You know the one.. It goes da da da dum da da da dumm dum da…

No I don’t know the lyrics, no I don’t know who its by. Oh well I guess we can’t find out what the song is.

Well not anymore! Previously if you had a song stuck in your head going over and over and over again, the only real way to find out what it is, even who its by would be to hum it to someone around you (assuming you don’t know any of the lyrics that is). But what if you have no friends, or worse, you have lots of friends but their all deaf and thus unable to help you on your musical quest.

INTERNET TO THE RESCUE!

A new site (still currently in beta) called midomi. It lets you hum, sing or whistle your tune to it and it will run off and try and match the melody. Hell, you can even just concentrate hard and it will pick up your thoughts and find it for you. Ok, it can’t really do that but it’d be cool if it did huh? Lets hope thats in a future release.

More than just a site to help you find that single song stuck in your head, it lets you listen, rate and even download the song once its found it. And if it can’t find a match for your hummings in it’s database – it will save it and when (and if) it eventually finds it in the future it can let you know. Great stuff.

The site uses something called MARS – short for the catchy titled Multimodal Adaptive Recognition System, developed by the company Melodis to figure out what on earth it is your singing to them. Its only the first trial run of the system but if it goes well, I’m sure that we’ll end up finding it all manner of places before too long.