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Re: Hum to Search Song

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Post by tshaddox » Fri, Oct 16, 2020, 1:52 AM UTC

Uhhrrr wrote: post #7

I just tried this with a melody I've had stuck in my head for days - no results. Then I tried "Happy Birthday" and got three results: "Las Mananitas" by Canticos "Iyi Ki Dogdun Melissa", by Eser Ulun "Iyi Ki Dogdun Zarife", by Eser Ulun I'm no Pavarotti, but I can sing on pitch and have played the violin for 40 years. EDIT: Heh, "Iyi Ki Dogdun" is Turkish for Happy Birthday, and the links would have taken me to YouTu…

I hummed it very roughly and got "Las Mañanitas" followed by "Happy Birthday to You."

Re: Hum to Search Song

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Post by griffinmyers » Fri, Oct 16, 2020, 1:54 AM UTC

jeff_redradish wrote: post #62

As a child I remember hearing a beautiful song, sung in Japanese (so not searchable by anglo me), and today I finally found it [1]. Thanks Google! [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbTsG9jrJsU

It's a wonderful tune -- I was an instant fan hearing it in the movie Inherent Vice.

Re: Hum to Search Song

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Post by anongoesprivate » Fri, Oct 16, 2020, 2:01 AM UTC

humming is a hit or miss sometimes, but if i played tunes on short videos of skits from social media apps it brings the matching title, a tough competition for /r/NameThatSong/ and /r/tipofmytongue/ :)

Re: Hum to Search Song

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Post by nawsterfeld » Fri, Oct 16, 2020, 2:10 AM UTC

But I thought of it first :c Literally 2 days ago, even. Welp, scratch that one!

Re: Hum to Search Song

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Post by dddddaviddddd » Fri, Oct 16, 2020, 2:10 AM UTC

Challenge in classical pieces is that various melodies among the polyphony might get caught in my head. I wouldn't expect Google be picking bass lines out of pop songs, so I guess it's fair that I can't search by, e.g. the organ pedal line.

Re: Hum to Search Song

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Post by brlewis » Fri, Oct 16, 2020, 2:13 AM UTC

youeseh wrote: post #11

Uhhrrr wrote: post #7

I just tried this with a melody I've had stuck in my head for days - no results. Then I tried "Happy Birthday" and got three results: "Las Mananitas" by Canticos "Iyi Ki Dogdun Melissa", by Eser Ulun "Iyi Ki Dogdun Zarife", by Eser Ulun I'm no Pavarotti, but I can sing on pitch and have played the violin for 40 years. EDIT: Heh, "Iyi Ki Dogdun" is Turkish for Happy Birthday, and the links would have taken me to YouTu…

Sorry, it's built for people who can't sing. You'll have to find a friend with a chalkboard voice.

That's probably it. I'm not a great singer, and I wanted to see if it could recognize my attempt at a challenging melody. It got "Everybody Wants You" by Billy Squier, first try.

Re: Hum to Search Song

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Post by mrdoob2 » Fri, Oct 16, 2020, 2:18 AM UTC

daviddaviddavid wrote: post #107

I recently had an epic earworm that involved lots of old school manual searching, which I'm kind of proud of. For about two weeks I had this beautiful haunting melody stuck in my head. It would just turn on at certain times in the day and I'd find myself humming it. I have around 3500 CDs, mostly jazz but boatloads of classical stuff too. For days I rifled through bins of CDs (which is something I love doing) looking…

Beautiful!

Re: Hum to Search Song

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Post by harrygeez » Fri, Oct 16, 2020, 2:18 AM UTC

nawsterfeld wrote: post #114

But I thought of it first :c Literally 2 days ago, even. Welp, scratch that one!

SoundHound has been doing this for years :)

Re: Hum to Search Song

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Post by Uhhrrr » Fri, Oct 16, 2020, 2:22 AM UTC

StavrosK wrote: post #38

Uhhrrr wrote: post #7

I just tried this with a melody I've had stuck in my head for days - no results. Then I tried "Happy Birthday" and got three results: "Las Mananitas" by Canticos "Iyi Ki Dogdun Melissa", by Eser Ulun "Iyi Ki Dogdun Zarife", by Eser Ulun I'm no Pavarotti, but I can sing on pitch and have played the violin for 40 years. EDIT: Heh, "Iyi Ki Dogdun" is Turkish for Happy Birthday, and the links would have taken me to YouTu…

What's the melody? Vocaroo it!

https://voca.ro/7Cx7OD3Vqc2

I'm pretty sure it's an instrument line, not vocal.

Re: Hum to Search Song

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Post by HJain13 » Fri, Oct 16, 2020, 2:24 AM UTC

partingshots wrote: post #6

Just tried it out on my throwaway Android. Wow, this actually works really well! As I write this from my iPhone, this might singlehandedly be the reason why I switch to a Pixel instead of another iPhone this fall. I was always disappointed that even after acquiring Shazam, Siri could never seem to correctly guess what song was playing unless I had a perfect recording. Anytime I go to a live concert venue, or even a c…

This is probably cross platform; But what is not cross platform is the "Now Playing" feature of Pixels, that enables ambient songs matching in the background (without the use of internet, you can confirm with airplane mode). It keeps a list of songs that it identifies as well... Also the recorder app, which is the bomb (transcribing without internet, searchable, editing (cuts and joins audio) and creating a video with transcription). Cool stuff