Editing 1192: Humming

{{comic
| number    = 1192
| date      = March 29, 2013
| title     = Humming
| image     = humming.png
| titletext = I'm so bad at carrying a tune, those 'find a song by humming its melody' websites throw an HTTP 406 error as soon as I start to hum.
}}

==Explanation==
Services like {{w|MusicBrainz}} and {{w|SoundHound}} can detect a recorded song's {{w|acoustic fingerprint}} and match it with an existing song. This lets them identify the title and artist of an unnamed recorded musical extract. In this comic, [[Megan]] hacks the acoustic fingerprint database to add her own entry with a message to [[Cueball]], in which she asks him to buy [[1022|cat food]].

Megan would use this app again in [[1199: Silence]].

HTTP error code 406 means Not Acceptable. When a client requests data from a server, the client lists the data formats that it can accept. If a server is unable to provide data in any format that the client accepts, the server returns error 406 Not Acceptable. For example, this can occur if a client requests XML but the server supports only JSON. In the title text, the standard meaning of the error message is ignored and the text "Not Acceptable" is taken literally: The server is offended by [[Randall]]'s humming.

==Transcript==
:[Megan is humming a tune.]
:Cueball: Hey.
:Cueball: What's that?
:[Megan is still humming the same tune.]
:Cueball: What are you humming?
:Cueball: Should I know the tune?
:Cueball: ...Hmm...
:[Cueball gets out his phone and opens up a music recognition program.]
:Phone: Identify song
:Phone: Recorded
:Phone: > Live [beta]
:Phone: Identifying...
:[A zoom in on the phone screen. An album cover with a picture of Megan on it.]
:Positive match:
:''Check it out!''
:By I hacked the audio fingerprint database
:Feat. MEEEEEE
:Track: We're out of cat food (pick some up?)

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