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Re: Hum to Search Song

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Post by jodrellblank »

WoodenChair wrote: post #121

SoundHound came out with this feature in their iPhone app in 2008. It worked well in my experience. It’s amazing how quick we are to go ooo ahhh when big tech replicates what is already common place in little tech or academia.

Recently getting on a tirade about how utterly pointless the comment "Linux had this first!" "Android had this first!" "Lisp had this first!" is. It's just as bad when it's "iPhone had this first!".

So what?

> It’s amazing how quick we are to go ooo ahhh when big tech replicates what is already common place in little tech or academia.

Translation: "You're dumb for liking this thing I had years ago". What an empty comment.

I don't have an Android and never heard of SoundHound, and I'm quick to go "ooo ahhh" because last weekend my mom was humming a song she didn't know the name or words of, and next time I talk to her I can tell her to try song humming on OK Google, and her phone now does this by default, and if it works I'm predicting she will tell some of her friends or sisters as well.

perhaps I should make sure to remind her that she shouldn't be impressed if it works, because a thing she would never have paid that much for, didn't care about and never owned, could do it years ago, would that help?

Re: Hum to Search Song

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Post by [deleted] »

unityByFreedom wrote: post #56

Two things I wish this had, 1) A "I'm finished humming" button 2) A way to tell Google what song I just hummed when it guessed wrong It failed for me on "Sofia" and "Peter and the Wolf" -- maybe this only works for recently popular songs?

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Re: Hum to Search Song

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Post by miguelr2201 »

mac01021 wrote: post #63

Perhaps unsurprisingly, they answer more accurately and with higher confidence if you actually sing the lyrics rather than just humming.

I 've experienced the same. I've managed to get specific versions of songs (like "I want you to want me" from Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist series rather than the original one from Cheap Trick) and am very impressed with the tool.

Re: Hum to Search Song

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Post by Kaze404 »

I just tried this with "Heard a Song" by Kero Kero Bonito, in which the singer tries desperately to find the name of a song they heard on the radio. It didn't work :(

Re: Hum to Search Song

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Post by Townley »

surround wrote: post #26

I dowloaded the Google app, said “what’s this song,” and it just searched Google for the words “what’s this song” instead of listening for humming. Am I doing something wrong? Edit: After tapping the microphone icon, I have to tap the “search a song” button instead of saying “what’s this song”

What version do you have installed? The latest version for me is 129.0 which came out 4 days ago, and I don’t see a button after tapping the mic

Re: Hum to Search Song

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Post by Santosh83 »

What can you do if you have an mp3 of instrumental music whose origin you would like to find but obviously you can't hum it. Any service that takes an audio file and attempts to find the music title/soundtrack?

Re: Hum to Search Song

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Post by sircastor »

harpratap wrote: post #133
WoodenChair wrote: post #121

SoundHound came out with this feature in their iPhone app in 2008. It worked well in my experience. It’s amazing how quick we are to go ooo ahhh when big tech replicates what is already common place in little tech or academia.

I think you are underestimating how popular Soundhound was (or overestimating how popular Google's version is). I bought my first smartphone just because I was blown away by Soundhound app. I was going to upgrade a year later but apps like SoundHound sealed the deal for me

My wife and I had a real wow moment with Shazam after we’d taken a trip to Germany and she’d heard some music played on a carousel at a park. She had a video of the carousel running and we played it to Shazam. In about 20 Seconds we were listen to a very similar recording of “Sie will nicht blumen und nicht schokolade” (She doesn’t want flowers or chocolate). It was a really awesome moment of technology working for us.

Song: https://youtu.be/eHwCraFXx90

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