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Shazam for humming. It could be huge!

• kamac 9y ago
  This already exists [1], although I'm not sure how accurate it is. [1]: https://www.midomi.com/ https://www.midomi.com/
  • derwiki 9y ago
    Came here to look for this. IIRC Midomi launched as an app for feature phones? (Razr-era)
  • smnscu 9y ago
    Used that maybe 50+ times, it NEVER gave me anything remotely accurate.
    • croon 9y ago
      Same here. I'm sure it would work if I already knew the song I'm humming, and could sing the lyrics, but that would defeat the purpose of the service. I have great melody memory, terrible title and lyrics memory, and good pitch, and it has never helped me the many times I've tried to figure out what song I got in my head.
  • jakubp 9y ago
    Midomi is fantastic. We made a game out of it: you'd pick a song a try to sing it to Midomi (not hum). If it guesses what you are singing, you score. Note this is for amateurs and for drinking parties :) it doesnt have a lot in the catalogue, but it has enough. Super fun :)
• xeromal 9y ago
  Shazam has that feature years ago. You could hum a tune and it'd try to find it. I don't recall it being that good. My memory might be failing me though. There was another competitor to shazam with an orange soundcloud like logo that also has song id. It could've been that app. Edit: It was soundhound and it supports humming https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.melodis.midomiMusicIdentifier.freemium&hl=en https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.melodis.mi...
  • udfalkso 9y ago
    SoundHound. I never had success with the humming feature though.
  • forgotmypw 9y ago
    It supports it, but it doesn't work that well in my experience.
  • crowbahr 9y ago
    I definitely had success with soundhound. No Rain by Blind Melon was stuck in my head but I couldn't remember the band. Hummed the riff and had it in no time.
    • zerostar07 9y ago
      you sing well?
      • Sohcahtoa82 9y ago
        I'm not the person you asked, but I can tell you that I sing very poorly, yet have gotten SoundHound to recognize songs.
      • gerardnll 9y ago
        I think its about doing the notes correctly, not the voice. I think it could even work with your mouth closed.
        • jacquesm 9y ago
          It's all about getting the direction change of subsequent notes right. Up or Down is all that matters. And the nice bit is that it doesn't matter if you transpose or if you go up too far or down too far for the next note. You'll note that you need to define a sequence of similar notes as 'down' or 'up' to make it work.
        • overcast 9y ago
• hailk 9y ago
  Soundhound also works fine with humming/singing. It isn't perfect and I have an indian accent.