Ever heard of a song, but had no possible way of finding it? Like a non-vocal, totally instrumental song you couldn’t even remember the lyrics to, a song that doesn’t have even a single word based on which you can google it up.
Me, I’m the zen master of finding music even when the only frame of reference I have is a single word in that song or its time and place in, say, a movie or TV show (sure, the likes of IMDb and YouTube help a great deal here cos’ there’s usually people asking the same questions as I am and luckily there’s other people who know the answers to them). I SherlockHolmes that stuff down with a 100% success rate, but when it comes to finding instrumental music my knowledge dwindles and shivers away.
Sure there’s web-based tools like Songtapper that try to help people find music with the help of the space-bar and the predisposition that you actually know how the song you want to tap sounds. How accuarate their current results are I don’t really know, but a year or so ago their range only covered mainstream music.
So there’s gotta be something better than song-tapper, right? Well, atm the best I can find is VidtoMp3. When even YouTube comments can’t give me the answer I want I can now at least easily download the video’s audio as an .mp3. It’s also handy if you can’t download the audio file anywhere else…if a video with that song exists, that is. And don’t expect solid bit-rate quality either.
But I have a feeling that I’m not the only one thinking of an universal audio search engine to which I could stream that YouTube video and this search engine would go through it’s ever-growing audio database and find me the result I want. Heck, it could even distinguish between certain versions of that song, like mixes and remixes which are a dime a dozen in electronic music. Since there’s so much music going around it’s really a shame that some of it is so hard to come by. And where would this audio beast feed you ask? Well, ever since web 2.0 sites offer online music databases. The likes of Last FM, Deezer, Songza, TheSixtyOne only to name a few. Their range has well passed the mainstream and if the web has something to offer, that’s everything! Literally, EVERYTHING:) We need a Technorati for music. What you want, when you want.
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