We’ve all had a little song stuck in our head at one point or another that we don’t remember the name of. We know the melody, we know what it sounds like, but we don’t know the name or the artist. An easy way to find the name of a song is to search for lyrics online, but what if we don’t know the lyrics? Because English or French, for example. YouTube Music has a solution to help us: humming searches.

“M m mm mmm m”. I don’t know how it’s pronounced, but the buzzing in my head is: ‘It’s Gonna Make You Sweat.’ YouTube Music will be able to help us find that song on the tip of our tongue, thanks to humming, to which we can give different sounds and tones. To do this, simply start a search and click on the “Song” tab that appears. Once you’re in, all you have to do is start humming and YouTube Music’s AI will do the rest. Important point: Since it appears to be a phased rollout, it may not be visible to all users.

Already on YouTube and Google Search. This feature has also been available on YouTube, YouTube Music’s main service, for a while now, but it still doesn’t appear to be a feature available worldwide and/or to all users. In any case, where it comes down to yes or no is in the Google app. Simply start the voice search or alternatively press the widget dedicated to song search. This works like Shazam and, unlike YouTube Music, shows multiple songs and the match percentage so we know which song is most likely the one we’re looking for.

Humming is not new. While it’s always welcome that such functions make their way to mass-use applications (YouTube Music is the third music streaming service in Europe, after Amazon Music and Spotify), it’s worth noting that searching for music by humming has been possible for some time. Shazam’s main rival: Soundhound. This feature has been available for years and the truth is that it works just fine even with whistling.

More interesting ways to search for music. YouTube and Google have the ability to link more…weird searches to precise information. For example, searches like “a rili rili won”, “aaaa stork”, “ebribare” or “Aguanchu bi fri” take us directly to the Spice Girls’ “Wannabe”, to “The Cycle of Life” from the movie “The Cycle of Life”. will take it away. The songs ‘Everybody’ by Back Street Boys and ‘I Want to be Free’ by Queen were featured from Lion King. Although this may seem like magic, it is actually the search engine learning from users’ clicks. If thousands or millions of people type “won a rili rili” and click on the Spice Girls video clip, it’s because that’s what they’re looking for. Google/YouTube just puts the pieces together and positions the best result.

via | 9to5Google

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