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Re: Hum to Search Song

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Post by vespakoen »

can16358p wrote: post #166
vespakoen wrote: post #106

I had an idea some years ago to make this app but based around a community of helping others find their song by humming and finding your own songs, i have a 2 year old react-native project with a basic working version [1] I don't have time to finish it but i would love it if somebody would make this [1] https://github.com/vespakoen/ontheweb/tree/master/humminggur...

Just a small follow up: in your repo home I tapped the link for humming guru, but the SSL certificate is for another domain and the browser complains.

Thanks for letting me know, looks like I didn't extend the domain and somebody else bought it ;)

Re: Hum to Search Song

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Post by BlackLotus89 »

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

Tried it with soundhound [0] (was called midomi when I used it as a flash app many years ago) just for giggles and it found a different version of the same song first try as well.

[0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.melodis.mi...

Re: Hum to Search Song

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Post by huffmsa »

Gave it the Imperial March, got "dirty by Cristina Aguilara".

Needs work.

It also thinks the tinny reproduction of "Go to sleep little baby" my kids nightlight plays is "Get ur freak on" by Missy Elliott. Which I can definitely hear, but seeing it on my ambient display at 0300 one morning made.me question my sanity.

Re: Hum to Search Song

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Post by Shinchy »

Had a song stuck in my head for weeks, I knew the Chorus and could hum it but had no idea. It found it though - Minnie Riperton - Les Fleurs. I'm quite impressed, although it did think it was more likely to be Eiffel 65 - Blue, a song no one should ever search for. :/

Re: Hum to Search Song

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Post by londons_explore »

comex wrote: post #14

Only available on mobile, huh? Reminds me of Google Translate on photos/images, which has been available for years on mobile but never on web. I hope this doesn't become a trend.

Googles internal mantra has been "mobile first" for the best part of a decade now...

Re: Hum to Search Song

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Post by londons_explore »

While the backend seems great, the Google assistant UI for this on Android is terrible.

For example, long press the home button, say whats this song, hum a song, it gives 3 suggestions, click a suggestion, click the YouTube link to hear it, click twice back to try another one of the three... And Google assistant has lost all state and no longer shows the 3 results. And if I "swipe up to see your snapshot" it crashes and dumps me back at the launcher...

Did they not even test this? Being able to do back and forward navigation without leaving the user on a random screen is like app design 101, and you can totally write unit tests for it.

Re: Hum to Search Song

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Post by can16358p »

robbomacrae wrote: post #165
can16358p wrote: post #161

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I remember that feature. Out of my, like 20 to 30 tries, it literally worked only once. I told about that feature to my friends too but they said that it wasn't working either. So it was really not working at an acceptable level, or both me and my friends are terrible hummers.

I worked there from 2012 for 5 years. The query by humming was pretty amazing to me which is why I joined. And I'm pretty terrible at humming... Unfortunately though the database wasn't as extensive as the direct music match database. Perhaps you were trying songs that weren't included? Fun anecdote: I witnessed one user sing a song into SH so pitch perfect that (from the results) it had made a direct music match! We…

I'm pretty sure it's been a great experience for a system like that!

Maybe I was humming something not included in the humming database then (I didn't know they were separate), or maybe, I'm just bad at humming :)

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