WatZatSong - Social Networking for a Song

By Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews

You may recall my earlier post about Midomi. It’s a site where you can go and search for a song, either by humming, singing or whistling part of the tune, or searching via keyword. They’re trying to build a huge database of songs. Well, I heard about WatZatSong this week. You can tell, simply by looking at the front page, that this is more of a community website than Midomi.

WatZatSong (”What’s that song ?” in proper English) is a community website that allows you to:

1) name a song of which you have the tune stuck in your head but neither know the artist nor the title
2) name the other members songs and thus climb the ranking up! More generally, WatZatSong is a music discovery and sharing website based on helping each other. Source: WatZatSong FAQ

Also, from their press release, they say: Other existing solutions usually work with “Query by Humming” technologies and these are unreliable when the recorded sample is not of good quality. WatZatSong is different because it uses human ears, and as we are much more sensitive to rhythm and pitch than a machine, even the worst singers have a chance to find the name of their song!

We Say: FYI, the site’s in France (in case you noticed some of the stilted Enlgish above). They are right about the human ear, last time I heard (pun intended ) no tech can match a human ear. The social networking aspects of it seem pretty cool. Next time you have a tune you can’t figure out, give it a try.