Lyric search service

At least one non-transitory computer readable storage medium configured to store instructions that, in response to being executed by at least one processor included in a server device, cause the server device to query lyric data related to a plurality of audio files associated with a music repository by carrying out steps that include:

• creating, within a search platform, one or more indices related to the music repository, wherein the one or more indices include at least one index related to lyric data transcribed from the plurality of audio files;
• querying the one or more indices to generate search results based on a query string;
• adjusting an order of the search results to produce an adjusted order;
• and
• transmitting a representation of the search results to a client device, wherein the representation of the search results is generated according to the adjusted order and includes at least one snippet of the lyric data for one or more audio files.

A server device for querying transcription information related to a plurality of multimedia files stored in a content database, the server device comprising:

• at least one processor;
• and
• at least one memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the server device to:
• receive a search request that includes a query string from a client device;
• generate a query for one or more indices of a search platform based on the query string;
• receive a list of search results from the search platform, wherein the list of search results includes, for each search result in the list of search results, a document identifier for a transcription document stored in the search platform and a corresponding heuristic value calculated based, at least in part, on a comparison of the query string with values from one or more fields of the transcription document specified by the document identifier;
• modify an order of the search results in the list of search results based on at least one on a popularity score for the multimedia files or a weight associated with each field in the one or more fields of the transcription document;
• and
• transmit a response to the search request to the client device, wherein the response includes a representation of a portion of the transcription information for at least one multimedia file, the representation being generated based on the modified order of the search results.