Query by humming
{{Short description|Music identification system}}
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Query by humming (QbH) is a music retrieval system that branches off the original classification systems of title, artist, composer, and genre. It normally applies to songs or other music with a distinct single theme or melody. The system involves taking a user-hummed or whistled melody (input query) and comparing it to an existing database. The system then returns a ranked list of music closest to the input query.
One example of this would be a system involving a portable media player with a built-in microphone that allows for faster searching through media files.
The MPEG-7 standard includes provisions for QbH music searches.
Examples of QbH systems include ACRCloud, SoundHound, Musipedia, Tunebot and Google Search.
External links
- {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081221191111/http://mirsystems.info/index.php?id=mirsystems |date=December 21, 2008 |title=Comprehensive list of Music Information Retrieval systems (apparently last updated ca 2003) }}
- [http://www.cs.cornell.edu/zeno/papers/humming/humming.html Query By Humming – Musical Information Retrieval in an Audio Database], paper by Asif Ghias, Jonathan Logan, David Chamberlin, Brian C. Smith; ACM Multimedia 1995
- [http://cs.nyu.edu/~eugenew/publications/humming-summary.pdf A survey presentation of QBH by Eugene Weinstein, 2006]
- [http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may97/meldex/05witten.html The New Zealand Digital Library MELody inDEX], article by Rodger J. McNab, Lloyd A. Smith, David Bainbridge and Ian H. Witten; D-Lib Magazine 1997
- [http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/35292/10373_ftp.pdf?sequence=1 Name that Tune: A Pilot Study in Finding a Melody from a Sung Query], article by Bryan Pardo, Jonah Shifrin, and William Birmingham, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, vol. 55 (4), pp. 283-300, 2004
- [https://www.pcmag.com/news/cant-find-the-name-of-a-song-just-hum-or-whistle-the-melody-to-google Can't Find the Name of a Song? Just Hum or Whistle the Melody to Google] (PCMag, Michael Kan, October 15, 2020)