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does this technology exist?
And if not, I’d like to suggest it.
I’m tormented all the time by songs I know or once knew but cannot remember. Like, I will know five notes or a chorus but no lyrics. Or it might be a song without lyrics. And I need to know what the song is so that I can download it. So, if there were some technology that allowed me to hum the song (albeit it would have to be on key) which it could then, like…compare to its database. I mean, I haven’t ironed out all the kinks…but wouldn’t that be a neat thing? Does this exist already? Would it be very difficult to make? Thoughts? Maybe there is already an app for this on the iPhone…I don’t know. I wish I had skills so I could be an inventor.
This technology is being developed, it just doesn’t work very well yet. One company was trying to do it with rhythm, whereby the searcher would bang out the beat using the space bar. So, like, if you were searching for Jingle All The Way you could tap out “tap-tap-tap, tap-tap-tap, tap-t’tap-tap-tap”. But even that doesn’t work very well (not surprisingly.
On the iPhone, there’s Shazam which does work fairly well. That allows someone to hold up a phone to a song being played on the radio (or in a store), and about half the time it gets it right. I imagine it won’t be too long — maybe 5 years — before this technology exists and works.
