and stable

The engineers developing Youdao Music Box often work on the Linux platform and couldn't find a suitable website for online listening, -_-|||……

This is because most websites that support online listening use Windows Media Player modules to play music, making it inconvenient for those using the Linux platform or Firefox Firefox browser. Therefore, when designing Youdao Music Box, we specifically considered the needs of such users and used a Flash player to support cross-platform and browser playback for Linux and Firefox. Now, there's always good music from the music box accompanying us while programming, and I believe this will greatly encourage our efforts to accelerate the development of the next version of Youdao Music Search.

Amidst the hustle and bustle of work and life, we are often moved by a segment of singing or a few lines of lyrics in a song. This is probably the delicate and magical charm of music. The Youdao Music Search Beta introduced today hopes to win your favor through the innovative features and detailed improvements mentioned above. If you have better suggestions, you can tell us via feedback email, official forum, or by clicking the "Help Improve" link near the search box at the bottom of the result page.

Now, take a deep breath, and begin your new musical journey of smooth listening! http://mp3.yodao.com