SongTapper.com - Name That Tune Stuck in Your Head

If you’ve ever spent way too much time trying to identify a song stuck in your head (admit it - you have!), try pointing your browser to SongTapper.com next time. On this easy-to-use site, users can tap out a rhythm on their keyboard and the program will return a list of possible song matches. The site claims to already recognize over 71,000 songs, and each time a user taps a song that is not identified correctly, they can submit the title and/or artist to help train the program. You can even listen to a playback of the tune you tapped. The site includes a video example of how to tap out “Jingle Bells,” and users can browse through all songs in the database or check out lists of the most popular or most recent searches. The program is not difficult to use, even without watching the video example, but you must tap at least ten notes to perform a search.

A few test runs found the accuracy of results to be fairly inconsistent. SongTapper correctly identified my renditions of Jingle Bells and Madonna’s “Like a Virgin” on the first try, but it took two attempts to recognize “Billie Jean” by Michael Jackson, and could not identify “Summer Lovin’” from the Grease Soundtrack or several other tunes that I tapped, even after numerous attempts.

Not sure what the name of a song is? Use your computer keyboard to tap the rhythm of the song. SongTapper.com will help you find the name of the song. Its fun, its easy, and thousands of daily visitors find it very helpful.

All you have to do is tap the song rhythm and SongTapper does the rest. After tapping is complete you will see a list of matching songs. If we can't identify your song, you can teach our system by entering the song name.

SongTapper.com is fun, easy to use, and addresses a common annoyance. Users are not required to create an account or to provide any personal information in order to access any of the site’s functions, which may encourage casual visitors to give the program a try.

Will the program identify the correct song often enough to actually be useful or to keep users interested?