Amazing yet really useful mobile service!

[slycat]

In my weekly b3ta newsletter, they mentioned a service run by www.shazam.com claiming that you can play music to them and they'll text you with the name of the track you were listening to. I couldn't see how it could work and so I decided to give it a go by playing Blur - Song 2 to it. Sure enough, within seconds of playing the music down my mobile phone, I got texted back saying that the track was Blur - Song 2. I was quite amazed and impressed at this so I went to show my brother who was watching a Back to the Future DVD featurette thingy. I put the phone up to the speaker while the documentary was blabbing away with the music in the background and promptly got texted back with Huey Lewis and the News - Back in Time! Simply amazing! I didn't expect it to get it cos it was only a short clip or music (less than the 15 seconds) and had talking over it yet it still got it!

I can see this being really useful cos I can always be watching something or out someplace and wonder what the music playing is but no-one would know. Now I can find out - fantastic. Also, they log all of the music on a web site so you can buy it later (Or search for the MP3 of it ;). It costs 50p a time but this time I think the price is justified considering what it does.

(Note: Only works in the UK ;)

No this is not an advert for them and I don't work for them or anything, I'm just dead impressed!

Comments

[tktiger.livejournal.com]

Had then been able to tell me it was "Elton John" singing Can You Feel The Love Tonight and not Tim Rice, I would have been impressed. Next they'll be telling me that Rod Temperton sang Thriller and not Michael Jackson.

[slycat.livejournal.com]

Why don't you email them to tell them. I mean it was your 50p you got to be told the wrong artist :P (But then, if you knew, why would you want to find out? ;)

[tktiger.livejournal.com]

I wanted to put it through it's paces. It found Can You Feel The Love Tonight (a nice easy one) but got the artist wrong. So I attacked it with Dam Dariram by Joga and oddly enough the song wasn't in the database! So I mailed them about it, so maybe one day you can be in Sega Park and be able to get artist and song name for the DDR song being played! (if you didn't already know it or missed the title screen at the start!)

[slycat.livejournal.com]

Hmm.. I'd only really expect them to have recorded music from CDs you can buy in the UK meaning DDR songs will most likely not show. Still handy none the less.