Revisiting Primezero Piano and Possibility of Piano-Based Music Melody Search Engine

January 4, 2008 – 12:19 am

The following is an excerpt from my developer’s notebook, so it will appear to be an incomplete thought.

Developer’s Notes:

  1. Primezero Piano was a fun Flash project, when Flash was generally considered eye candy. I want to revisit this project and possibly apply the Primezero Piano to search functionality.
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  2. I recently started playing with Apple’s iLife GarageBand and found a keyboard integrated into the program which is actually very spiffy. This allows you to play various instruments, which is one of the features I wanted to add to Primezero Piano in the next version. However…garagebandpiano.png
  3. Creating a search engine where I find songs based on melodies played would be very handy. So, I have been playing around with some code to get that working …

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  1. One Response to “Revisiting Primezero Piano and Possibility of Piano-Based Music Melody Search Engine”

  2. AltSearchEngines.com covers more alternative search engines than any other blog in the Blogosphere. A member of the Read/WriteWeb network.

    I would love to hear more about your ‘Piano Search Engine’ if/when you are ready to send us a post.

    Thanks!

    Charles Knight, Sr Editor

    By Charles Knight on Jan 5, 2008

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