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If You Can Hum It, Nayio Might Find It

webware.com — This morning, the music software and remixing company Nayio is launching its Humming Search feature in the U.S. This tool is supposed to be able to identify songs by listening to you hum a few bars.

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  • 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.
    • crizpiz2, on 10/12/2007, -30/+7Hmmn, IE tab perhaps?
      https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1419/
    • t0mmmmmmm, on 10/12/2007, -6/+102what if one hums a nickelback song? does the software get confused?
    • 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.
    • PhantomBantam, on 10/12/2007, -38/+2t0m, you scum of the earth comment abuser you deserve to be wiped off the face of digg for such comment abuse. Yes, I know I am abusing the system as well, but you've already tainted the thread. No one better digg me up, or respond to me. For for the love of digg, bury t0m and myself.
    • bixing, 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
    • xDreaminGx, on 10/12/2007, -12/+1OK. Sorry sir, I'll digg you down right this second!


      everyone should digg PhantomBantam up for kicks
    • palmer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+32This is an ASCAP trick to find you and sue you for unauthorized performance of a song.
    • steelmaverick, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Can I beatbox the song?
    • Archon810, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Looks like the site got hummerr.... errr hammerred. Pressing the Search button doesn't do jack.
    • wafflez, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1hmm that guy from nickelback always reminded me of jesus 0_0
      lol @ t0mmmmm's comment =D
    • 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.
    • ths453, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The singer from Nickelbrokeback is a guy? I always thought it was Chelsea Clinton.
  • 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.
  • asleep2, on 10/12/2007, -10/+0http://www.mycodedontstink.com/slackers/index.php
    • 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.
  • electricpeak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Direct link to humming search website: http://hsearch.nayio.com/

    Works with IE only though for me.
  • MadEnvoy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+20Hummers for everyone!
  • Grambodino, on 10/12/2007, -19/+7Remarkable! However, my older sister already gives me this sort of service.

    Yeah, bury this comment immediately.
    • sockpuppets, on 10/12/2007, -4/+34You shouldn't get hummers from your sister.
    • mogden, on 10/12/2007, -12/+7You're not the only one getting 'service' from your older sister....
  • 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.
  • FinalSolution, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8Bet it is able to identify this song:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDUf6hfYYOE
  • 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.
    • 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.
    • mogden, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i would imagine it would recognize meshuggah pretty well actually... seeing as how, usually, all of the instruments are syncopated nice and tight.

      rational gaze's intro isn't even that complicated.

      good try though!
  • frankcow, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2this Mac user is spurned yet again by one more prejudiced website
  • Kujila, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Uhh, anyone actually gotten it to recognize a song yet? Not me :P
    • donjaime, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I'll tell you once I can get the page to load....
    • 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%.
    • 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.
    • unusualbob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1umm it helps if you arent tone deaf...
  • ardenr, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2hmmmmmmmm...
    ho hum...
    dum ditty hum...

    sorry
  • 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...
  • techpimp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7The second picture looks like she's about to give a blowjob. Freudian slip! Look for yourself.
  • ndonohue, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is a great idea, one that i've actually wanted ever since I got "take me out" by franz ferdindand stuck in my head a couple years back (sue me). Eventually, some hacker will probably get into the source code and release an open-source version thats better.
  • f8tbrautmehere, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3So now the RIAA can go after you for humming a copywritten tune...
  • aer0sense, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Someone play an actual mp3 song and put it up to the microphone. See if it recognizes it
  • ers35, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It worked for me twice in a row. Pretty cool.
  • 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.
  • Metasquares, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0This has been done many times before - I made something like this myself once.

    One particularly good one was on 8notes, IIRC.
  • aer0sense, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Internet Explorer has encountered a problem with the add-on and needs to close.

    Awesome
    • 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.
  • my98olds, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1What about "mmmmmmmmmmm" by the Crash Test Dummies?
  • whovian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This appears to be a competing site? http://www.namemytune.com/

    And for those of us old enough to remember: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_That_Tune . Particularly the Bid-a-Note game.
  • Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I tried it on Cage's 4'33" but it didn't work.
  • blindot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I just screamed and mumbled and Bjork came up.
  • 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.
  • sdubois92, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1argh! i thought of this idea over a year ago! jesus christ i coulda been rich
  • WoahPuppets, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1cool idea
  • 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.
  • bretttolbert, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0man, either this thing really sucks ass or i really can't hum worth a *****. ;-)
  • 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]
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Caviarmy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Crash test dummies was the first song I tried actually... didn't work.

    ...then I went on and tried 10-15 other songs, none worked.

    ...THEN I tried just playing the song into the mic--didn't work either. This site is total bunk for now.
  • Gameflyer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Anyone catch a glimpse of the "stop" icon?

    http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/3736/picsg4.jpg
  • ggko, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1If you hum the Alphabet Song, does it return that, Baa-Baa Black Sheep, or Twinkle Twinkle Little Star?


    ...or Nickelback?
  • Sevy1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0What a great idea, should be good once they iron all the bugs out of it and expand the library :)
  • 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?
  • 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).
  • dafragsta, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I tried this several times. It seems to like U2 songs, but that's pushing it. Of all the songs I hummed, it got Sunday Bloody Sunday and One (though not from U2, the Mary J. Blige version?)

    Bottom line is that I threw it a decent cross section, and as my previous experience with tone recognition software goes, it doesn't work with the human voice. If you could play it with a guitar, I bet it would be far more accurate.
  • 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
  • jkim4659, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Well, obviously cool technology with discretion.
  • serenadesugar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0well, i just got sterling results with humming 'hard day's night' then 'champagne supernova' (oasis) and 'creep' (tlc). i also got results with 'desperado' (eagles). i am a pretty bad hummer. i realize these songs are not obscure, but i did try to run the gamut a tad.
  • Tyseyh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@ Gameflyer

    haha :D Dutty people :P
  • DesertEagle50, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0and here I was, trying to beatbox that one drum and bass song I want to find... :(
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