If you ever wanted to know what title goes with that tune that's been haunting you: rejoice! Now you can search our database, consisting of a couple of thousand of the world's catchiest tunes! All for free, no downloads or installs. We provide you with five search methods, at least one of which is quite unique: with the CTC Title Calculator you can play a couple of notes from the tune just using your mouse. Then, at the push of a button, there's the tune's name for you. And you don't have to be a Mozart either: just erase the notes you're not satisfied with and try again, and remember: it's just the melody that matters, so it's perfectly ok if you're timing is a little (or completely) off. The search methods are:
For options 1 to 3 all you need is a sequence of 8 notes. In order to assemble the sequence we recommend option 1, the Title Calculator, but suit yourself. See below for instructions.
Options 4 and 5 speak for themselves.
Search option 1: The CTC Title Calculator
The Title Calculator is a small keyboard on which you can play a short piece of the tune you're looking for by mouseclicking the keys. Then when you're all finished you can find the tune's title by clicking the search button. That's all there is to it! Okay, let's load that CTC Title Calculator!
Average load time (min:sec)
T1
ISDN
56.6
33.6
28.8
0:02
1:00
2:00
4:00
5:00
In order to use the CTC Title Calculator your browser needs to be Java 1.1 enabled, meaning Internet Explorer 4.01 / Netscape Navigator 4.06 or later releases will do, as well as earlier Navigators with the Netscape JDK 1.1 patch applied.
Search option 3: Browse the html riff list
It's not entirely impossible that one day you'll find our database offline. In that case there's only one option left: try and find the tune's title by means of a browser find, <CTRL> + F, of the full html riff list. Mind you: the riff list takes a while to load!
The search riff must be played in the key of C. (No database to do the hard labor for you here...)
In order to use this option you can still use the Title Calculator, but you'll have to copy/paste the search riff from the Title Calculator into your browser's find window. Or you can assemble the search riff manually (you fool), in which case you had better follow our free course:
Title Finder Notation In A Nutshell
A plus sign (+) after the note means it's a sharp, a minus sign (-) is a flat. We only use the most common sharps and flats, so these are the valid Title Finder notes: A B- B C C+ D E- E F F+ G A-. As long as your search riff fits in one scale (C - B) that's all there is to it.
If the full database riff (8 notes) didn't fit the scale we added an octave to our range by adding a 1 to the notes that were played an octave higher (A1, B1-, B1, etc.)
Example: to find Happy Birthday To You you should enter: GGAGC1BGG.
Congratulations! You're a full-blown Title Finder Notation Expert.
If you think you're the rightful owner to one of the sound or other files we nicked just let us know and you'll get your name across this page in neon lights or whatever it is you want us to do.
A special thank you to Mike Offenbecher for his assistance in solving a nasty bug in our Title Calculator applet.
