Comments on: This Web site can name that tune

Search site Midomi lets users sing, hum or whistle to find song titles from a catalog of more than 2 million tracks.

[Madinat]

not just yet

tried this with a sample from one of redman's finest. guess they just need to increase their library?

[Remo_Williams]

It only works for music...

... and not garbage.

[nyte3k]

Interesting...

Seems pretty cool...

I thought of something like this a couple of years ago, how it would be cool to find a song you didn't know the name of by singing a chorus. Wish i followed through.. :(

[gthurman]

Web to name that tune (and chord?)

Surely to follow is the solution to the problem of amateur musicians trying to identify the beginning chord. The premium edition might let you humm the key you want and the subsequent chords would be produced. (Geez I love this country).

[inachu]

totally awsome but....

it needs more singers and hummers. After 7 different tempos it still hasn't found the song I haven't heard in over 9 years on the radio.

It is new so I still have faith in it will mature.

[CSKnight]

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[aldiviva]

name that tune

Melodic search has been a subject of experimentation for more than a decade. Although results that search musical content are not yet optimizied, many are significantly better at tune identification that midomi. Its strength seems to be in matching the timbre of the singing voice, which may be valuable for social networking, but it useless for finding a specific recording.

On a test involving the statistically most common melodic five-note pattern of five notes, it failed to produce a single valid match.

[Frungi]

Five notes?

The site does ask for a sample of at least ten seconds?