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.

Published in DMW Daily, January 26, 2007

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Midomi vs. Mercora

Submitted by anonymous (not verified) on February 12, 2007 - 9:57am.

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

Submitted by anonymous (not verified) on February 12, 2007 - 11:55am.

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

Submitted by Uche (not verified) on September 12, 2007 - 7:49am.

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.