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BAC5.2 · 09-05-2008, 03:58 AM

Are there any cool programs on the net that can identify unknown songs?

I have a BUNCH of songs on my laptop that I cannot identify and it'll drive me crazy to not have a decently organized music list. I've probably got around 100 unknown songs.

Ideas?

bland · 09-05-2008, 04:06 AM

Only way I can think of would be to take part of the lyrics and search them out. This would take a lot of time on more than a couple songs.

guroove · 09-05-2008, 05:19 AM

If you have entire albums, you can burn them to a CD and let iTunes find it on gracenote music database. Other than that, I'm afraid the lyric search is the only other way.

TheEmrys · 09-05-2008, 05:50 AM

Verizon Cell phones can do it as well. The tech is out there. I'm sure there are computer programs that can do it. I'll search around.
<1 minute later>

Tunatic: free music identification software

This is a program that claims it can do it. YMMV.

flstffxe · 09-05-2008, 07:59 AM

hmm interesting.

KeNd0 · 09-05-2008, 08:04 AM

Bah! Invite a bunch of people over for a name that tune party. You`ll be the winner ;)

bbottomley · 09-05-2008, 08:06 AM

The title and artist is usually contained in metadata that's part of the MP3 format. I'm sure there are some MP3 editing programs around that will show this, but I don't have the names of them at the tip of my fingers. An alternative (and fun) approach is a WinAmp plugin called Evil Lyrics. The moment a song starts playing, it goes out to its database of lyric sites and pops up the song's lyrics and other info. It's usually pretty successful unless the song is extremely obscure.

EvilLyrics 0.1.9 Final - Free Download EvilLyrics by Evil Laboratories

Edit: Check here for a whole bunch of MP3 editing programs. NONAGS MP3 Management - Freeware

funkymonkey1002 · 09-05-2008, 08:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bbottomley

The title and artist is usually contained in metadata that's part of the MP3 format. I'm sure there are some MP3 editing programs around that will show this, but I don't have the names of them at the tip of my fingers. An alternative (and fun) approach is a WinAmp plugin called Evil Lyrics. The moment a song starts playing, it goes out to its database of lyric sites and pops up the song's lyrics and other info. It's usually pretty successful unless the song is extremely obscure.

EvilLyrics 0.1.9 Final - Free Download EvilLyrics by Evil Laboratories

Edit: Check here for a whole bunch of MP3 editing programs. NONAGS MP3 Management - Freeware

The biggest problem is if it was ripped without access to the internet, so that the computer couldn't pull down the gracenote data when creating the mp3 file. Then you get the "unknown artist" and "untitled" in the metadata.

bbottomley · 09-05-2008, 08:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by funkymonkey1002

The biggest problem is if it was ripped without access to the internet, so that the computer couldn't pull down the gracenote data when creating the mp3 file. Then you get the "unknown artist" and "untitled" in the metadata.

Indeed.

Phil didn't give us any insight into the heritage of his stuff.

scubadoober · 09-05-2008, 08:48 AM

A friend of mine used to have a hand held Sony device that could do this. You'd record a clip from a speaker or radio, hook it up to their website and it would make suggestions. It only worked 25% of the time and the recording had to be pristine (no background noise).

ewong_kaizen · 09-05-2008, 10:03 AM

In case anyone was wondering...

GraceNotes works on a algorithm that uses the "lenght" of the track and the number of the tracks on the album to relate an album / CD to a album'CD object in its database. It does NOT actually "listen" to the music and ID the song(s).

There was an infamous case of a pianst who was plagerizing entire albums by obscure artists who was busted by GraceNotes...

Too Perfect Harmony: How Technology Fostered, and Detected, a Pianist's Alleged Plagiarism

Pianist's Husband Admits Fraud: Initial Discovery on iTunes Verified, Magazine Reports

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bbottomley Engineer Contributing Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: New London, NH Posts: 4,109 Gallery: 0 iTrader: 1 / 100%	The title and artist is usually contained in metadata that's part of the MP3 format. I'm sure there are some MP3 editing programs around that will show this, but I don't have the names of them at the tip of my fingers. An alternative (and fun) approach is a WinAmp plugin called Evil Lyrics. The moment a song starts playing, it goes out to its database of lyric sites and pops up the song's lyrics and other info. It's usually pretty successful unless the song is extremely obscure. EvilLyrics 0.1.9 Final - Free Download EvilLyrics by Evil Laboratories Edit: Check here for a whole bunch of MP3 editing programs. NONAGS MP3 Management - Freeware __________________ 2003 XS Premium MT - 2005 Impreza 2.5 RS MT

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09-05-2008, 04:06 AM	#2 (permalink)
bland Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 1,264 Gallery: 0 iTrader: 4 / 100%	Only way I can think of would be to take part of the lyrics and search them out. This would take a lot of time on more than a couple songs.

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TheEmrys Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Northern Colorado Posts: 259 Gallery: 0 iTrader: 0 / 0%	Verizon Cell phones can do it as well. The tech is out there. I'm sure there are computer programs that can do it. I'll search around. <1 minute later> Tunatic: free music identification software This is a program that claims it can do it. YMMV.

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KeNd0 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Alberta, Canada 07FXT Posts: 412 Gallery: 0 iTrader: 3 / 100%	Bah! Invite a bunch of people over for a name that tune party. You`ll be the winner ;)

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scubadoober Join Date: May 2008 Location: mtns of tenn Posts: 427 Gallery: 0 iTrader: 0 / 0%	A friend of mine used to have a hand held Sony device that could do this. You'd record a clip from a speaker or radio, hook it up to their website and it would make suggestions. It only worked 25% of the time and the recording had to be pristine (no background noise).

09-05-2008, 10:03 AM	#11 (permalink)
ewong_kaizen Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Philly Posts: 371 Gallery: 0 iTrader: 1 / 100%	In case anyone was wondering... GraceNotes works on a algorithm that uses the "lenght" of the track and the number of the tracks on the album to relate an album / CD to a album'CD object in its database. It does NOT actually "listen" to the music and ID the song(s). There was an infamous case of a pianst who was plagerizing entire albums by obscure artists who was busted by GraceNotes... Too Perfect Harmony: How Technology Fostered, and Detected, a Pianist's Alleged Plagiarism Pianist's Husband Admits Fraud: Initial Discovery on iTunes Verified, Magazine Reports