08-03-2008, 10:27 PM
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Originally Posted by RedSmurf
I'm also wondering if this thread is about music or alligators, but I'll have a shot anyway. 
Next to a large list of songs that I have been looking for during years (which I won't annoy you with at this time), I also have some recordings or sound fragments from unidentified instrumental songs. Even though I doubt anyone will recognize them, it would be fun 
The first one is a song that's used in the trailer for "March of the Penguins": http://tinyurl.com/6kfes7. It sounds familiar, at first I thought it came from the soundtrack of the movie "The Rock", but that's not it. This fragment is extremely short, if you watch the trailer you can hear a little more of it under Morgan Freeman's voice-over.
The second one may or may not be more difficult. The sample is a crappy recording made with my cell phone during a party. It's a techno song which was popular about 5 years ago, and with popular I mean in Belgium. It's perfectly possible that nobody outside Belgium has ever heard this song. But if you know it, even this crappy recording should be more than enough to recognize it: http://tinyurl.com/5buwjp
And to finish, probably something impossible: this is also a crappy recording (with quite a lot of noise) of a purely instrumental song and despite the fact that I recognize it, I have no idea how old it is, whether it's from a movie or not, and not even what the main instrument is (could be an accordeon). Have fun: http://tinyurl.com/5e5kc2
A colleague of mine has a SonyEricsson cell phone which contains an application called "TrackID". You simply need to record 10 seconds of a song (e.g. during a party) and it will upload this fragment to a server which identifies it. It works amazingly well. I have been looking for a website which offers the same functionality but I have found nothing so far. Even then, I think it would only be able to identify the second fragment. |
Not familiar with the rest, but I did check that the score to the March of the Penguins is an original composition for the movie (composer: Alex Wurman). Fairly generic kinda tune, I guess. Therefore, may be reminiscent of any number of compositions. The film does have a sountrack, if you are interested.