Easy Solution to -- What is / was that song ..?

[majithia23]

there are times when i think we all stumble over a good tune or a good piece of music ,

say in a radio ,

or in a video with no details ,

or in a video game ,

or its humming at the back of mind ,

or an untagged mp3 file in your personal collection , ...

its good but we dont know who sang it or its from which album , ..... :mellow:

and then struggle hard to get that song id and details ,

ask here , ask there and all that ..

and if lucky , we might be able to decode it but not always ...

there is a paid service Shazam for smart phones that comes in handy in times like these .

play the song , let the app in the phone hear it and it would then search for the song from its database .

it works good .

but nothing of this type for PC ,

so i was managing my song collection when i found many such type of orphaned songs with no details what so ever .....

>>one of friends recommended me this site ---- Midomi

it works the same way .

play the song , or hum the tune or sing it , and then click where it says click , let it listen for the entire preset duration of 10 secs and wait for the magic to happen ..!

it does identify most of the songs .... :)

excellent - 9/10 :)

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ok continuing ,

i found a few more solutions to the problem ---

>> A Tool for Music aficionados , simple put , Music Geeks ---- MusiPedia

as the capture shows , it has plenty of options to enter a tune and find it .

play a virtual piano ,

or enter a rhythm ,

or play it on the keyboard

or simply sing or record through a microphone ..!

and it works good too .

good one --- 8/10 .. :)

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>> a small desktop app - Tunatic

its not a web solution but a small desktop app . its free .

and it works on Win 7 too .

just let the song play in your media player and then start the app and click on the small lens icon and it would hear the song , upload it and then identify it .

see the capture ....

it worked fast some times , giving results in seconds some time and some times it took it a little longer .

and it is more able to identify some of the more popular tracks .

if a track is not that a hit , it might miss it to identify it ..

but nonetheless ,its simple , neat and still works .

6/10 :)

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>> for those who run out of all the options previously mentioned , and fail to find the song in their heads with any of these services ,

try your luck with a community identify service .

here the computer does not do the job , but rather users like you and me .

record the song , upload it and the community would try to identify it and let you know ..

here -- NameMyTune

its ok -- 4/10

so there you have it ....

all the services i know off and all that worked for me ...

if you know of any more , let us know ... ;)

happy searching ... :)

[sanjoa]

Nice tut, friend! Thanks +1

[kurtcobain]

Very useful. Thanks. +1

[tipo]

thanks man!this is great! +1 ;)

[majithia23]

@jose

@tipo

@kurtcobain

ur welcome people ... ;)

:)