I need a search engine I can sing a theme to and it’ll tell me the name of the song!
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I'm Jill Walker Rettberg, Co-Director of the Center for Digital Narrative at the University of Bergen, and Professor of Digital Culture. Blogging here since October 2000.
Dennis G. Jerz
Microsoft has the answer for you…
Jean
Frauenhofer has been working on this: http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,57317,00.html
Dunno if there’s anything available yet though
dr. b.
Purdue Engineers have come up with an image search engine . If we are lucky they’ll work on the audio one next. That will solve the problem of songs being stuck in our heads that we can’t remember fully.
HÂkon Styri
Some people the apparently used to work for Yamaha worked on some music recognition stuff, but they changed their plans and started working on a copyright cop bot (or whatever).
http://digme.typepad.com/blogg/2004/03/lydmagi.html (in norwegian)
Jill
This is wonderful! Thank you! I can’t wait till all these tools are actually out there!
As it was I found the song by searching through iTunes, where it turned out that I had cleverly given the song in question a five star rating while listening to it on my shiny new iPod. I did have quite a few duds before finding the right tune though.
Eli Chapman
You might try Shazam. I don’t know if you can sing a song to them, but it does work if you play a song you want to know the name of into a cell phone.
Jill
That is so cool! Here’s the consumer’s site for Shazam, too. It’s not even awesomely expensive – 59p a go. Only in the UK, though.
Why hasn’t it hit Norway yet, I wonder?
Daniel
and if you know some of the lyric:
“need a little time to wake up” +lyrics
in google and you are a bit closer…
James Sherrett
Over here in Canada, we rely on the Sad Goat to sort out the songs that whirl ’round our heads and whose title we can’t remember. The Sad Goat is a 1-800 hundred toll-free phone number for Richardson’s Roundup, a national radio show on the public broadcaster, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation: http://www.cbc.ca/roundup/
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audiosearch
…and it needs to tell you where to get the album, in case it’s an old song….