WatZatSong? (”What’s that song?” in proper English) is a community website that allows you to:
1) name a song that you have stuck in your head but of which you know neither the artist nor the title
2) name the other members songs and thus climb up the ranking up!

More generally, WatZatSong is a music discovery and sharing website based on helping each other.

To post a request to find a song, click on « Search » at the top of the page.

Enter all that you know about the song (for example the language in which it is sung or the music style). You can also add some comments to simplify the guessers’ job.

Click on « Record yourself » below: the recording device will pop up, and after that you only have to click on “record” (the red circle) and start humming! The recording cannot be longer than 30 seconds. You can redo the recording as many times as you want and listen to it by clicking on the green « play » button. To confirm, click on « validate » (the yellow «v»). All done!

If you already have a sample of the song in a file or that you have already recorded yourself with your favourite audio software, click on “Upload a file” and select the file to send.

You can also read Jemima Kiss’ interview with WatZatSong co-founder Raphael Arbuz here.
Raphael adds, WatZatSong’s success rates are: 89% of the requests are solved, and 45% of them within 5 minutes thanks to a community of music geeks. Theses stats have resulted from more than 30,000 requests posted since we launched in June 2006. The English version has only been opened since May 2007.

Also, an important point is that the next big thing for us is to be mobile: you can already post your request from your phone in France but it will very soon be possible from many other countries as well.

I was also very pleased to discover a blog like yours <AltSearchEngines>, talking about alternative search engines and methods. I truly believe that search is probably one of the most exciting things about the Net and that there are still loads of things to invent in this domain. I’ll follow your ASE RSS feed closely. -Raphaël

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