09-10-2015, 08:24 AM
How can you this not have already been included:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD-E-LDc384
As cocky teenagers, my brother and I challenged my dad to a music recognition dual. We pulled CDs from each of our separate collections (ours mostly indy rock, pop, classic rock and his classical) and we would randomly select a track. We then timed how quickly the listener could guess the artist, album and song. True, we beat him from a quantitative standpoint, but we were stunned at how quickly he could identify what sounded to us like fairly nondescript notes in some instances. And his collection was several hundred CDs in size while ours was probably ~100. And for added difficult he would recollect who was the conductor and what orchestra, especially hard when he would have multiple recordings of the same symphony. If I recall correctly, we averaged ~5 seconds to name the tune and he took ~10 seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD-E-LDc384
As cocky teenagers, my brother and I challenged my dad to a music recognition dual. We pulled CDs from each of our separate collections (ours mostly indy rock, pop, classic rock and his classical) and we would randomly select a track. We then timed how quickly the listener could guess the artist, album and song. True, we beat him from a quantitative standpoint, but we were stunned at how quickly he could identify what sounded to us like fairly nondescript notes in some instances. And his collection was several hundred CDs in size while ours was probably ~100. And for added difficult he would recollect who was the conductor and what orchestra, especially hard when he would have multiple recordings of the same symphony. If I recall correctly, we averaged ~5 seconds to name the tune and he took ~10 seconds.