Son can you play me a memory
I’m not really sure how it goes
But it’s sad and it’s sweet
And I knew it complete
When I wore a younger man’s clothes”
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)
#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 rad…
Here's a commercial with that jingle at the end.
Re: Song stuck in your head? Just hum to search (2020)
#63I always liked the anecdote that Mel Brooks couldn’t write music, so he hummed all the songs from “The Producers” into a tape recorder and those recordings formed the basis of all the arrangements.
Re: Song stuck in your head? Just hum to search (2020)
#64Just 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.
I just tried it. You have to hum until it says stop. It keeps prompting you to keep going
Re: Song stuck in your head? Just hum to search (2020)
#65I 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 tha…
Hah, I had Greensleeves in my head since I was a kid with a digital watch that could play that song and some others. I had the feeling that I had heard it before that somehow. Many years later I suddenly hear that one somewhere and since then it's properly stuck in my head. Now I use it to get other songs un-stuck. Works wonders :-)
Re: Song stuck in your head? Just hum to search (2020)
#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 rad…
Here's a commercial with that jingle at the end. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M76ABmdbkTI
That was a terrible commercial. But I did enjoy the teacher pulling her glasses down to check out that HOT math at the end.
Re: Song stuck in your head? Just hum to search (2020)
#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not on iOS, at least. Just tap the microphone icon in the search box, and a button "Search a song" appears. I've never understood why it's only part of the mobile apps, though, and not part of web search.
I just downloaded the Google app for iOS and this feature was missing until I force-closed and reopened it. Then it appeared.
I’m his worked for me as well. Otherwise it would just do a Google search for “what’s this song” which was very frustrating. At least the song came up, even though it was in Spanish which I didn’t know whether it was used to train the models/input they use before trying.
Re: Song stuck in your head? Just hum to search (2020)
#68I 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…
That song, which is such a great/weird one-hit wonder, has flummoxed so many people! I worked at a record store in high school in the early 2000s and people would come in all the time humming or attempting to sing various songs. I got freakishly good at identifying even the hardest/weirdest tracks. I used to keep a playlist on my iPod of the weirdest tracks, which sadly has been lost to time.
Over the last 20 years, that skill has ebbed some, but I still get friends sending me their attempts to express the earworm stuck in their ear. I have an 80% success rate and enough OCD to usually track it down unless someone just gets stuff straight wrong.
Re: Song stuck in your head? Just hum to search (2020)
#69Anybody ever played Cranium? Humans cannot name songs their friends are humming. Therefore, a true AI should also not be able to, or perhaps it's the singularity at the first moment they can...
Re: Song stuck in your head? Just hum to search (2020)
#70Way back in the days, someone on IRC mentioned they'd had a song stuck in their head for days and they just couldn't figure out what the song was. I asked them how it went, and he replied something along the lines of
da da daada da da daada, da da daada da da daaadaa
Not sure how many other songs it would work with but that one was kinda easy to be fair.