Humming tune into a tune search! NPR

Subject: Humming tune into a tune search! NPR
From: Alice
Date: 23 Dec 06 - 10:34 AM

You can hum a song into www.nayio.com and hum a tune into your pc microphone and it will search for the song.
Click here
I'm listening to the NPR radio news report on it right now.
A tool on the site will also help you improve your humming if you can't hum an accurate tune.

Alice

Subject: RE: Humming tune into a tune search! NPR
From: Alice
Date: 23 Dec 06 - 10:41 AM

Well, I was so excited about this tune search engine, I typed the message and entered it without proofing. Let me try that again.

You can hum a tune fragment into your PC microphone and the hum search engine will identify the title.
If you have had a song in your head and can't remember the title, try this web site. I don't know how large the database is. It may be only popular music. I guess we could try a "Stump the Nayio" with all our obscure folk songs and tunes!

Can we get this link to nayio.com in an obvious place on Mudcat for all those who come to the forum looking for the name of a song?

Direct link to the humming search page at nayio is Click here

Alice

Subject: RE: Humming tune into a tune search! NPR
From: Alice
Date: 23 Dec 06 - 10:43 AM

If you sing the tune "la la la" instead of humming, it says it increases accuracy. It doesn't seem to work with my iMac. Nothing starts. Anyone want to give it a trial run and let us know what happens?

Subject: RE: Humming tune into a tune search! NPR
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 23 Dec 06 - 11:25 AM

I tried it a half hour ago, and nothing starts. I'm on XP Pro, and I was using IE.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: Humming tune into a tune search! NPR
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 23 Dec 06 - 11:28 AM

I'm tempted to think it's a publicity scam, just to get people to look at their site.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: Humming tune into a tune search! NPR
From: Bill D
Date: 23 Dec 06 - 12:02 PM

we had a little discussion on this process several years ago..(I posted some site, but it was deemed to need work..) There is supposedly a database that tunes are compared to. I'll see if I can find other info.

Subject: RE: Humming tune into a tune search! NPR
From: Bill D
Date: 23 Dec 06 - 12:12 PM

okay...here's where we discussed it..

and here's the current location for that particular database
http://www.melodyhound.com/

Subject: RE: Humming tune into a tune search! NPR
From: Alice
Date: 23 Dec 06 - 01:16 PM

I heard the demo done on the NPR report this morning, and it was a humming of "Fly Me To The Moon" and result of title.
They are late in posting today's show to the NPR web site, but it should be up later today and you can listen to it then.
Go to www.npr.org and click on the link to "Weekend Edition Saturday". Last Saturday's program is still on the page, but today's
should be up in 24 hours.

Subject: RE: Humming tune into a tune search! NPR
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 23 Dec 06 - 05:17 PM

I heard the NPR piece, and that's why I accessed the site.

But it doesn't work. I don't think they should throw the thing around if they don't have a workable site.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: Humming tune into a tune search! NPR
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 23 Dec 06 - 05:22 PM

I guess I have it figured out. It wasn't working for me because I don't have ActiveX installed. It offered to install ActiveX, and gave a description of the operations of ActiveX.

I canceled out right quick. I consider ActiveX dangerous, and won't have it on my computer. I'll just have to get along without Hum a song

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: Humming tune into a tune search! NPR
From: Alice
Date: 23 Dec 06 - 07:21 PM

bummer

Subject: RE: Humming tune into a tune search! NPR
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 23 Dec 06 - 07:24 PM

DaveO -

You can have ActiveX installed, and turned off except when you want to allow it temporarily for a specific site, at least with WinXP and IE6 or IE7. I agree on it being somewhat hazardous, so you'll have to make the call on whether to let it in at all. It probably is no more hazardous than Flash or QuickTime, etc., if you keep a tight rein on it.

This new tune program appears to be an new effort at "pattern recognition" in music. Quite a lot is being done in this area, but relatively little is "ready for prime time" so far as I've seen. The hang-up has been in having a database of tunes indexed by the patterns they contain.

A somewhat similar venture, for images, is at Polar Rose, where they plan to release a beta program "soon" in which you can show the program a picture of a person and it will search the entire internet for pictures of the same person.

er... that is ... as soon as they've indexed the entire internet, which they're just starting to do.

It also promises to be able to find all the pictures of a given person on your own machine by recognizing the images, which seems like a more reasonable goal at present.

John

Subject: RE: Humming tune into a tune search! NPR
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 23 Dec 06 - 11:53 PM

Which reminds me, I once saw a book a good many years ago, which I really wanted a copy of, which contained the patterns for many tunes indexed purely by the patterns of up and down.

I seem to remember that it was by one of the two famous English guys who appeareed on the BBC Radio shows, My Word and My Music, either Denis Norden or Frank Muir.

Subject: RE: Humming tune into a tune search! NPR
From: GUEST,Nick
Date: 24 Dec 06 - 01:08 AM

Are we sure the NPR report was not created on April First? I know that my humming is not grocked by the very most sophisticated interface...the human ear. What chance do I have with a computer?
Whack Fall The Day
Nick

Subject: RE: Humming tune into a tune search! NPR
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 24 Dec 06 - 10:39 AM

My Beautiful Wife, an accomplished pianist, has a fakebook with an up-down system tune key for the many tunes in the book.

Dave Oesterreich