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Re: Hum to Search Song

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Post by FartyMcFarter »

hombre_fatal wrote: post #172
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 remember that, and I remember playing a game with my girlfriend at the time where we tried to get it to recognize any song we hummed. We had an in-joke where Smooth Operator was literally the only song we could get it to recognize. This isn't just "big tech replicating a commonplace feature", it's big tech implementing it at all where little tech could not. This is a common fetishization on HN, but HNers forget tha…

I don't know how it was back then, but I used SoundHound recently to hum Bizet's March of the Toreadors and it worked on the first try.

SoundHound is definitely not a tech demo.

Re: Hum to Search Song

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Post by varispeed »

Google is using their power, money and influence to occupy another niche? They should stick to their search engine and ads and the rest of the company should be ordered to be broken up. They are too big and that gives them unfair advantage in the markets. At very least they should be ordered to pay tax in a way that any normal business pays it. It should also be calculated how much money they made using tax arrangements normal company couldn't afford to do and that money should be confiscated.

Re: Hum to Search Song

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Post by rodelrod »

smusamashah wrote: post #17

Only works for English songs. I searched for a Pakistani song as famous as national anthem ("dil dil Pakistan"). It couldn't find it. I was thinking it learns the tune of song and matches with that so language should not matter. It worked for "Desert Rose" though. Edit: Also worked for an Indian song. Also worked for few other recent famous Pakistani songs. I guess the first song that I searched is probably not liste…

I tried the Portuguese anthem three times, with lyrics. I got a Japanese anime song, a French lullaby about a baby bear and "All I want for Christmas".

Re: Hum to Search Song

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Post by feanaro »

rorosaurus wrote: post #163
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.

That was my first thought too. SoundHound worked 90% of the time for me, very impressive for the day IMO. Too bad it was fairly short-lived - I think they removed that functionality within a year or two. It's nice to have the ability to search like this again.

Huh? SoundHound still works, I have it installed on my phone.

Re: Hum to Search Song

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Post by delgaudm »

faitswulff wrote: post #95
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

The English language version I'd always heard was the 4PM cover [0], which I just found out was originally by A Taste of Honey in the 80s [1]. [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueVjrc7YYoE [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqFkUNqBwMw

Funny, I recognized the melody from the Slick Rick song La Di Da Di.

https://youtu.be/zk4Y7SbTQK8?t=164

Warning: potentially NSFW - language (for those still in offices)

Re: Hum to Search Song

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Post by bogwog »

Does anyone remember song tapper?! (I might be misremembering the name)

It was an old web application where you tap the beat of the song you're looking for on your keyboard, and it presents you with a list of close matches. This was way back before smartphones and the AI revolution were a thing!

Re: Hum to Search Song

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Post by jodrellblank »

WoodenChair wrote: post #170
jodrellblank wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Recently getting on a tirade about how utterly pointless the comment "Linux had this first!" "Android had this first!" "Lisp had this first!" is. It's just as bad when it's "iPhone had this first!". So what? > 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. Translation: "You're dumb for liking this thing I had years ago". What an empty com…

> Translation: "You're dumb for liking this thing I had years ago". What an empty comment. That’s just your extremely uncharitable and incorrect insinuation of my comment. What I was saying was not about the user’s reaction to the feature but instead about the admiration of the company. It’s not impressive if Ford uses a wheel on their car because a wheel is old technology that others have already done well.

When you say “we” are too quick to X, but you personally are not Xing, then it is saying “you are too quick to X”.

Is it not impressive that Ford model T became the mass-market car recognisable a hundred years later, because “we’re too quick to ooh and ahh other companies have used wheels before”?

Look at the people in this comments thread saying it made their morning and they found songs from childhood and they’ve been experimenting with foreign songs, and I ask again, what does “I’m not impressed it’s been done before” add? Why do you think that’s a good, useful, comment? so what if it’s been done before?

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