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Re: Hum to Search Song

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Post by kbenson »

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'm not sure how you were doing it, but when I think of "hum", I think of making a noise with my mouth closed. I found opening my mouth and making a tone worked much better.

I'm not sure how many people think of hum the same way. I've noticed lately some words being used slightly differently than I am used to (the one coming to mind right now is "giggle" in a story that in context I would interpret as meaning "chuckle"), and at this point it's happening enough that I'm not sure if there's a shift in perception of these words or if I just always interpreted them more narrowly than they were intended.

Re: Hum to Search Song

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Post by sizzle »

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

How exactly did you hum this so it was detected? How many tries did it take? That is incredible it worked thanks for sharing

Re: Hum to Search Song

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Post by harpratap »

WoodenChair wrote: post #121

SoundHound came out with this feature in their iPhone app in 2008. It worked well in my experience. It’s amazing how quick we are to go ooo ahhh when big tech replicates what is already common place in little tech or academia.

I think you are underestimating how popular Soundhound was (or overestimating how popular Google's version is). I bought my first smartphone just because I was blown away by Soundhound app. I was going to upgrade a year later but apps like SoundHound sealed the deal for me

Re: Hum to Search Song

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Post by lawrenceyan »

sizzle wrote: post #132
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

How exactly did you hum this so it was detected? How many tries did it take? That is incredible it worked thanks for sharing

Why not try testing it for yourself? That way, you'll have a definitive set of results to look at that you can guarantee.

Re: Hum to Search Song

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Post by soperj »

jackbravo wrote: post #85
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

Ha! From the get go I remembered I heard this song in a Studio Ghibli movie, then a google search quickly told that it was on From Up On Puppy Hill :-p. I love the Internet. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Sukiyaki+studio+ghibli&t=brave&ia=...

lol. Poppy Hill.

Re: Hum to Search Song

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Post by the_only_law »

It tried it a few times, both humming and and using other techniques to better create the sound. Had little luck sadly.

First I tried the Mario theme song, it got it, but with very low confidence and had about equal confidence for a Bone Thugs song lol.

Tried it again with a rock song that was at least popular enough to show up on an official Spotify Playlist for its decade and genre. It got that with pretty good accuracy.

Finally I tried some sludge metal and punk tunes. I can't vocalize the sludge sound worth shit so I'm not shocked it didn't come back with anything, but I'm mildly disappointed it didn't find anything for the relatively simple Choking Victim song I vocalized, but I assume song popularity is a big component.

Cool feature though, unfortunately I can't hold a tune for as long as the snippet it wants lol.

Re: Hum to Search Song

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Post by andi999 »

branon wrote: post #18

It got "Stayin' Alive" by the Bee Gees with a 17% match, but couldn't get "Dragonaut" by Sleep. Maybe I'm a bad hummer?

Further up was the advice to open your mouth while intonating thr song.

Re: Hum to Search Song

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Post by IggleSniggle »

btbuildem wrote: post #75
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…

There was some nonsense about "Happy Birthday" being copyrighted.. maybe it's a holdover from that? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Birthday_to_You#Copyrigh...

It was a big deal, but yeah regardless of how it used to be, that copyright has expired
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