Does anyone remember SongTapper? It was the same idea, except you'd tap your spacebar instead of humming the song.
Song stuck in your head? Just hum to search (2020)
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Re: Song stuck in your head? Just hum to search (2020)
#42I gotta say, as dumb as this sounds, there is almost nothing more satisfying than having an unidentified song stuck in your head and then after hours/days/years figuring out what it is. Vivid memory from when I was in middle school (before internet search was common) having a song tune stuck in my head for years that I couldn’t identify. Finally years later I heard it on the radio randomly and it was like scratching…
You’re gonna love this: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/o2h8bx
A shame that Reply All is no more but it had a great run while it lasted.
Re: Song stuck in your head? Just hum to search (2020)
#43Does anyone remember SongTapper? It was the same idea, except you'd tap your spacebar instead of humming the song.
Yeah! Worked surprisingly well.
Re: Song stuck in your head? Just hum to search (2020)
#44Just tried on my pixel device. Can't say it worked. You hit the assistant thing, say what song is this, then hum as it prompts you. Then stop humming, but it never seems to finish the query. You tap the flat sound wave thing, and it takes that as a cancellation. Shrug.
This has always been my experience too, never had it work
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#45I hummed an obscure Zulu song we used to sing as kids and it found a recording of the song on YouTube. Pretty amazing.
Re: Song stuck in your head? Just hum to search (2020)
#46I gotta say, as dumb as this sounds, there is almost nothing more satisfying than having an unidentified song stuck in your head and then after hours/days/years figuring out what it is. Vivid memory from when I was in middle school (before internet search was common) having a song tune stuck in my head for years that I couldn’t identify. Finally years later I heard it on the radio randomly and it was like scratching…
I think what's more weird is that none of their other music sounds anything like that song. It's rather unique. And the lyrics seems to make no sense anyways. Everything about that song is an enigma to me.
Re: Song stuck in your head? Just hum to search (2020)
#47How well does this do against Shazam?
This is way way better than Shazam. I just tried it. I hummed a song to Shazam and nothing but Google found it in one shot.
Re: Song stuck in your head? Just hum to search (2020)
#48I gotta say, as dumb as this sounds, there is almost nothing more satisfying than having an unidentified song stuck in your head and then after hours/days/years figuring out what it is. Vivid memory from when I was in middle school (before internet search was common) having a song tune stuck in my head for years that I couldn’t identify. Finally years later I heard it on the radio randomly and it was like scratching…
You’re gonna love this: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/o2h8bx
There's a jingle completely missing from the Internet or any record I can find. It's the "Sport Chalet" jingle common on Southern California radios in the late 80's and early 90's. It goes "Sport Chalet!" in this heroic way, then "we take you to the limit!". It's very distinctive, and I've found people singing it on YouTube, but no recording of the original. It probably exists on someone's random cassette tape of radio from those days, and nowhere else. Remarkable!
Re: Song stuck in your head? Just hum to search (2020)
#49I gotta say, as dumb as this sounds, there is almost nothing more satisfying than having an unidentified song stuck in your head and then after hours/days/years figuring out what it is. Vivid memory from when I was in middle school (before internet search was common) having a song tune stuck in my head for years that I couldn’t identify. Finally years later I heard it on the radio randomly and it was like scratching…
> ... there is almost nothing more satisfying than having an unidentified song stuck in your head and then after hours/days/years figuring out what it is
I had a song in my head and I'd whistle it at parties / dinners etc. for years before someone was able to tell me what it was.
The person couldn't tell me the name but told me something like: "It's a very old folkloric song but I don't know it's name". And with that description and, well, the nascent Youtube I've been able to find its name (not even sure that was even Google back then).
But what's funny: everybody knew it when I'd whistle it. Everybody had heard it, but nobody could tell me what it was.
Turns out it was "Greensleeves" which is really famous. Wikipedia link which has a link to the tune:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greensleeves
Besides that anecdote last one I had in my head and couldn't tell, but which I found after a few hours, was this one:
When I've got one and can't tell, I record me whistling it and sent it to friends/family and asks who knows what it is.
Re: Song stuck in your head? Just hum to search (2020)
#50I gotta say, as dumb as this sounds, there is almost nothing more satisfying than having an unidentified song stuck in your head and then after hours/days/years figuring out what it is. Vivid memory from when I was in middle school (before internet search was common) having a song tune stuck in my head for years that I couldn’t identify. Finally years later I heard it on the radio randomly and it was like scratching…
You’re gonna love this: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/o2h8bx
That... is almost a Rick and Morty episode. Like one of those alien sidekick parasites took the form of a song instead.