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[littlechild]

We had a day-after-Thanksgiving get-together at my aunt's house today. (Various people on a large internet forum I frequent have talked about dreading Thanksgiving because of their insane families, or else they've broken off into their own, separate Thanksgiving celebrations to avoid it altogether. And here I am, seeing my extended family two

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[huzlinefan]

I saw the commercial for that iPhone application and wondered just how extensive the catalog is. I assume the catalog is based only on songs available on iTunes. Still a very awesome idea, and I was impressed to learn that it could recognize a cover version! It makes me wonder a lot of little questions, like "Would it be able to identify a spoken-word comedy track?", "If one of the many versions of an often-covered song (let's say Yesterday, for example) was played, would it identify the specific version or just identify it as The Beatles?" or "Would it be able to tell the difference between the Nickelback songs that sound the same?" etc.

Similarly, I have Guitar Hero: World Tour, which has a karaoke-style gameplay mode, and I indeed to test to see whether or not a song can be passed by playing a taped recording of a well-vocalized rendition of the song in front of the microphone. What do you think?

[littlechild]

I didn't actually check my aunt's phone to see, but I assume the album it returned was the live one, and not the studio album from the previous year (whose rendition of "Like Spinning Plates" is completely different). And the facts are, I played the only instrument that's in the song at that point, and the piano part is fairly simple. My cover version was pretty close to the original, with mine only lacking a fully tuned piano and crowd noise. And don't forget that it didn't recognize a harp song that was played on a piano. So I imagine that it would recognize a cover of a song as the cover, rather than the original, due to the differences in orchestration and whatever else

[huzlinefan]

Huh! I wouldn't have expected that trick (holding the GH mic to the same speaker playing the song, that is) would work - I always just figured the other instrumentation tracks of the song would interfere somehow.

And now I have to mention how jealous I am if most of the games you get to test out are as fun as Guitar Hero!