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By: Lola

Lola — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 13:36:13 +0000

read this it’s from some guys blog. Funny lol!

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”.

3 comments ( Comments are open )

By: Garbagenews.com

Garbagenews.com — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 01:34:23 +0000

鼻歌曲名検索エンジン「midomi」の利用方法を考えてみる…

先に【「鼻歌や口笛、口ずさみの歌で曲名が分かる!?」、アメリカで新タイプの楽曲検索サービス「Midomi」が登場】でお伝えした、数フレーズの歌詞や鼻歌などを吹き込むだけで、その曲…

By: Scott N.

Scott N. — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 22:26:47 +0000

We’ve GOT to get you to a karaoke bar.

By: Esme Vos

Esme Vos — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 19:35:39 +0000

I tried singing “Yesterday” (Beatles) for more than 10 seconds and it worked. I am not sure it will pick up more obscure songs in foreign languages. But this is not a bad application.

By: SG

SG — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:38:06 +0000

Try http://www.songtapper.com. No singing required, just a little rythm. It’s not perfect, but it works often enough to be useful. The song names are sometimes off, which makes me think that they are using community submissions to build/tune their database.

By: David Lavery

David Lavery — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 09:09:17 +0000

In the seventies I used to be able to go into my local Virgin records and hum any prog rock track that I’d heard on the radio, and the guys there could tell me right away the track, artist and album. They’d stick it on for me in a listening booth and I was in heaven. I thought that was so cool (mind you I was 13). Somehow its not quite the same when a computer does it for me. I tried this and it got “Stairway” straight away, but then struggled with an eclectic collection from Iggy and the Stooges to George Michael (maybe not too surprising). The big downside was that it couldn’t get “Smoke on the Water”… and how can you not get “Smoke” ????

By: Bolen

Bolen — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 20:28:17 +0000

This is very great startup.

By: scott

scott — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 19:35:24 +0000

There was a very interesting mashup demo’ed at the mashupcamp that does similar thing but uses Amazon mturk workers…

http://developer.amazonwebserv.....egoryID=24

By: Peter Warner

Peter Warner — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 05:57:16 +0000

If they could just combine the ability of Midomi to recognize what people are singing with the database of The Archive of Misheard Lyrics - http://www.kissthisguy.com/ we would have something both useful and hilarious!

By: J S.

J S. — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 21:16:53 +0000

Site seems back up now.

By: Somewhat Frank

Somewhat Frank — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 20:55:58 +0000

midomi Search Engine Names That Tune…

Have you ever heard a new song and wanted to purchase it but had no idea who sings it or the name of the song? It happens to me all the time. I will hear a new song on the…

By: Hamish M

Hamish M — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 16:48:20 +0000

Cool Idea. It was working just a few minutes ago, but while I was setting up my microphone it seems to have died.

By: Jeremy Wright

Jeremy Wright — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 16:40:19 +0000

… I couldn’t even get it to load the results page, nevermind try and find a match.

Oh well, move on. Would have been a great way to find music otherwise.

By: Charles Knight

Charles Knight — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 15:29:51 +0000

Don’t forget the FIRST humming engine - Nayio (www.nayio.com). We have tried it and it works. Nayio is also one of the Top 100 Alternative* Search Engines (*alternatives to Google) that I have compiled.

If you would like your copy of the Top 100 coolest Search Engines you’ve ever seen, send me an email request to:

Charles@CharlesKnightSEO.com Thanks!

By: Ajay

Ajay — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 14:42:08 +0000

Tried the same as well. Hummed my heart out but didn’t get the system to recognize anything I hummed… well… guess the algo needs a lot more to work on.

By: Levon

Levon — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 10:52:25 +0000

Sorry, but I just dont get the point…

Wouldn’t it be easier to just archive the lyrics of all the songs and let the user try to type in a line or two of the lyrics, if they dont know the name of the song…

Seems to me somebody got to creative.

Just for the record, I actually don’t have a microphone, so haven’t tried the service only commenting on the general idea.

Levon

By: Paul Montgomery

Paul Montgomery — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 09:29:22 +0000

Face it Mike, you’re the pimpinest gangsta this side of Compton.

By: Alaska Miller

Alaska Miller — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 09:01:19 +0000

TechCrunch has been really slow lately. It would literally take more than 10-15 seconds to load up. I’m also experiencing quite a few WP errors. Bulk up that hosting package or streamline the site.

By: Ori

Ori — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 08:42:52 +0000

As I wrote on my blog , I’m not certain that poo-pooing this company for a phenomena of the web 2.0 bubble is correct. There are a couple of scenarios in my mind where the investors recoup their investment.
http://microsoftstartups.com/b.....fault.aspx

By: Drama 2.0

Drama 2.0 — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 08:10:19 +0000

If it doesn’t find any matches for you, you can’t sing and probably should not try out for American Idol.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 03:52:53 +0000

I like hearing other people sing. Now if they held a contest or make it more American Idol Like, it would be quite fun. I sang along with the people…would’ve helped if the site had lyrics to help out.

I think the site concept is quite fun…they need to make it more hip though b/c the site looks dry

Some comments I recieved when I was playing this in the lounge:

“Hey this is like having a friend sing along with you when you’re bored”
“You know what this is? singing karaoke with a friend without being embarassed”

Midomi - you have concept approval from the 19-26 crowd,well at least 7 of us …although the site design and ‘feel’ …yeah not very nice…bland

By: lemon obrien

lemon obrien — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 03:48:46 +0000

why would i wanna do this in real life? and yeah…i’m a musician and understand “midi” midwhatever and know how its done. I just don’t get the big “why?”

By: awesomo

awesomo — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 03:31:19 +0000

This might not work perfectly but considering the difficult problem that they are trying to solve then it is not that bad. At least this one startup is based on some technology that they can continue to improve every year with possibly a bussiness model that would be based on selling music online. In my books, it beats all these other social network startups that are based on smoke and mirrors. I wish them the best of luck!

By: Joy

Joy — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 03:26:14 +0000

hahaha I love this post

I think you should rap to it now and see what comes up