Speak softly, love...

[qatarperegrine]

Maybe this is one of those cool webpages everyone but me already knew about, but...

The yakuza boss in the Japanese cop show I'm watching just absentmindedly whistled a tune I felt I should know, and it was bugging me that I couldn't place it.

I thought to myself, hey, don't we live in the future? Shouldn't there be some kind of cool search engine for music by now? Turns out yes: Midomi.com (and some other websites like it) can record you humming a piece of music for about 10 seconds and then tell you what it is!

And sure enough, it figured it out: the yakuza boss was whistling the theme from the Godfather. Nice.

Comments

[dubaiwalla.livejournal.com]

Hmph. It's doing nothing to get me near the piece of classical music I was looking for over the weekend. I suppose it would have helped if I had heard it since elementary school, and thus knew more than a few seconds, but...

[gustavolacerda.livejournal.com]

I just tried it with a Mozart piece, and it totally failed.

What sucks is I can't tell it *which* Mozart piece it seems to be missing. :-p

But yay, awesome technology: seems to work better than previous things I've tried.