I had a piece of a song that I had been looking for for an extremely long time. To make it harder, it was a piece of jazz that came out circa 1980. I had recorded this from a jazz show when I was in college, and the song was cut off by the end of the tape.

Over the years, I have consulted jazz efficianados, jazz DJs, and jazz musicians, and no one was able to identify it.

Then, last night, a coworker whips out his iPhone, and fires up an app called Midomi. You can take your microphone-enabled device and play (or sing or hum) the tune into it, and Midomi does some algorithm magic and does its best to identify the song. Its like google for audio clips. He identified this song in about 1 minute.

My first thought was "my N810 has a microphone, speakers and can play back mp3 and ogg. Why don't we have an app like this???"

The app ties in to the midomi.com website. Anyone up for writing an app to interface our devices to the midomi search engine?

--vr