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well there are already a few apps such as musicaroid that searches Music and Video by using Yahoo Music(US) API, Google Youtube API, iTunes Store API. Than there are apps like Hound and Midomi where serach happens through voice & humming... and we can look forward to some great stuff when technologies like "Intelligent A.I. search' being developed by Ray Kurzweil at Google becomes a reality.

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Hound is just "voice search" for songs: but I'd rather type than speak.

I had never heard of Midomi; just went and tested it. It seems to try to do what I'm talking about, but the "matches" seem completely random.

It may be that doing this is much harder than it seems; but what I'm talking about is really not about a specific performance, but about melodies (parts of melodies as sequences of intervals).

And it should work just as a text search engine works (matching a query to entries in an index); no special AI required for a first version.

I agree, it looks like a hard problem to me too... esp. given the fact that so many of the songs have same scale and chord progressions

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