Have you come across Shazam? Incredible...

[ska invita]

Have you come across Shazam?

Cant be arsed to explain it fully - read this:
http://www.shazam.com/music/portal/...default/template/pages/p/what_is_tagging.html

Basically it will identify any tune, played from any point within the track. Just stick your mobile by the speaker for a few seconds and it names it.

Ive tried out some obscure tracks and its always got them - really usefull thing to know about if your an anorack!

 

[rocketman]

Have you come across Shazam?

Cant be arsed to explain it fully - read this:
http://www.shazam.com/music/portal/...default/template/pages/p/what_is_tagging.html

Basically it will identify any tune, played from any point within the track. Just stick your mobile by the speaker for a few seconds and it names it.

Ive tried out some obscure tracks and its always got them - really usefull thing to know about if your an anorack!

Yeah, I've used it before, it's highly effective and works well 80 per cent of the time - great way to suss a track you hear when you are out.

 

[ska invita]

Yeah, I've used it before, it's highly effective and works well 80 per cent of the time - great way to suss a track you hear when you are out.

probably not that great for dubplates! But i think if its out on CD they can get it

 

[futha]

yeah its class isnt it. so useful. really fast too.

 

[futha]

i found 'de'lacy - hideaway' on it from the radio and was well chuffed

 

[ddraig]

yeh, they used to have a 'shit' pink rig

 

[ska invita]

Ten years later Ive now got it running on a phone..use it a lot

Anyhow, i'm starting to get a bit suspiscious about some of their IDs. When they cant ID a tune, I think people are payign them to suggest shit tunes that sound nothing like the tune you are IDing. For example one suggestion was this
Shazam

It happened to have a link on SHazams own page which suggests its been Shazamed 68,000 times.
I doubt that very much. Unless Shazam have forced it as a result.

Conspiracy theory ends here.

 

[Jon-of-arc]

Google has something that does this as a widget, if you're on android. Don't know how well it compares, and it will take you straight to a link to buy the song, but it does work pretty well from the experimental testing I've done.

 

[pesh]

Soundhound is good as well and picks up some of the more underground stuff Shazam misses

 

[Fez909]

Shazam is brilliant still IMO. Gets some really obscure disco stuff, and can even tell the difference between edits and originals!

 

[bi0boy]

When I'm in the car and something comes on the radio I just shout at my phone and it tells me what track it is.

 

[editor]

I was a big Soundhound user but Shazam seems a lot faster.

 

[ska invita]

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Shazamers, are you finding it's not as good of late? I don't know if it's I'm listening to more hard to id stuff or is really struggling

 

[kittyP]

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Shazamers, are you finding it's not as good of late? I don't know if it's I'm listening to more hard to id stuff or is really struggling

I think it's been getting gradually shitter for a long time.
It used to be brilliant and getting pretty much everything, including really obscure stuff, stuff from TV and films etc but now it struggle often.

It might have been since it was bought by Spotify but I'm not sure.

 

[xenon]

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Shazamers, are you finding it's not as good of late? I don't know if it's I'm listening to more hard to id stuff or is really struggling

Just interested. What were you using it on in 2007? It is built into iPhones now of course as Apple bought them.

 

[kittyP]

Just interested. What were you using it on in 2007? It is built into iPhones now of course as Apple bought them.

Shazam definitely existed pre smart phone.
I remember phoning a number on an old Nokia brick, holding it up to listen to the song and they would text back the answer,
I wan to say that was the late 90's.

 

[ska invita]

Just interested. What were you using it on in 2007? It is built into iPhones now of course as Apple bought them.

Pffff....I have no idea .... Dont think I had a smart phone in 2007, I'm a late adopter, must've been desktop app?

 

[xenon]

Wow ha I never knew it worked like that back then. I did get my first smartphone in 2005. Nokia and 70. I think. It did have apps but not many.

 

[20Bees]

Shazam definitely existed pre smart phone.
I remember phoning a number on an old Nokia brick, holding it up to listen to the song and they would text back the answer,
I wan to say that was the late 90's.

2580 was the number. Brilliant at the time!
ETS definitely early 2000s, it’s still on my contacts on the Sony Ericsson I got in 2003.

 

[keybored]

Shazam definitely existed pre smart phone.
I remember phoning a number on an old Nokia brick, holding it up to listen to the song and they would text back the answer,
I wan to say that was the late 90's.

2580?

Oops, beaten to it.

 

[ska invita]

Ah yes 2580! Vaguely remember that!!

 

[Fez909]

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Shazamers, are you finding it's not as good of late? I don't know if it's I'm listening to more hard to id stuff or is really struggling

It's properly shit now. Seems like it went shit when Apple bought it. Could just be a coincidence, but...

 

[ska invita]

I might give sound hound another try then, if it still exists

Fuck I hate apple so much

 

[Fez909]

It's properly shit now. Seems like it went shit when Apple bought it. Could just be a coincidence, but...

A recent example



I'm sure anyone who knows my music taste knows I wouldn't be Shazaming Fragma. It sounded absolutely nothing like it.

When it gets it wrong, it's always, without fail, some trance/EDM garbage it suggests.

 

[PursuedByBears]

The Google/Android version called Now Playing works just fine.

 

[kalidarkone]

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Shazamers, are you finding it's not as good of late? I don't know if it's I'm listening to more hard to id stuff or is really struggling

it's about 75% successful for me. But I do listen to more obscure stuff.

 

[ska invita]

the trance result thing has been going on for ages -as i posted upthread in 2017 i wonder if its paid for

but im just getting blank after blank after blank at the moment

 

[ddraig]

It does seem to be missing more recently

 

[Griff]

I do wonder if the technology kind of seeps into your phone and into other apps.

Was in a pub near Liverpool Street a couple of years back and was talking to Mrs.Griff about Richer Sounds still being round the corner as 'I wanted to buy a gramophone' and went on to explain the Not the Nine O'Clock News sketch together with who was in it etc. as I got a blank look about it.

A few minutes later something jogged my mind about something which meant looking something up on Youtube (can't remember what it was) and directly under the item I was looking for was the Not he Nine O'Clock News gramophone sketch.

Spooky? Conincidence?

Thinking about it and thinkng about the technology in Shazam, it would have been very easy for my phone to find that particular sketch given all the information it had heard as I was explaining the sketch.

These little coincidences happen a lot these days when it comes to advertising etc. that it just seems natural, but I do wonder how much more of it goes on that we're unaware of /tinfoilhat.

 

[Steel Icarus]

I imagine it's less the tech - music is just intervals and tempo basically - but that the database is enormous compared to when Shazam started.

I might be talking through my hole, though