Comments on: Hum along, and Midomi recognizes your song http://venturebeat.com/2007/01/26/hum-along-and-midomi-recognizes-your-song/ News About Tech, Money and Innovation Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:57:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: audio download http://venturebeat.com/2007/01/26/hum-along-and-midomi-recognizes-your-song/comment-page-1/#comment-882400 audio download Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:52:10 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/2007/01/26/hum-along-and-midomi-recognizes-your-song/#comment-882400 Thats a great concept from Midomi. Song search services seems new concept to me. But, i think this will be great and helpful. Thats a great concept from Midomi. Song search services seems new concept to me. But, i think this will be great and helpful.

]]> By: DESPINA http://venturebeat.com/2007/01/26/hum-along-and-midomi-recognizes-your-song/comment-page-1/#comment-833803 DESPINA Fri, 14 Nov 2008 06:05:10 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/2007/01/26/hum-along-and-midomi-recognizes-your-song/#comment-833803 I joined Midomi not the beta yet, but I still wish I could upload my songs that I hum on garage band. I usually turn them to mp3 on itunes. I prefer to sound professional, never know what talent scouts are out there watching lol. I joined Midomi not the beta yet, but I still wish I could upload my songs that I hum on garage band. I usually turn them to mp3 on itunes. I prefer to sound professional, never know what talent scouts are out there watching lol.

]]> By: Melodis matches $7 million with its music discovery service » VentureBeat http://venturebeat.com/2007/01/26/hum-along-and-midomi-recognizes-your-song/comment-page-1/#comment-830484 Melodis matches $7 million with its music discovery service » VentureBeat Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:10:11 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/2007/01/26/hum-along-and-midomi-recognizes-your-song/#comment-830484 [...] catchy tune but not know the name of the song or the artist? Midomi, a web site and mobile service, lets you play a recorded song or sing a snippet of it yourself, and then it matches that information.... Then, you can listen to the recommended samples and go buy the song on iTunes or watch related [...] [...] catchy tune but not know the name of the song or the artist? Midomi, a web site and mobile service, lets you play a recorded song or sing a snippet of it yourself, and then it matches that information…. Then, you can listen to the recommended samples and go buy the song on iTunes or watch related [...]

]]> By: [Question] Get Some Help With Tracking Down Those Hard To Find Songs - Page 6 - Allofmp3 Community Forums http://venturebeat.com/2007/01/26/hum-along-and-midomi-recognizes-your-song/comment-page-1/#comment-823715 [Question] Get Some Help With Tracking Down Those Hard To Find Songs - Page 6 - Allofmp3 Community Forums Sun, 03 Aug 2008 22:04:12 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/2007/01/26/hum-along-and-midomi-recognizes-your-song/#comment-823715 [...] RedSmurf, forget the aligators. there plenty such sites available, one that come to mind is -> Hum along, and Midomi recognizes your song VentureBeat <-. this should lead you on. actually, the same people that invented/developed MP3s (Fraunhofer [...] [...] RedSmurf, forget the aligators. there plenty such sites available, one that come to mind is -> Hum along, and Midomi recognizes your song VentureBeat <-. this should lead you on. actually, the same people that invented/developed MP3s (Fraunhofer [...]

]]> By: tom http://venturebeat.com/2007/01/26/hum-along-and-midomi-recognizes-your-song/comment-page-1/#comment-807637 tom Thu, 01 May 2008 08:49:31 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/2007/01/26/hum-along-and-midomi-recognizes-your-song/#comment-807637 hum,hum,hum,i say humbug. that part of the programme is really irrelevant.if you do not know any songs then what the blazes you doing on that website? all one has to do is type the song you wish to give ones rendition of and the technology comes into play for you to carry that out.on top of that one can chat about music etc. it is fun. sing your heart out and enjoy life, tomi. hum,hum,hum,i say humbug. that part of the programme is really irrelevant.if you do not know any songs then what the blazes you doing on that website?
all one has to do is type the song you wish to give ones rendition of and the technology comes into play for you to carry that out.on top of that one can chat about music etc. it is fun. sing your heart out and enjoy life, tomi.

]]> By: Sean http://venturebeat.com/2007/01/26/hum-along-and-midomi-recognizes-your-song/comment-page-1/#comment-628504 Sean Mon, 12 Nov 2007 14:29:09 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/2007/01/26/hum-along-and-midomi-recognizes-your-song/#comment-628504 I think many of you are missing the point of the community aspect. It's not just social networking for the sake of social networking: user contributions power the search engine. For the same reason, it wouldn't be effective just to slap the search algorithm onto a Google application. You need a massive database of songs to bring search success rates up, and amateur, a capella, varied user contributions are better than licensed samples, because they're far closer to the search inputs (not to mention cheaper for the company). This aspect of the site is essentially free karaoke on a massive scale, and even if you don't understand the appeal of that, you must admit that there are many who do, since karaoke remains a popular pastime. The other aspect of Midomi is a user contribution-driven reference site like Wikipedia. However, it's better than Wikipedia in at least two ways: one, people are motivated to contribute for reasons beyond basic altruism -- it's fun, and they can share their singing with peers and receive feedback and recognition while building the search engine's database; and two, poor renditions of songs don't damage the search engine's effectiveness (as incorrect information on Wikipedia harms its usefulness and credibility), they just waste space on the company's hard drives. The community is far from arbitrary. It's an integral part of the search engine, as well as a way for the company to provide two distinct services with one site. I think many of you are missing the point of the community aspect. It’s not just social networking for the sake of social networking: user contributions power the search engine. For the same reason, it wouldn’t be effective just to slap the search algorithm onto a Google application. You need a massive database of songs to bring search success rates up, and amateur, a capella, varied user contributions are better than licensed samples, because they’re far closer to the search inputs (not to mention cheaper for the company).

This aspect of the site is essentially free karaoke on a massive scale, and even if you don’t understand the appeal of that, you must admit that there are many who do, since karaoke remains a popular pastime.

The other aspect of Midomi is a user contribution-driven reference site like Wikipedia. However, it’s better than Wikipedia in at least two ways: one, people are motivated to contribute for reasons beyond basic altruism — it’s fun, and they can share their singing with peers and receive feedback and recognition while building the search engine’s database; and two, poor renditions of songs don’t damage the search engine’s effectiveness (as incorrect information on Wikipedia harms its usefulness and credibility), they just waste space on the company’s hard drives.

The community is far from arbitrary. It’s an integral part of the search engine, as well as a way for the company to provide two distinct services with one site.

]]> By: Gene Linetsky http://venturebeat.com/2007/01/26/hum-along-and-midomi-recognizes-your-song/comment-page-1/#comment-7898 Gene Linetsky Sun, 04 Feb 2007 01:29:39 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/2007/01/26/hum-along-and-midomi-recognizes-your-song/#comment-7898 Looks like it's already becoming yet another collection of "this is me" pics (and now "this is me singing" clips). No matter what you do, kids will find a way to MySpacize it :) On a serious note, melody extraction, indexing, and search is very hard. The state of the art (and there's a lot of ongoing research on this, believe it or not) is very far from 75% precision. There have been many attempts to do QBH (query by humming), and there are dozen of QBH sites that are still live. None work well. Looks like it’s already becoming yet another collection of “this is me” pics (and now “this is me singing” clips). No matter what you do, kids will find a way to MySpacize it :)

On a serious note, melody extraction, indexing, and search is very hard. The state of the art (and there’s a lot of ongoing research on this, believe it or not) is very far from 75% precision. There have been many attempts to do QBH (query by humming), and there are dozen of QBH sites that are still live. None work well.

]]> By: Brett http://venturebeat.com/2007/01/26/hum-along-and-midomi-recognizes-your-song/comment-page-1/#comment-7786 Brett Mon, 29 Jan 2007 14:54:19 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/2007/01/26/hum-along-and-midomi-recognizes-your-song/#comment-7786 To Anon's point Laila's link is right back to their site. I guess the only positive thing one can say is that their fake chat board postings are so badly done that there is no real attempt to hide the association. BTW I love the idea of being able to search but the community aspect is babble - I agree with Ved's thoughts that the search engine integration might be the big idea here. The old sell out to Google. To Anon’s point Laila’s link is right back to their site. I guess the only positive thing one can say is that their fake chat board postings are so badly done that there is no real attempt to hide the association.

BTW I love the idea of being able to search but the community aspect is babble – I agree with Ved’s thoughts that the search engine integration might be the big idea here. The old sell out to Google.

]]> By: MSG http://venturebeat.com/2007/01/26/hum-along-and-midomi-recognizes-your-song/comment-page-1/#comment-7775 MSG Mon, 29 Jan 2007 01:08:33 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/2007/01/26/hum-along-and-midomi-recognizes-your-song/#comment-7775 This is a FANTASTIC idea, if it would WORK. I tried humming several songs, and the only one it got was the Star Spangled Banner. WTF?? It couldn't even recognize a simple Chopin melody, let alone a popular Gn'R song. This idea would be wildly popular, I believe, if it worked atleast 75% of the time. Too bad, cause there's a song that Snoop Dogg and DMX did a while ago that I can't find the name of. This is a FANTASTIC idea, if it would WORK. I tried humming several songs, and the only one it got was the Star Spangled Banner. WTF?? It couldn’t even recognize a simple Chopin melody, let alone a popular Gn’R song. This idea would be wildly popular, I believe, if it worked atleast 75% of the time. Too bad, cause there’s a song that Snoop Dogg and DMX did a while ago that I can’t find the name of.

]]> By: Ved http://venturebeat.com/2007/01/26/hum-along-and-midomi-recognizes-your-song/comment-page-1/#comment-7771 Ved Sun, 28 Jan 2007 17:22:58 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/2007/01/26/hum-along-and-midomi-recognizes-your-song/#comment-7771 I think users would like to see audio search functionality eventually gets incorporated into Google and yahoo search engines. I think users would like to see audio search functionality eventually gets incorporated into Google and yahoo search engines.

]]> By: Erik Schwartz http://venturebeat.com/2007/01/26/hum-along-and-midomi-recognizes-your-song/comment-page-1/#comment-7770 Erik Schwartz Sun, 28 Jan 2007 15:28:21 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/2007/01/26/hum-along-and-midomi-recognizes-your-song/#comment-7770 Yet another company trying to get a small slice of the crappy margins in the music business. The most successful music store in the last few years is ITMS. ITMS has no interest in making a profil selling music, they exist to support the 50% gross margins apple makes selling iPods. Yet another company trying to get a small slice of the crappy margins in the music business.

The most successful music store in the last few years is ITMS. ITMS has no interest in making a profil selling music, they exist to support the 50% gross margins apple makes selling iPods.

]]> By: Bjorn http://venturebeat.com/2007/01/26/hum-along-and-midomi-recognizes-your-song/comment-page-1/#comment-7769 Bjorn Sun, 28 Jan 2007 05:59:05 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/2007/01/26/hum-along-and-midomi-recognizes-your-song/#comment-7769 this is fascinating technology. as a music listener, i have always wondered how else how i could find the song name of a tune i can only hum. But i retain my scepticism for a humming search as a business. that does not mean these guys' startup should be scorned upon as another bubble. without the current healthy VC climate, how else could you test this kind of useful service to its intended consumer audience without taking VC money? who knows, if it really helps sell songs, amazon, apple or the other music sellers would buy it. perhaps humming recognition could be the new pre-purchase song sampling at record stores. this is fascinating technology. as a music listener, i have always wondered how else how i could find the song name of a tune i can only hum.

But i retain my scepticism for a humming search as a business. that does not mean these guys’ startup should be scorned upon as another bubble. without the current healthy VC climate, how else could you test this kind of useful service to its intended consumer audience without taking VC money? who knows, if it really helps sell songs, amazon, apple or the other music sellers would buy it. perhaps humming recognition could be the new pre-purchase song sampling at record stores.

]]> By: Kim Seluga http://venturebeat.com/2007/01/26/hum-along-and-midomi-recognizes-your-song/comment-page-1/#comment-7767 Kim Seluga Sat, 27 Jan 2007 15:29:55 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/2007/01/26/hum-along-and-midomi-recognizes-your-song/#comment-7767 I think I may be a bit tone-deaf since I tried to get the site to recognize 6-7 songs but to no avail I think I may be a bit tone-deaf since I tried to get the site to recognize 6-7 songs but to no avail

]]> By: Matt Marshall http://venturebeat.com/2007/01/26/hum-along-and-midomi-recognizes-your-song/comment-page-1/#comment-7764 Matt Marshall Sat, 27 Jan 2007 02:33:25 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/2007/01/26/hum-along-and-midomi-recognizes-your-song/#comment-7764 Yes, it has licensed 30-second clips from 2 million songs (I mentiond this in 4th paragraph from bottom). Yes, it has licensed 30-second clips from 2 million songs (I mentiond this in 4th paragraph from bottom).

]]> By: Mark Cramer http://venturebeat.com/2007/01/26/hum-along-and-midomi-recognizes-your-song/comment-page-1/#comment-7763 Mark Cramer Sat, 27 Jan 2007 02:24:20 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/2007/01/26/hum-along-and-midomi-recognizes-your-song/#comment-7763 Hmm, I wonder where they get the music from? Is it licensed or unlicensed? Something smells funny about this... Hmm, I wonder where they get the music from? Is it licensed or unlicensed?

Something smells funny about this…

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