A Program That Detects Songs By Sound And fills stuff

[White Cuban]

is there such great program, that looks into the song itself lets say i dont even know its name and its called 123.

and it finds everything, and fills it in, even cover art?. that would be splendid.

[markwolfe Veteran]

That happens when I rip songs from my CDs. Or are you buying them from iTunes or Amazon or such?

[+Nik Louch Subscriber²]

OK, so the app wants to play the mp3 to itself, look it up, download the details and populate ID3 tags?

Something that accesses the gracenote DB would be a start I guess?

Problem is, how much does it listen to?

"My band - My Song (DJ PlebMonkey Radio Edit)" and "My band - My Song (DJ PlebMonkey Extended Club Mix)" may sound very similar but will be different tracks...

[White Cuban]

analysis it, i don't know, i really don't know much about it, long story short, my song database with like 20Giga songs is messed upside down (virus probally, messed up ton of stuff) so they're named 59dek. and so are they're folders, i just need something to sort them out somehow :/

[Numpad]

well i had a number on my phone that i could dial up, it would listen down the phone for a few seconds and work out wotever the music was that i was playing and text it back to me... costs a fortune though lol..

good idea having it on the pc tho.. if its not out, invent it! lol

[+Nik Louch Subscriber²]

Do they still have ID3 tags?

[jerzdawg]

well i had a number on my phone that i could dial up, it would listen down the phone for a few seconds and work out wotever the music was that i was playing and text it back to me... costs a fortune though lol..

good idea having it on the pc tho.. if its not out, invent it! lol

Verizon cell phones have this built into their newer phones now... if a song is on the radio.. just open up the app.. let it listen to the song.. and it will give you the song and artist name... this would be a great feature for a PC/MAC application... I guess its as good as its database though...

[CPressland]

The iPhone already has this feature with Shazam, which leads me to assume it wouldnt be hard to make an app like this.

I might make a Mac app, but not a Windows one, Cocoa is just so much easier

[Archstroke]

There is a program called Tunatic that does something similar. It listens to the song and then provides the song name and artist. However you need to be connected to the internet to use it.

[White Cuban]

There is a program called Tunatic that does something similar. It listens to the song and then provides the song name and artist. However you need to be connected to the internet to use it.

shizzle, last time i checked i was posting here with my printer :/, you sure i need internet? thats kind of a problem.

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Ehm, ill check it out, is it free?

thank you.

Edit:

just checked it, wtf does it need a microphone? can't it just look into file, won't that be more accurate?

also, i have a bucketload of songs, if i need check 1 by one it would take forever, would be faster doing it by hand (i know ALL my songs if i hear them for 10-20 seconds, its just so many, thats the problem)

[MightyJordan]

If you've got a microphone, try Midomi Just play/sing a bit of the song, and it should guess what it is.

[johncena001]

Is it really that hard to just listen to the lyrics and type a few of them into google?

[Cavalyr]

it is a problem when you have 20GBs of tunes. something automatic would be nice.

[White Cuban]

Is it really that hard to just listen to the lyrics and type a few of them into google?

20GB (at least) of songs from all over maps(though maybe half is maybe discographys, sorting by album's and stuff, sigh)

i'd really would like checking my options before i go spend a lifetime :)

[backdrifter]

In Winamp there is an Auto-Tagger function which you can use with as many files as you want. I'm not sure if it works like you described, but I used it with some tracks which don't seem to have proper ID3 tags, and it still worked. You might want to give it a try.

[darkmanx21]

Dude, if a program like that existed it would be awesome...but I don't think it does exactly what you want. If so it would not have taken me months to do..

Man, I have over 35 gigs of music, and I tag everything (well, mp3tag) by hand and then back it up right away in 2 different locations. It sucks that your music got messed up, but if the tags are still there it should be no problem renaming them with mp3tag. -->CTRL+A-->ALT+1-->ENTER..done.

[Cyanide911]

http://www.jthink.net/jaikoz/jsp/startup.jsp

You're welcome.

[ckempo]

Winamp's auto-tagger will be 98% accurate on this, and if not - use Musicbrainz Picard, which does exactly what you want.

Edit: Just looked at Jaikoz - that uses the Musicbrainz DB to work its magic too.

[White Cuban]

pheonix, can i do it on a folder which has thousands of songs and it will work?

[chroniX]

In Winamp there is an Auto-Tagger function which you can use with as many files as you want. I'm not sure if it works like you described, but I used it with some tracks which don't seem to have proper ID3 tags, and it still worked. You might want to give it a try.

I'd use this too.

After installing winamp, just right click your music folder and select "Enqueue in Winamp." Then go to the playlist and select all the files (ctrl+a), and right click the play list >> send to >> auto-tag.

That should tag most of your music. There might be a few exceptions on rarer songs, but for the most part it's accurate.

Now, if you want to rename all your mp3 files using the idtags, download/install Mp3tag.

Open the program and select your music folder, select all mp3s (ctrl+a), and right click >> convert >> tag - filename.

You're music collection should now be tagged and renamed. Hope this helps. :)

[BoJo]

iEatBrainz does exactly this with 99% accuracy. It helps me get my track names when iTunes doesn't like stuff. It might be mac only... not quite sure. Here is a screenshot:

[Cyanide911]

pheonix, can i do it on a folder which has thousands of songs and it will work?

Yep.

@Apop : That's the Mac equivalent of Jaikoz I think. It's by the same company. Though Jaikoz has it's own Mac version.

Edited October 6, 2008 by PhoenixAnkit

[-KJ]

I use MusicBrainz Picard. Works wonderfully.

Doesn't work too well for the lesser known remixes, etc. but that's understandable.

http://musicbrainz.org/