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YouTab: Automatically get chords for music

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Re: YouTab: Automatically get chords for music

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Post by yoodit »

Hello,

I've been hard at work on a project that I would like to share with you. It's called YouTab and its what I believe is a great way to sync lyrics and chords with music. The smart guys I work with use a nifty algorithm to "listen" to the music and in a lot of cases it does a really good job in getting the chords. But since technology has its limits there's an editor application that lets you fix what is wrong.

I am hoping that this will develop into a useful resource for musicians and music lovers and I'd love to hear what you think about it and get ideas as to what you might like to see next.

Thank you for taking the time to read this.

Re: YouTab: Automatically get chords for music

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Post by jameshush »

yoodit wrote: post #2

Hello, I've been hard at work on a project that I would like to share with you. It's called YouTab and its what I believe is a great way to sync lyrics and chords with music. The smart guys I work with use a nifty algorithm to "listen" to the music and in a lot of cases it does a really good job in getting the chords. But since technology has its limits there's an editor application that lets you fix what is wrong. I…

You should send an email to the guys at http://chordify.net/ . One of the people involved in that project has a PHD in computer science with focus on analysing music with code. They'd be great people to team up with for you.

Re: YouTab: Automatically get chords for music

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Post by phpnode »

I couldn't get this to work, after selecting a song it appears to work for ~30 seconds and replies with "This song cannot be analyzed because it is not set as public on YouTube." or "This song cannot be analyzed because it is not set as public on SoundCloud."

Re: YouTab: Automatically get chords for music

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Post by elsigh »

yoodit wrote: post #2

Hello, I've been hard at work on a project that I would like to share with you. It's called YouTab and its what I believe is a great way to sync lyrics and chords with music. The smart guys I work with use a nifty algorithm to "listen" to the music and in a lot of cases it does a really good job in getting the chords. But since technology has its limits there's an editor application that lets you fix what is wrong. I…

Certainly love the concept! And the UI flow and automatic lyrics-to-chords feature appears to have worked on my song just great.

But... it doesn't seem to play, which is kind of a bummer.. Maybe the server is being swamped?

https://www.youtab.me/music/XnWT_wslaBc/lindsey-simon/its-a-...

Re: YouTab: Automatically get chords for music

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Post by jameshart »

Been having a lot of success with Capo [1] recently - excellent beat and chord detection (though it often overcomplicates simple fifths and sus4s assuming they're much more full voiced than they are); also provides a time/frequency intensity view that you can use to pick out melody lines which it automatically translates into tab.

[1] http://supermegaultragroovy.com/products/capo/

Re: YouTab: Automatically get chords for music

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Post by tech-no-logical » 

   sorry this video has been removed from youtube
   sorry this video has been removed from youtube
   sorry this video has been removed from youtube
   sorry this video has been removed from youtube
ad nauseum. nice project, but doomed to fail because of this.

why the downvotes ? even their TOS sort of acknowledges it will not work :

YouTab respects your copyrights and the copyrights of others and therefore requires that you only annotate tablature of your own music or of music that you are licensed to annotate (such as public domain music).

Re: YouTab: Automatically get chords for music

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Post by Jemaclus »

This is really nice. There are a number of songs whose chords I can't find, and this one came up with (at the very least) a starting point for figuring it out. I like how it tracks the beat and shows the waveform, and I especially like having the video play in the bottom right so I can watch as I play.

Very cool. The only nitpick is a copy tweak. Throughout the app the app refers to itself as "us" or "our" ("Working our magic") and then almost immediately after as "me" ("It takes me about 30 seconds.") You should consider unifying the pronouns so that either you're always using first person, or you're always using the royal "we".

Otherwise, this is pretty rad. I can see myself using this to practice some new songs that come out.

Re: YouTab: Automatically get chords for music

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Post by yoodit »

elsigh wrote: post #5
yoodit wrote: post #2

Hello, I've been hard at work on a project that I would like to share with you. It's called YouTab and its what I believe is a great way to sync lyrics and chords with music. The smart guys I work with use a nifty algorithm to "listen" to the music and in a lot of cases it does a really good job in getting the chords. But since technology has its limits there's an editor application that lets you fix what is wrong. I…

Certainly love the concept! And the UI flow and automatic lyrics-to-chords feature appears to have worked on my song just great. But... it doesn't seem to play, which is kind of a bummer.. Maybe the server is being swamped? https://www.youtab.me/music/XnWT_wslaBc/lindsey-simon/its-a-...

Hey there, the links works for me. Loaded very quickly, the server is doing fine. Could be a glitch, try again please?
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