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January 28, 2007
I gave Midomi a quick whirl this morning. It searches for songs based on melodies you hum to it. Fun idea, but it took me six tries before it got one right. It thought my rendition of the opening of Beethoven's Fifth was the 59th St. Bridge song by Simon and Garfunkel, and it thought my rendition of the 59th St. Bridge Song was Oh Daddy by Fleetwood Mac. Midomi offers to play the matched portion of the song (recorded by users, which is rather charming), and in no cases were the match and the matchee recognizably the same, except presumably in some computer algorithmic sense. It did get, "Doe, a Deer" right. Unfortunately, that's the one song whose name is embedded in its melody. I'm no Mariah Carey, but I'm within the bell curve of normalcy for singing on key. Even so, I played the opening notes of the 59th Street song on my keyboard, with my mic laid on top of it. That apparently is Only a Dream in Rio by James Taylor. And Beethoven's Fifth on the keyboard Midomi thinks is the melody to How Deep Is Your Love. If I'm missing the point, I'm sure you'll set me straight. [Tags: midomi everything_is_miscellaneous music search] Posted
by D. Weinberger at January 28, 2007 12:49 PM
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Have a look at this I found it on someguy's blog:
My Review of Midomi
Posted on January 29th and has 3 comments
Filed Under: personal
Midomi is an online service that lets you hum or sing a song into your computer microphone and it will supposedly recognize the song and tell you the title, artist, blah, blah, blah.
Cool, right?
So I tried it out and sang a few bars to "You are not alone" by the genius that is R. Kelly. It guessed that I was singing "Oh Come, All Ye Faithful".
Ok. It's a new service, let me try a more reconizable song. I sang "SexyBack" by JT and Midomi thought I was singing "The Farmer In The Dell". Wow.
I understand that I am not exactly Andrea Bocceli. I understand that I am not even on the level with people who are "going to Hollywood, dawg" on American Idol, but I can hum a song.
At this point I thought that maybe this service is so new that my songs are not in the database. Since it thought my last attempt was "The Farmer In The Dell", I tried actually singing singing "The Farmer In The Dell".
It said I was singing "As Long As You Love Me" by the Backstreet Boys.
I hate you midomi.
I would love to hear your results from using this service. Please post them in the comments.
Postscript: My wife (who apparently thought I was recording a music video or some sort) informed me that I was lame and needed a better song. She also said, "that's terrible".
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Posted by: Derrick | February 21, 2007 08:51 AM