New Google App Feature Lets You Hum a Song to Search for It

[SkyRom]

This was one of the most wished-for features back in the Napster days, considered a Holy Grail of music search once upon a time. I can't stand Google, and their Cyberdynesque tendencies, but every now and then they give us something useful in return for all our privacy and metadata. Next up -> The Rosetta Stone universal translator that several companies are working on.

 

[matrix07]

Or Apple. People seem to forget about Apple.

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Google and Facebook will be multiple times worse.

 

[breather]

Im kinda surprised Shazam hasn't done this yet.

 

[Mr. Donahue]

This guys finally out of a job. Episode of married with children “Al can’t remember a song”

 

[Piggie]

I just hummed the words:

5G,5G,5G,5G,5G,5G,5G,5g,5G,5G,5G,5G,5G,5G,5g,5G,5G,5G,5G,5G,5G,5g,5G,5G,5G,5G,5G,5G,5g,5G,5G,5G,5G,5G,5G,5g,5G,5G,5G,5G,5G,5G,

And amazingly Google found and pulled up last weeks iPhone event

 

[robjulo]

Such paranoia.

Just hum your song to Google app...(so that they can have your microphone access).

 

[yurc]

Allright then, we teaching Google AI for free again.

 

[iBreatheApple]

Although I prefer Shazam, SoundHound had this feature quite a few years ago. I was wondering why they got rid of it. But I doubt it has anything to do with Google because it was truly that long ago. Back then I was especially impressed with the technology.

 

[genovelle]

I'm not a big google fan, but this is another reason why Apple Siri will never catch up to google assistant and their variants.

really? You do realize for years you have been able to ask Siri what Song is playing, then a few years ago the added asking with a few lyrics of the song. Google’s assistant could not do this. Remember even playing a song or opening apps by voice came years later on Android. They were just standard features to us. Heck my first Mac from 2001 could open files and do task by voice.

 

[The Cappy]

The feature is currently only available in English on iOS, but Google says it hopes to expand it to more languages in the future.

So all of you who can only hum in French, you're screwed.

 

[az431]

Google finally figured out how to trick people into letting it listen in on their conversations.

 

[az431]

So all of you who can only hum in French, you're screwed.

Seriously?

The results are in English. And obviously the actual songs that are returned would reflect the region.
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I finally managed to get it to work.
It's a dam hard song to do with your mouth due to the speed.
Humming it is a non starter, and whistling likewise.

I managed to get it to guess the right song by kinda singing, da da da da, da da da da, da, da, da, da, da, da etc, and it got it finally.

As stated in the article, you have to hum.

 

[Jungo]

This redefines the concept of "giving a hummer"

 

[avtella]

Although I prefer Shazam, SoundHound had this feature quite a few years ago. I was wondering why they got rid of it. But I doubt it has anything to do with Google because it was truly that long ago. Back then I was especially impressed with the technology.

Yeah SoundHound was pretty amazing at it, hummed the Axel Foley theme pretty badly and it still got it. This was like in 2017 or 2018. Good to see others doing it too.

 

[romaguyntx]

Trying to get this to work but my app doesn’t show any music button and when u ask google what song is this it does nothing

 

[Ortiz83]

Hope this can help me identify this song I have stuck in my head, goes something like this: "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm ..."

Mine goes, hmm hmm him....

 

[Kabeyun]

Modimi or whatever it was called used have a feature like this, and then soundhound bought them out about 6 or 8 years ago and messed up the app. The feature doesn't seem to work as well as it used, but maybe that's my rose tinted memory. I just seem to recall it being more accurate. Hmm..

Even better than Shazam.
I sometimes found myself listening to a song and unable to shazam it now, I just need to remember the drive of the song to find it later, dope

I'm not a big google fan, but this is another reason why Apple Siri will never catch up to google assistant and their variants.

Doesn't Sound Hound, Shazam and any sound search app need the same access?

SoundHound has had this function for years. If Shazam is supposed to, I’ve never been able to get a hit using it. Too bad that’s the one Apple bought.

 

[fonzy91]

I'm not a big google fan, but this is another reason why Apple Siri will never catch up to google assistant and their variants.

Everyone’s playing catch up. I could hum to my iPhone 4 when it came out, with Sound Hound and it was pretty accurate. I’m actually surprised it took Google this long to implement this feature.

 

[Glideslope]

This is sooo irritating. I'm a whistler not a hummer. I want to Whistle Search not Hum Search.

It's a Humming Monopoly I say !!!!!!!!!

 

[MrGuder]

Yeah!! While your humming there “searching” 😂

 

[LeadingHeat]

Soooo exactly like what SoundHound has done for literally years? Oh, okay cool.

 

[LeadingHeat]

It’d probably work fine - that’s a pretty distinct song. It has no lyrics so it’s dependent on the melody being unique.

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Soundhound did this forever ago.

What I’ve always wanted is an app where you hum to it, and then it doesn’t just identify the song, but it starts playing the song, fading in in sync with exactly where you are. This would be a magical feeling party trick - movies and TV shows have done it many times so it’s not like it’s an original thought on my part - I’m just surprised nobody has done it yet.

Pitch it to SoundHound! They’ve had the humming/whistling feature for literally years. I bet they could implement Apple Music even deeper into their app to do just that!

 

[Rainshadow]

I know I’ve always been in the minority (and it doesn’t bother me to just ignore these apps) but I’ve never found myself in a situation that a song is playing or that I recalled a tune that I wasn’t able to conjure up some of the lyrics. Then a quick google search always works.

Now, I understand some music doesn’t have lyrics, and while I listen to a lot of classical and instrumental music myself, I’ve never wanted to play a particular song in that genre (Or if I do it’s because I know it very well and therefore know the name) Usually it’s more of a feeling or tempo I’m looking for in that case...

🤷‍♂️

 

[Bandaman]

Google and Facebook will be multiple times worse.

Dunno. This is insanely bad.

 

[nylonsteel]

this sounds good
try humming "eruption" by eddie van halen
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