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The website's inception traces back to 2005 when Raphaël Arbuz and Thibault Vanhulle, intrigued by online music quizzes, encountered a song they couldn't recall during one of their quizzes. Vanhulle conceived an idea of creating a platform where users could hum a tune to identify songs.
On March 18, 2007, Lydia began her online search for the song on a Usenet group, but later migrated to websites with song identification tools. She posted a 1:15 excerpt of the song to best-of-80s.de (a German forum devoted to eighties synth-pop) and to The Spirit of Radio (a fan site dedicated to Canadian radio station CFNY-FM).
Contrafactum. In vocal music, contrafactum (or contrafact, pl. contrafacta) is "the substitution of one text for another without substantial change to the music". [1] The earliest known examples of this procedure (sometimes referred to as ''adaptation'') date back to the 9th century used in connection with Gregorian chant.
AllMusic. Music information and reviews. ~20,000,000 [7] ~2,200,000 [7] Song samples only. Discogs. • Database: user-generated cross-referenced database of physical & digital releases, artists, and labels. With catalogue numbers, codes, and other markings taken directly from each release.
Swiss Miss, (1926) arrangement of a song from Lady, Be Good. Machinery Gone Mad, (1927) unpublished. Blue Monday, (1927) a piano suite based on Gershwin's one-act opera of the same name. Merry Andrew, (1928) arrangement of a dance piece from Rosalie. Three-Note Waltz, (1931) Also known as Melody #36.
Name That Tune is an American television music game show.Originally created and produced by orchestra conductor Harry Salter and his wife Roberta Semple Salter, the series features contestants competing to correctly identify songs being played by an on-stage orchestra or band.
Shazam is an application that can identify music based on a short sample played using the microphone on the device. [ 2 ] It was created by the British company Shazam Entertainment, based in London, and has been owned by Apple since 2018. The software is available for Android, macOS, iOS, Wear OS, watchOS and as a Google Chrome extension.
The term "lostwave" originated from the search for The Most Mysterious Song on the Internet, recorded from the German radio station Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) in the mid-1980s, likely in or after 1984, by Darius S. In 2007, Darius’ sister, Lydia H., uploaded the song to best-of-80s.de and The Spirit of Radio, sparking widespread interest ...