Shazam!!

[Chicago Jake]

Anyone here use "Shazam"? I just loaded it onto my smartphone, and it is quite amazing.

It's a simple little program (runs on iPhone, Android, Blackberry, etc.) that you point at a music source (radio, stereo, whatever) and it listens. It takes about ten seconds, then tells you the song, artist, album, all that good stuff. And of course it provides you with a link to buy it on the spot, if you like.

I tried to fool it with a Weird Al song, "Craigslist," which is a perfect parody of The Doors' "Soul Kitchen," and even starts with a pretty much identical opening. But Shazam was not fooled. (Come to think of it, the programmers of Shazam might be too young to have heard of The Doors in the first place!) It knew a bunch of obscure ELO songs and old Ella Fitzgerald and everything else I threw at it.

Anyone else having fun with this?......Jake

P.S. - and it's free! The best kind of Capitalism.


UPDATE! I couldn't get it to identify "Take Five" from Gordon's link on the other thread. Maybe because it was a live version?

[DT]

Where youse been Jake? Shazam has almost forty million users and fifteen million new users in the last six months.

psssst..... A must for all music lovers.

[Chicago Jake]

Well, I never heard of it until recently, and haven't heard it discussed here. I wish someone would have posted and clued me in!

[Exildo Wonsetler Briggs III]

I didn't know it worked on Blackberry's. I thought it was just for Iphones.

HHhhmmmmm...........

[Chicago Jake]

iPhones. Feh. Piece of shit.

[DT]

I brought a Blackberry last July and loaded Shazam in November.

P.S. - and it's free! The best kind of Capitalism.

UPDATE! I couldn't get it to identify "Take Five" from Gordon's link on the other thread. Maybe because it was a live version?

Jake, spend a couple of bucks and get the upgrade. You will be glad you did.

[Chicago Jake]

DT, I'm NEVER glad when I spend my money. But thanks for the tip.