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Alta Vista Audio Search

If you want a genuinely independent music search tool you need look no further than Alta Vista Audio Search .

It targets the main file formats and on our pages picks up the hidden references to the files that we offer for sale on both the main pages and the sample pages.

Although Alta Vista has fallen from the heights that it used to enjoy as a premier search engine my observations indicate that its spiders are particularly assiduous and a selection of their findings are picked up and presented by Yahoo. Specifically this blog is picked up every day by Alta Vista and from time to time Yahoo picks it up. Yahoo doesn't have the Audio search facility and so they tend not to pick up all the mp3 file references and nor do Google as far as one can tell but it could just be that they work harder on excluding duplicated material. It is Google's failure to regularly pick up the latest from this blog which has been most surprising.

Here is another little tribute to Bob Moog and the guys at Arturia who produced the definitive software emulation - a lofi streaming sample from JS Bach's Grand Fugue - an audio giant.

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