Don’t Be Annoying: Identify Any Song On Your Own
POSTED ON March 15th, 2010 BY Paul
You drove 10 hours to the jam, paid an extra $15 to bring your camera in, and asked some random girl to film your crew’s first battle. You drove the 10 hours back home, transferred the footage to your computer and uploaded it to YouTube. You waited for feedback from your peers on how you did and what you should work on. Instead, you got four people asking “wutz da song?”
It’s one of the most frustrating comments you’ll see on YouTube videos, and yet it’s tough to find a single battle posted online that doesn’t have someone asking some variation of that question. Sometimes it’s asked nicely with a “please” (or more likely a “plllzzzzzz”), but most of the time it’s just demanded.
The reason it’s so frustrating is that most people don’t even try to find the song themselves. If they did, they’d realize that it’s really not that hard. Below are two methods for identifying a song.
1. Search For The Lyrics
One of the fastest and easiest ways to identify music is to simply listen to the lyrics and search for them on Google. If you hear the words “your mighty mighty body baby” in the song, type them into Google like this. Make sure you use quotes so that it searches it as a complete phrase instead of searching for each individual word.
2. Use Song Identifying Software
If you’ve got an iPhone, then you probably already know about Shazam. You hit a button, it listens to whatever music is playing, and a few seconds later it tells you the name of the song and artist. So if you have an iPhone, hold it up to your computer speakers — it’s that easy.
If you don’t have an iPhone, you can use Tunatic. Tunatic uses your computer’s microphone to listen to a song and identify it. If you have a webcam, you have a microphone. Otherwise you can buy a cheap one at Walmart for under $10 — a small price to pay for endless song identifying. Just hold the microphone up to your speakers and hit the search button on Tunatic, and you’ll have the song title in a few seconds.
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Haha love this article beacause it’s a true story haha
I understand what you’re trying to say, but unfortunately there are some videos where you just cannot identify the song, such as this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=hiPIl3ZkePI&feature=related
The instrumental and lyrics are of two different songs. Shazam does nothing since Ronatoune and the crowd shout and cheer which disrupts the service.
Searched for the lyrics, it’s a cover of “I Heard It Through The Grapevine.” Sounds like it might be Gladys Knight: http://tinyurl.com/ye39lha
Once I saw that it was that song I looked at the Wikipedia page, it lists all the covers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Heard_It_Through_the_Grapevine
Happy hunting.
A GREAT method for searching for a song title in a youtube battle is to…read the information of the video. Sometimes…just sometimes…you may get lucky and find it there.
I found myself being THAT GUY one time, when low and behold, the title of the song was on the side in the info section. ha!
na, mo than a stanz. dat sounz way 2 triky,
bside wutz shazam? dat sounds like some hocus pocus ish. an tutanic jus be bitin titanic…damn!
songs titles weren’t supposed to be discovered anyways. that way people can just run it over and over at practice and it gets old and boring.
I agree with this. It’s good to only hear a song every so often so that if it gets played at a jam it still gets you hype.
Refine your searches the way you would refine your moves. Noob juices.
WORD!
Can I post that on redbullbcone.com if I give you guys credit?
Peace
Definitely Nika! All of our content is licensed under Creative Commons, which means you can repost it as long as you provide credit and a link back to our original post.
Here’s the explanation: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/
i like how someone requests for a song… lol its a lot better feeling finding out the song yourself than having someone spoonfeed you the whole time. its either you find the song on your own, or you dont and wait for it at another jam. im guilty for this once in a long while but not all the time
This helps a lot. Thanks. Peace.
This is true, but there has been one song I could never find and it’s really the only song I’ll actively ask for lol. The song from Casper vs Luigi at King of the Ring. I used Tutanic but I got nada.
I’m taking this as a challenge!
If you can prove me wrong I’ll be even happier lol. It’s the last song that plays.
Eh…. you win. Damn.
I feel like I lost lol. I’ll find it one day, then play the hell out of it.
ahaha, and you can extends your post for trailers videos. People prefer ask than click on the “more infos” link…
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Nice, thx. :)