What a brilliant idea.
How many times have you had a melody stuck in your head but you just can’t work out the name of the song? Sometimes I get fragments of melody going around in my brain and I try to force myself to remember the next line so that I can work out what it is but it just doesn’t come.
According to this story from News.com.au the answer has arrived ….. almost.
We should soon be able to hum into our computers and then let them try to remember the song.
Sandra Uitdenbogerd, a computer science expert has spent the last ten years developing advanced music-recognising technology. She says the technology recognises melody and then searches the internet to track down information about the song.
I guess it won’t be long before the technology is linked to Amazon or iTunes so that we can hum into our computers and then be given the option of buying the song we want. I reckon it’d make life a lot easier for music stores.
I know it’d make it a lot easier for those of us working in radio. When a listener calls up asking about some obscure song they think we’ve played it’d make life so much simpler to have them hum what they know of the melody.
Are there songs that you wish you could remember? Do you have obscure melodies floating around in your head that you wish you could track down? What do you usually do when you’re trying to work out the name of a song?
Posted by Rodney Olsen
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I don´t have a microphone so I couldn´t check this one out, but maybe this works, too? At midomi they say you just need to hum a song and probably, if you´re close enough, they come up with (the right) song.
Oh my goodness, how fabulous this would be. There is a song I heard in the UK about nine years ago that I can’t remember the lyrics of, and I have not been able to find it for the life of me. This sounds fantastic!!
OK, so what about all those tone deaf people? 🙂