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- t0mmmmmmm, on 10/12/2007, -6/+103what if one hums a nickelback song? does the software get confused?
- shadus, on 10/12/2007, -7/+53You know as cool as that might be, it requires internet explorer and it's activex... which is the most insecure utter piece of crap software ever designed. No thanks.
- palmer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+32This is an ASCAP trick to find you and sue you for unauthorized performance of a song.
- sockpuppets, on 10/12/2007, -4/+34You shouldn't get hummers from your sister.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+25"what if one hums a nickelback song? does the software get confused?"
hahahaha, I was thinking the same thing!
For those who aren't in the know, most Nickelback songs sound the same as shown here: http://www.*****.net/nickelback.htm - mogden, on 10/12/2007, -4/+23The problem with IE Tab is that its STILL RUNNING INTERNET EXPLODER, hence theres still all of the nice security issues.
- MadEnvoy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+20Hummers for everyone!
- blindot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I just screamed and mumbled and Bjork came up.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7The second picture looks like she's about to give a blowjob. Freudian slip! Look for yourself.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8Bet it is able to identify this song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDUf6hfYYOE - electricpeak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Direct link to humming search website: http://hsearch.nayio.com/
Works with IE only though for me. - donjaime, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I'll tell you once I can get the page to load....
- heresy0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I yelled "LIE TO ME" over and over again for 15 seconds, and it didn't find a single Godsmack song.
It should have found all of them. - Mac2492, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I'm not.
- aer0sense, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Internet Explorer has encountered a problem with the add-on and needs to close.
Awesome - Kujila, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Uhh, anyone actually gotten it to recognize a song yet? Not me :P
- valkraider, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"I'm confused as to why said Mac user can't use IE, or the IE Tab plugin for FireFox...."
Maybe because there is no IE for the Mac:
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/internetexplorer/internetexplorer.aspx?pid=internetexplorer
And maybe because of that there is no IE Tab for the Mac:
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1419/
I am confused why said website can't make a cross platform application... - quickgold192, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5well at least, you know, you don't get as many viruses ;-)
- WillHutch5, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3wow thats hilarious, didn't see that
- marm0t, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Wasn't there one of these that used the space bar instead of humming?
You would tap the space bar following the beat and it would try and tell you the correct song. - Gameflyer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Anyone catch a glimpse of the "stop" icon?
http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/3736/picsg4.jpg - Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I tried it on Cage's 4'33" but it didn't work.
- tehkain, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Wouldn't work for "This Monkey's gone heaven" by the pixies, "wanna be a balla" by Lil Troy, or "Where Da Hood At" by DMX . I am sad.
- JackHallows, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Sounds great, but it most likely has a limited library. I doubt I would find a bunch of bands, since most artist-search type deals or whatever only have mainstream and well-known artists and bands...
- FatherG, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Somethings tells me if you're looking for a metal song you're out of luck. Imagine trying to get that thing to recognize say, Spheres of Madness by Decapitated or Rational Gaze by Meshuggah.
- f8tbrautmehere, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3So now the RIAA can go after you for humming a copywritten tune...
- JudgeMonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I tried a few Smashing Pumpkins songs to start, didn't even show in the results. I noticed dust in the wind... didn't recognize my rendition. I noticed For he's a Jolly good fellow and I tried that and it actually did return that and the bear went over the mountain (same exact melody) with a 66%.... it's completely worthless, but at least someone is trying with limited success at least.
- aer0sense, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Someone play an actual mp3 song and put it up to the microphone. See if it recognizes it
- a0me, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Seeing as it only identified about 30 percent of the songs sang by a trained musician, it sometimes crashes or simply doesn't work even on Windows, I don't really regret being a Mac user.
- gerkin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Maybe someone just cobbled together all the songs ever used on "Name that Tune" into a database and built a front end on it. Good idea but this one needs some work.
- CocodaMonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Nope. I tried a bunch and couldn't get anywhere close. I even tried EXTREMLY simple stuff like jingle bells and got nothing. I then figured maybe it doesn't have that so I tried diffrent stuff like a few queen songs still nothing. I also tried things like black parade and nada. It's worthless in its current state.
The site which had you tap out a song on your keyboard a month back was WAY better. It got like 90% of the stuff I tried. This I can't even get off 0%. - dandiemer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2that's what i thought too.
- Cheirdal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Um, this is my site. I don't know why someone randomly posted it in this thread but it looks like their digg account is gone. I just ran across the post when googling the site.
- WillHutch5, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yeah, I don't see that working for a lot of genres of music, specifically metal and the likes.
- Etheo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4I just had this exact idea in the shower the other day. I didn't know someone was cooking this up already. I know too many people who can knows the melody of the song but don't know how to find the title...
Alternatively though, you could always just type out whatever lyrics you can remember and add "lyrics" at the end to find the songs. I assume most people know this already. However this is impossible for classical or instrumental musics... where this search engine would come in useful :D Hopefully someone can finetune and make this a popular use. - forgiste, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I had this idea long ago and I hoped google would adopt it first. Oh well, at least someone is finally cashing in on this obvious idea.
- ers35, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It worked for me twice in a row. Pretty cool.
- mapkinase, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Funny quote:
While I think the idea is cool, my wife was unimpressed, both by the implementation and the concept. She says friends are better at identifying music than computers are: "Hum into a computer or phone a friend? I know what I'd rather do."
... illustrating between male and female attitude to humming. Does any heterosexual male digger feels like humming to your friends? - ntdesign, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4It seems very cool, but I'm on linux so I can't use it.
Hopefully there'll be a firefox version soon, using java maybe. - Smily, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I also suggest Tunatic for identifying songs on the conventional radio (through a microphone) or internet radio (stereo mixer on windows - a loopback actually) or just any song you don't know the name of, it has an already quite big library of songs and it's still growing - It's only for WinXP/2000 and OSX for now: http://www.wildbits.com/tunatic/
(I am not affiliated with them in any way). - thesparrowband, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1hahahaha. mmmmm
- jayyoung, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2i played the original song through the sound card, it brought up nickleback, and not smoke on the water like i was playing.
- jchalmer85, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1[grouchomarx]
Say, does it know John Smith?
No, but maybe if you hum a few bars, it can fake it...
[/grouchomarx] - WoahPuppets, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1cool idea
- webphreak, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3He might remind you of Jesus but I'm pretty sure even Jesus wouldn't make music that bad.
- Tyseyh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@ Gameflyer
haha :D Dutty people :P - unusualbob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1umm it helps if you arent tone deaf...
- unusualbob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1the latter
- nwkeeley, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I have been hoping something like this would come along for awhile now.... I hope they work the bugs out of it
- JudgeMonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1make sure your mike is correctly hooked up. I accidentally had it in my headphone port, and if there is no data in the recording, yea, it crashes.
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