This seems to have been removed in the most recent Google app. Typical Google.
I just did it on my android phone. It couldn't figure out the song though. It did try.
Song stuck in your head? Just hum to search (2020)
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#82Related tangent: song stuck in your head (maybe you know what it is) and want it to go away? Finish it to the last note.
Re: Song stuck in your head? Just hum to search (2020)
#83For anyone struggling with a song (or a movie, or a TV show, or whatever) that they can't remember, r/tipofmytongue on Reddit is a great resource.
Re: Song stuck in your head? Just hum to search (2020)
#84I wonder if Google is just innovative and not invasive.
Re: Song stuck in your head? Just hum to search (2020)
#85I 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…
Throughout my young adulthood I enjoyed hunting down the games I played as a kid on Windows in the late 90s.
List of childhood DOS games:
- Descent
- Tyrian
- X Wing vs. Tie-Fighter
- Jazz the Jackrabbit
- Super Solvers
- Sim Theme Park
- Let’s Explore the Airport
- The Lie
- Are you Afraid of the Dark
- Lego Creator
- Lego Loco
- CartoonNetwork.com shockwave games
- Lego.com shockwave games
- A slew of shockwave games from now defunct websites that you can find on flashpoint (penack silat, area flat, etc.)
Re: Song stuck in your head? Just hum to search (2020)
#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
You’re gonna love this: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/o2h8bx
What I believe to be the greatest podcast episode of all time.
It’s one of the greats for sure.
Here’s another contender: https://archive.org/details/The.Dollop.Ep15.Ten.Cent.Beer.Ni...
Caution: I have almost crashed a car on more than one occasion from laughing so hard!
Re: Song stuck in your head? Just hum to search (2020)
#87As with most Google Search features, it seems to have been degraded/nerfed over the years (as has competitor Shazam). I'm starting to think it's purposeful and on account of limited compute: devote a lot on launch to convince people of its quality, then gradually lower resources devoted to it. As long as 90% of searches - the ones for the most popular songs - work, the complaints from the subset of the 10% that don't…
The silent downvotes are funny, mere weeks after getting into it with HN commenters about how Google-related posts are astroturfed.
Re: Song stuck in your head? Just hum to search (2020)
#88Holy 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 ba…
People who aren't pitch perfect will rarely sing a song it its original key, so Google likely handle that.
Re: Song stuck in your head? Just hum to search (2020)
#89Songs get stuck in your head because you can’t remember the ending, e.g. I’m a Barbie Gi- To get a song out of your head, design an ending that resolves. The rest is left as an exercise to the reader.
I hated you for making me earworm barbie girl but I gave it a strong orchestral resolution and it went away. Thanks for the tip!
Re: Song stuck in your head? Just hum to search (2020)
#90I've used this probably at least 100 times over the past couple of years, and it's pretty bad. It finds a match maybe only about 20% of the time. Usually I just get a truly bizarre set of random songs from across the globe that say something like "5% match". And none of the stuff I'm looking for is obscure -- they're all top-40 songs from some decade or other that I just can't remember the artist. And the crazy part…
Might be trained on bad hummers.