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If you can you sing it or whistle it, or piece it together on a virtual piano, or even tap it’s rhythm on your PC keyboard, then there is a chance you might find out where that song comes from with a little help from The Open Music Encyclopedia.
Musipedia has been under constant development since it was first started by Dutchman Rainer Typke ten years ago. What began life as a music search engine called Melody Hound has since turned into a Wikipedia-like collaboration site, building an expandable and editable collection of tunes, melodies, and musical themes. The option of searching for MIDI files anywhere on the Net was added last year. Plugins are available for Firefox, Explorer and Konqueror (for the ‘whistle & sing it’ option you need the Java plugin).

I really enjoy coming across independent websites like this one. It’s nothing flashy, it’s just a good idea put into place by someone hacking away at it. The step taken in 2004 to open it up to a wiki-type collaboration was the right one to take I think. Well done Rainer Typke, currently at Utrecht University working on his Ph. D. in Computer Science.