Midomi.com Identifies Songs Users Sing, Whistle Into a Computer Mic

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on January 26, 2007 - 12:13pm.

Sunnyvale, Calif. - Melodis Corporation, a developer of search and sound recognition technologies, on Friday introduced a free service that lets users search for music by singing, whistling or humming a few bars of a song to identify the track.

The service returns a list of song samples that are potential matches for the section of the song sung or whistled by the user.

Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Melodis said the technology that powers Midomi.com is its Mutimodal Adaptive Recognition System (MARS), which extracts a variety of features from the tune including speech, pitch, tempo, and even the location of pauses.

Melodis has licensed 2 million tracks that Midomi.com will sell, providing links from song sample matches. The site also allows users to contribute to the service by tagging their favorite songs -- recording themselves singing the tune and saving the sample to the site.

The Melodis management team is comprised mostly of graduates from Stanford University.

 

Related Links:
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http://www.midomi.com



Comments

Midomi vs. Mercora

I am not going to waste my time plugging a mic into my PC every time I want to find a song. I would rather use a site like Mercora, where I can also get the entire song, rather than just a clip, unlike Midomi.

Midomi

You can only download clips of songs on Midomi. On other sites like Mercora, you can get the entire song. To me, that seems a lot more usable than having to hook a mic up every time you want to find music. Just my opinion.

Cool search engine

I think the Idea of Midomi is really cool cos if you have a pc mic, then it's almost always connected to your pc anyways. If you've forgotten most of the parts of a song and can only humm a little portion, Midomi helps u find that song - how awesome!!. Moreover, u can record your own version of songs and so on. I personally think Midomi.com is the music search engine of the future.

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