What's the name of that song?!

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Did you ever have a tune running through your head and you just couldn't remember the name of the song? Fret no more! Just link over to Midomi.com and sing or hum a few bars of the tune into your computer's microphone. Quick as a wink, you'll have a listing of songs that match your tune. It's really amazing... and no, I'm not a good singer.

It returned correct results on a few tests I ran, including Fur Elise, Pop Goes the Weasel, and that Sesame Street classic, Rubber Ducky. However, I was able to stump them with the opening cadence of Deep Purple's Smoke on the Water. Clearly, this search engine was never in a garage band!

Beyond the technology, the really interesting thing is that people log in and create profiles and add recordings. Kind of hard to explain... like Name That Tune meets MySpace. Like online karaoke. It'll be interesting to see if the social networking aspect of Midomi turns it into more than just a novelty search engine.

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Posted by Pat McClellan on January 29, 2007 9:57 PM | | Comments (3)

Comments (3)

Dan said:

What a fantastic site! I'm not sure they are aware of Pearl Jam songs or perhaps I just can't mimic Eddie Veder's mumbing as well as I should.


moshe said:

great site. I got a success search on "somewhere over the rainbow". so much fun


Fabia said:

That is such a wonderful concept... the amount of times that I have lost my mind to the insatiable desire to find out the name of some relentlessly repetitive song... is ridiculous!


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