Any way to get a name for the music playing?

[The Shadow]

Is there a program that can tell you the name of a song that's playing on the computer if you don't know the name?

I'm talking like for videos and things like that.

Pretty sure there isn't, but I have to at least try.

Thanks.

[Celine]

The first person to code something which can do that will be more famous than a youtube hoe

[doggieiscool]

I would have to say its almost impossible. Unless theres some program that listens to the song and goes through an internal database. Sounds like a job for McGyver \m/

[Shendo]

There is one program for winamp, it is called Evillyrics.
Tells you the name and the lyrics from the song, if the song is in database.

[Celine]

That obviously works on parsing the artiste/title in the tag; it won't work on raw formats. If you have the artiste name and title you can just google them up yourself...

[Shendo]

Probably, it is the nice idea though, you don't have to waste time on googleing.

[Hard core Rikki]

Originally Posted by doggieiscool

I would have to say its almost impossible. Unless theres some program that listens to the song and goes through an internal database. Sounds like a job for McGyver \m/

McGyver? Exagerated.
Predixis Magic (integrated in Winamp) already indexes music you have with fuzzy hashes inside a big database it owns, to allow for mixing depending on the mood/style of the music you want to listen to.

different hashes are produced for music that is different in AT LEAST 1 BYTE, resulting in reportedly different files. Fuzzy hashing accounts for lossy compression and permits creating hashes that are highly accurate, even if bitrate/quality is different for a single track of music.
It is reported in white paper that those algorythms, if properly implemented cannot be fooled, so it should mean: fully accurate analysis=99.9% proper music tagging+rename possible.
And Fear not, should not mistake Eminem music with Madonna track... :guitar:


They could EASILY make a plugin to allow winamp to retrieve BACK the names for those unproperly tagged musics present in your system, but they're not going that way apparently. TOO... BAAAD... This reaally s*cks

Hope there's any solution for this. CDDB kinda sucks as its for commercially released audio-CD's only. If you burn unproperly named iPod music on audio-CD, you'll lose the tagging

For info on FUZZY HASHING, read this HP document (original subject was DRM and how to identify multimedia piracy)

http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:K...r&ct=clnk&cd=4

[Celine]

Rikki: I'd love to see that in implementation.

[orysyz]

Guess an AI implemetation in Music player Hmm.....

[scottlc]

There are phone-based services in the UK that claim to be able to identify a track based on about 30 seconds of audio if you put your phone up to the speaker. I have no idea how well it works and would imagine that the cost of the call is high.

[Shendo]

Originally Posted by scottlc

There are phone-based services in the UK that claim to be able to identify a track based on about 30 seconds of audio if you put your phone up to the speaker. I have no idea how well it works and would imagine that the cost of the call is high.

Hehe imagine that they put the song on large speaker and all the people that
are working there listen the song and if anyone knows what is name of the song
he tell that to the person who called.

[Shadow_Cast]

http://www.songtapper.com/

might be able to help you

[Hard core Rikki]

Originally Posted by Shadow_Cast

http://www.songtapper.com/

might be able to help you

different from what we were hoping for but should still help melomanes.
I think the best bet would be to request back-tagging in winamp from Predixis.

Predixis has an industry-filled database with propre tags and all.

Since they CAN identify the music you have, based on a loose hash (regardless of compression, to an extent), AOL should allow back-interaction with that database to allow for auto-retagging or auto-renaming in winamp. would be VERY WORTH getting the PRO version, even for 50 dollars.

A single plugin could do that. A shame it hasnt been implemented yet.