If anything, I’m probably too well read when it comes to what’s happening on the Internet. I like to keep my finger on the pulse, what can I say. That said, it’s nice to be caught be surprise from time to time with something totally amazing and unexpected.
I was enjoying the iPhone 2.0 update and iTunes App Store (sidebar: good stuff… this is going to be huge) over the weekend when I stumbled on an app called Shazam.
If you’re reading this, stop what you’re doing and visit the Shazam site, or pick up the Shazam iPhone App (free for a limited time). Stand back and prepare to be amazed.
The next time you hear a great song when you’re out and about, open Shazam, click the ‘Tag Now’ button, and in about 15 seconds Shazam will tell you everything you wanted to know about the song. It will even save it in your tag list so you can pick it up on iTunes or read more about it later. Technically, the service works by recording a short clip of the song, uploading it to Shazam, matching the acoustics to a massive database, and returning the results to you. Because it works so fast and so well however, I prefer to just simply assume there’s some voodoo going on behind the scenes. Yes it’s that freakishly good.
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Shazam’s Voodoo Magic
July 13, 2008 by djd
If anything, I’m probably too well read when it comes to what’s happening on the Internet. I like to keep my finger on the pulse, what can I say. That said, it’s nice to be caught be surprise from time to time with something totally amazing and unexpected.
I was enjoying the iPhone 2.0 update and iTunes App Store (sidebar: good stuff… this is going to be huge) over the weekend when I stumbled on an app called Shazam.
If you’re reading this, stop what you’re doing and visit the Shazam site, or pick up the Shazam iPhone App (free for a limited time). Stand back and prepare to be amazed.
The next time you hear a great song when you’re out and about, open Shazam, click the ‘Tag Now’ button, and in about 15 seconds Shazam will tell you everything you wanted to know about the song. It will even save it in your tag list so you can pick it up on iTunes or read more about it later. Technically, the service works by recording a short clip of the song, uploading it to Shazam, matching the acoustics to a massive database, and returning the results to you. Because it works so fast and so well however, I prefer to just simply assume there’s some voodoo going on behind the scenes. Yes it’s that freakishly good.
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