Midomi has revolutionized the way people search for music over internet. Just sing, hum or play music using any instrument into your computers microphone and get search results instantly. This is all possible because midomi will analyze the song you sing and matches it with others in its data base. If you do not know the name of song you are currently listening, no problems leave the task to midomi. It is also a social networking site for music lovers and singers. Midomi is constantly growing its music data base by user’s contributions and recordings. It is real fun searching music on Midomi there is also traditional keyboard search just in case.

Things you need to use midomi

You need not have to register with the site in order to search for music files or related music by singing or just by typing. But registration with midomi is free and gives you some extra features to work on. If you are a good singer then you can become midomi star easily by recording songs and contributing them to midomi.

To use the service of midomi you need to have computer with internet connection, a microphone, and web browser with Macromedia Flash plug-in. If you have all of these then you are ready to go and explore the world of music on midomi.

Midomi uses MARS (multimodal Adaptive Recognition System) technology to match multiple features of human voice to human voice without any manual indexing. So by using this software midomi will search for the lines or bars that you sing and match it with other songs in its data base.

Midomi Features

Once you are ready with your web browser and microphone click on the search box and start humming, singing or whistling. When you are done singing the lines you know click it again to stop and midomi will analyze and bring related search results. Accuracy of midomi various by the way you sing, the longer you sing the better will be the results.

Within the search results you can click on the title to play the track or find videos on YouTube, view album, play all the recording by the user or buy the song on web. Remember midomi is a user powered site so all the songs and recordings are contributions of users. So it is legal to listen and download songs from this site.

When you have created an account with midomi you can see studio option at the top of the site. This is where users can sing and record their performance on midomi. All the recordings can help others find similar songs or others can listen and enjoy the music. This is where the new dimension of social networking of midomi comes into picture. Unlike other music networking sites, in midomi users can actually appreciate others talent by rating and also commenting. If you manage to gain higher ratings then you can become a midomi star.

Check out present midomi starts under midomi stars tab where you can see user’s with top ratings and listen to their popular recordings. Under hot artist section you can see artists who are most active on midomi (chances your favorite artist may be in this listing) and popular fan clubs of midomi.

Listening to recording of others is the funniest part of midomi. If you are in a serious mood or want a big laugh on your face then go on and listen to recording of other users. The ways people sing and will instantly bring up a simile or big laugh.

iPhone application

There is also midomi application for iPhone which you can download for free from iTunes store. By using this application you can easily search for song or get the name and other details of the song just by singing or recording the sound by placing your phone near to the source. Midomi is receiving new users daily and it is estimated that about 1000 t0 3000 songs are added to its data base daily.