To The World: I have a couple of minutes of unknown music on a cassette, so how would I get it onto my pc so that I can let the world hear it and possibly identify it? Ta Muchly.

[woodelf]

[sara3]

can you record it on to your mobile phone, then upload it to your pc?

[Stephen_G]

http://www.iwantoneof...-convertor/index.html

Pricey, but any good, woodelf?

[woodelf]

Sorry Sara, I don't have a mobile and Judge, please could you re-send your link as a 'tinyurl'?...Thanks Both.

[TTG]

Connect tape player using standard "jack" plug connection lead to "line-in" on pc. Record using sound recorder.

[woodelf]

Sorry TTG and the rest of you helpful guys, but I'm a real techno-duffer, so I'll either have to forget about it or ask if someone could do it for me...what do ya think?

[society]

Hi Woodelf, JudgeNutmeg probably missed your post or hasn't come on since.
Here is the tinyurl - http://tinyurl.com/m2b8ym

[woodelf]

Many Thanks Society, I'll give the tinyurl a whirl...smile!

[Count-A-Strong]

Hi woodelf. Another way would be to find someone with an iPhone and the 'Shazzam' app. If you play the music and they run the app it may well identify it.

[LeMarchand]

"Hi woodelf. Another way would be to find someone with an iPhone and the 'Shazzam' app. If you play the music and they run the app it may well identify it. "

...or use any mobile phone to access Shazam, which has been going since 1999.

Sorry, Count, but it really hacks me off when people recommend the over-priced and over-hyped iPhone for a task that other/all phones have been capable of for years!

[joko]

theres phone num you can ring an play it down the line an it identifies it...not sure how or what num is though...a bit of searching online might help you find it though

[Count-A-Strong]

Whoa, steady on le merchand. I had no idea you could get the app for other phones. I was only trying to help woodelf. I think I paid 49p for mine. Hardly a fortune.

[LeMarchand]

Sorry, Count - was trying to make it clear I wasn't having a pop at you! It just annoys me that there are so many excellent phones that are capable of doing everything an iPhone can (and more!), but all you hear is "iPhone, iPhone, iPhone"...

...and don't get me started on the iPad!

[woodelf]

Hey!...steady on you guys!...no need for AB fisticuffs...smile...anyway, I aint got a mobile or I-phone and I'm not sure a totally blind person could use one either...unless someone knows different?...and they'd probably cost loads. Hey, Lemarchand, the only other Lemarchand I've heard of is or was the crime writer!...any relation or just an AB name?...smile.

[redcrx]

Hi Woodelf.
I dont know what your computer set up is capable of but you may be able to try song tapper http://www.bored.com/songtapper/ by clicking the space bar along to a tune it can often recognise songs.

[woodelf]

Blimey!...is this song tapper thingy for real, Red?...I'll give it a go though - and I wonder why your link wasn't compressed?...shorter than the others I guess.

[flobadob]

I've got a Sony Ericsson W995 mobile phone and there is a thing on it were you play music and hold the phone up to it and it identifies the song. I've never used it but I'm sure its on other phones as well. Ask around people you know with mobiles and that may work.

[flobadob]

redcrx, that link is brilliant fun.

[LeMarchand]

Sorry, woodelf, no relation - it's my nom de plume on various platforms and comes from "Hellraiser" (LeMarchand created the puzzle box).

Re your original question, if you have a microphone on your machine try going to http://www.midomi.com/ there is a "Click and sing or hum" button centre top. Click it and play your tune. Just tested and it correctly identified John Foxx's "Twilight's Last Gleaming", Abney Park's "The Wrong Side" and Placebo' cover of "Running Up That Hill", but not The Leather Nun's cover of "Gimme Gimme Gimme (A Man After Midnight)". Was no good for soundtrack selections, though. If still no joy, a "quick and dirty" way to get a digital copy would be to record the track with your microphone and upload it.

Otherwise, anyone with a mobile can dial 2580 and hold the mobile near the speaker of your tape player for around 30 seconds. They will be charged for the call (around 12p or so?) and if the service thinks it knows the track, it will send a text that costs 50p with what it thinks the track is.