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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)

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Anybody 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...

Humming sounds much better to the hummer than the listener.

Re: Song stuck in your head? Just hum to search (2020)

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I had to uninstall/reinstall on iOS, but then the song search became visible. It helped me track down this ballad our school jazz band played back in high school. I searched fruitlessly every few years or so through playlists of ballads, and one time six or so years ago I recorded me playing it on Alto Sax and posted it to Reddit, but no luck for nearly two decades, til now, so thanks!

Here’s the song for the curious: https://youtu.be/wcAkEl6AV5Y?si=CI93V_Kp_ve_lGWG

Re: Song stuck in your head? Just hum to search (2020)

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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…

Not music, but in the late 90s or maybe early 2000s there was an anti-smoking PSA involving an old man encouraging a baby to take its first steps. After much encouragement, the baby starts walking, walks over to the old man, and passes right through him as he fades into partial transparency.

The message then rolls that you shouldn't smoke because your early death will deprive you of important moments like this one.

This PSA made far more of an impression than most do -- for example, it's mentioned on Friends -- and I think about it often as an example of how the same basic argument can be made in weak or strong terms. It may have been too strong for its own good; I once asked a friend for help finding a video of it and the response was "Oh, I know exactly the commercial you're talking about. I won't help you look for it; I hate that commercial and I don't want to see it again."

I never was able to find it.

Re: Song stuck in your head? Just hum to search (2020)

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Holy crap! "Brahms - Piano trio No 1 in B major" FINALLY. That's been more than half a year in my head, and me failing to figure out how to search for it.

Proud of myself I nailed the key. Does this song have some romance story behind it? Probably just my brain confusing nearby neurons.

Extraordinarily frustrating that it needs a mobile device (as opposed to, say, even Chrome only).

Still, thanks internet. Now I'm back to a 100% success ratio (lifetime) of "if I get a song stuck in my head I will dig until I know its name".

Re: Song stuck in your head? Just hum to search (2020)

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Just 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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Re: Song stuck in your head? Just hum to search (2020)

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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

Wow! The last time I looked was more than 2 years ago, so this video was uploaded since then. Thanks for posting. I don't recall the vocal being a choral group, but rather a very masculine solo voice, but it's definitely the same jingle.

Re: Song stuck in your head? Just hum to search (2020)

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here's a commercial with that jingle at the end. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M76ABmdbkTI

Wow! The last time I looked was more than 2 years ago, so this video was uploaded since then. Thanks for posting. I don't recall the vocal being a choral group, but rather a very masculine solo voice, but it's definitely the same jingle.

I remember it the same way you do. Maybe they had multiple versions of it?

Re: Song stuck in your head? Just hum to search (2020)

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Just 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

I've had this same issue with SoundHound, as they've advertised this same feature for a while now. The problem is, sometimes I only have half of the chorus stuck in my head and I want to hear the rest but I don't remember it.

I just tried it with a guitar driven song I've had stuck in my head lately. I only remember about 5 seconds of the chorus, but it's what I would consider a fairly memorable and catchy hook.

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