Hum to Search Song

Finally someone did this. I've got a million songs in my head that I'm humming not knowing what songs these are. And I was dreaming of being able to simply hum a melody to something shazam-like and get a result.

Hasn't this existed in Google assistant for a long time? Or does that only match the song itself (playing on the radio/store speaker/...)

Just tried it out on my throwaway Android. Wow, this actually works really well!

As I write this from my iPhone, this might singlehandedly be the reason why I switch to a Pixel instead of another iPhone this fall. I was always disappointed that even after acquiring Shazam, Siri could never seem to correctly guess what song was playing unless I had a perfect recording.

Anytime I go to a live concert venue, or even a club, I never can get a recognizable song from my phone. Live music I could maybe sort of understand, but the club part failing was always weird to me, because besides a little bit of distortion, the song being played is coming directly out of a speaker. It shouldn’t be that hard right?

The long-available one is similar to how siri / shazam / etc work - it only detects the actual song. I forget how the audio fingerprinting works (probably varies by system anyway), but they tend to be pretty picky and very sensitive to small timing or frequency changes on "interesting" audio points. E.g. even quite-true-to-the-original covers often fail to find matches for me.

I'm reminded of the CollegeHumor "If Google was a Guy skit": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cxqca4RQd_M

"song that goes meow meow meow meow meow meow", can't find it at the moment for a timestamp. Wonder how many real queries of that actually happen.