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
Thanks for introducing me to this!
Hum to Search Song
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#212As 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
Love this song!
Whistle and look up so you can't see these tears..
It managed to be a #1 hit in the US even!
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#213Just 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…
Didn't apple just demo the same thing in their event this week? Might not have to use the google app at all.
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#214Earlier quoted context omitted.
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)
yup and Snoop keeps that same musical reference in his hugely popular cover of that tune.
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#215Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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 b…
When the Model T came out, people weren't impressed by the wheel, they were impressed by the low cost of a well-working automobile. I don't think you understand my analogy.
If another company had come out with a low cost well-working automobile 12 years before Ford, then people should not be as impressed by Ford. That's my point.
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#216Only 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 just tried with a ptbr song and it worked.
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#217Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 b…
When the Model T came out, people weren't impressed by the wheel, they were impressed by the low cost of a well-working automobile. I don't think you understand my analogy. If another company had come out with a low cost well-working automobile 12 years before Ford, then people should not be as impressed by Ford. That's my point.
Why shouldn't they, why is that your point? If an uncharitable read of your comment is that you are mocking people and trying to gain hipster points by knowing about it before it was popular, then maybe a charitable read is that "we are too quick" is a warning of some hazard or danger that happens if we ooh and aahh about things too quickly which (in some way) objectively haven't earned it, by not being first, and that being first is in some way a majorly important criterion. If so, what is it that you are warning about?
What exactly is your problem with people being excited or impressed by something that was done before, which makes it worth a comment?
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#218Earlier quoted context omitted.
When the Model T came out, people weren't impressed by the wheel, they were impressed by the low cost of a well-working automobile. I don't think you understand my analogy. If another company had come out with a low cost well-working automobile 12 years before Ford, then people should not be as impressed by Ford. That's my point.
Why shouldn't they, why is that your point? If an uncharitable read of your comment is that you are mocking people and trying to gain hipster points by knowing about it before it was popular, then maybe a charitable read is that "we are too quick" is a warning of some hazard or danger that happens if we ooh and aahh about things too quickly which (in some way) objectively haven't earned it, by not being first, and th…
> Why shouldn't they, why is that your point? If an uncharitable read of your comment is that you are mocking people and trying to gain hipster points by knowing about it before it was popular, then maybe a charitable read is that "we are too quick" is a warning of some hazard or danger that happens if we ooh and aahh about things too quickly which (in some way) objectively haven't earned it, by not being first, and that being first is in some way a majorly important criterion. If so, what is it that you are warning about?
Again, you are completely misinterpreting my comment. Google is a trillion dollar company. It's not impressive that they recreated something a startup was doing 12 years ago.
> What exactly is your problem with people being excited or impressed by something that was done before, which makes it worth a comment?
For the third time, I'm not saying people shouldn't think the feature is cool. They should just IMHO not be heaping praise on Google for it since it's old tech, and perhaps the scrappy startup that did it first a long time ago deserves more of the credit.
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#219SoundHound 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…
> This isn't just "big tech replicating a commonplace feature", it's big tech implementing it at all where little tech could not.
Well I guess our experiences were quite different then. I was able to get SoundHound to recognize the vast majority of the tunes I hummed for it back in 2008/2009. And I used it a lot. I did only choose popular songs though. It's not surprising IMHO that a company 12 years later with much greater resources could extend recognition to a much larger variety of songs. So I wouldn't call it "little tech could not."
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#220I guess they will use this to take down violations of copyrighted songs on youtube. If you sing/cover or song and some author doesnt like it they may strike it. The "Eagles" are known to be like that about their stuff