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'Shazaam' iPhone/Android app does nearly that... it can identify the song by listening to a part of the actual recorded song. But it still can't identify the on

'Shazaam' iPhone/Android app does nearly that... it can identify the song by listening to a part of the actual recorded song. But it still can't identify the one that you sing or play on an instrument... I am pretty sure they'll be working on something like this...

bambax 14y ago
Shazaam doesn't do what I describe, it just tries to match part of a performance to the recording of that exact performance. In my experience, it also doesn't really work.
- hboon 14y ago
  Anecdotally, it works very well for me the last few years. On the other hand, Gracenote — which Path uses — has been terrible for me. Does Shazaam not work well for you for a particular genre?
  - bambax 14y ago
    To be fair, I didn't test it extensively, but the couple of times I tried it (on French songs, mainly) it failed. I also don't fully understand the use case, except maybe if you listen to a lot of radio in a car? At home the music that comes out of my speakers is music I already own; sometimes I listen to radio but even then it's usually faster and more certain to just go to the station's website to check what music was playing a few minutes ago, than to be able to launch Shazaam before the song has finished playing. Now if I could sing into an app that would be completely different.
    - hboon 14y ago
      Ah. I've only tried in on English (language) songs. It's handy if you are out in a cafe or otherwise, public area and want to identify a song. Singing into the app would be cool. In my ex-company, there were folks working on getting it to work for Karaoke. So you can hum a song and it'll figure out the right track for you to sing with. I don't know if there's a commercialised product like this.
    - ssha 14y ago
      To shazaam's credit, it identifies popular songs even in non-english languages (Bollywood, Italian, several French songs; anecdotal evidence anyway)
- codingblues 14y ago
  yup, it only matches the exact parts but that it does that very well, It even identified a very old and unpopular song in Marvadi language (a minor dailect of hindi, spoken in some parts of Rajasthan, an Indian state). that must mean that they maintain a very extensive database...
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bambax 14y ago

Shazaam doesn't do what I describe, it just tries to match part of a performance to the recording of that exact performance. In my experience, it also doesn't really work.

hboon 14y ago
Anecdotally, it works very well for me the last few years. On the other hand, Gracenote — which Path uses — has been terrible for me. Does Shazaam not work well for you for a particular genre?
- bambax 14y ago
  To be fair, I didn't test it extensively, but the couple of times I tried it (on French songs, mainly) it failed. I also don't fully understand the use case, except maybe if you listen to a lot of radio in a car? At home the music that comes out of my speakers is music I already own; sometimes I listen to radio but even then it's usually faster and more certain to just go to the station's website to check what music was playing a few minutes ago, than to be able to launch Shazaam before the song has finished playing. Now if I could sing into an app that would be completely different.
  - hboon 14y ago
    Ah. I've only tried in on English (language) songs. It's handy if you are out in a cafe or otherwise, public area and want to identify a song. Singing into the app would be cool. In my ex-company, there were folks working on getting it to work for Karaoke. So you can hum a song and it'll figure out the right track for you to sing with. I don't know if there's a commercialised product like this.
  - ssha 14y ago
    To shazaam's credit, it identifies popular songs even in non-english languages (Bollywood, Italian, several French songs; anecdotal evidence anyway)
codingblues 14y ago
yup, it only matches the exact parts but that it does that very well, It even identified a very old and unpopular song in Marvadi language (a minor dailect of hindi, spoken in some parts of Rajasthan, an Indian state). that must mean that they maintain a very extensive database...

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