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Re:Songtapper - Tap spacebar to tune: It knows song by edw519 on Monday February 25, 2008 @02:30PM (#123261)
It got Happy Birthday and the Star Spangled Banner.

Couldn't get InaGaddaDaVida.

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Re:Songtapper - Tap spacebar to tune: It knows song by mechanical_fish on Monday February 25, 2008 @05:44PM (#123420)
Aha, it's the Eliza trick: if you can look smart for the first fifteen seconds, many people will conclude that you're smart.

One wonders what percentage of people pick one of those two songs to try first. (I'm guessing that several other popular choices, like, say, "America, the Beautiful" and "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star", are also pretty easy for the program to pick out.)

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Re:Songtapper - Tap spacebar to tune: It knows song by mhb on Monday February 25, 2008 @08:46PM (#123538)
Apparently not "Row, row, row your boat" though.
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