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- Biker803, on 10/12/2007, -1/+25I take lines from songs I hear and append "lyrics" to the end of it in my Google searches. It doesn't have to include the song name or even the artist.
- Ludwig, on 10/12/2007, -0/+23Lyco,
It says if they can't identify it you don't get charged. It mentions nothing about identifying it incorrectly. RTFC, D. - rye425, on 10/12/2007, -1/+22Here i've got an option. If you call me I will identify your song for only .98 cents instead of .99. I know you just have to ask, how do you make these deals Ryan. Well i'm a giving person and I want to help you, so give me a call.
- michaelstone, on 10/12/2007, -3/+21How would you google song name and band name, if the point of this service is to find those to things?
- Lumiras, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16$1 a song is really, really, really steep if you ask me
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17Cell phone companies are the worst crooks, and you morons actually pay for this *****. 10 Cent text messages, 99 cent song ID's, 10 cents for a lowsy killobit of data, 1.00 for ringtones, 2.00 for games? WTF!?! These things should be included. I don't understand the motivation of people paying for these services. I can see the execs sitting in the board room talking amongst themselves, "how can we charge these morons for more services, we probably should already be providing"...."I know lets charge them 10 cents to recieve calls from other people networks, yeah!"....
- Mental64, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15Do a google for "tunatic", free software that does this. It's neat, I have no use for it, but it's neat.
- awfulshot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13$1 per song... if anyone has tried.. does this work with a lot of obscure music or just the stuff on the radio?
- ender52, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Unless you listen to music with no vocals.
- prockcore, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12That assumes the song you hear has lyrics.
A lot of cool songs used in commercials (that I would like to know the name of) don't have lyrics. - LycoLoco, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12*Some restrictions may apply. Songs downloaded from iTunes Music Store may only be played on FairPlay capable devices and may only be burned to 7 discs. See store for details.
- Runik, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Much Music and Bell Canada had the same feature a few years ago
- dstart, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11What if it identifies it wrong? Do you still get charged?
- Nodren, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6@spyyder
that's captialism for you. if only a cell phone company exec has the bright idea to out compete everyone else by not ripping us off for most of this stuff. - MikieEars, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I'm gonna try playing some old Jazz and also some old school hardcore music. I just don't wanna end up paying if it starts finding all the songs. I tried it on like 3 popular early 90's songs and it worked, and was fast to return my results. I'm just wondering if there will be a falw with mistaking titles of songs for another song, and such. The cingular website doesn't really explain to much about the types of music
- ThisGeek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6We've had something like this in the UK for a while, noone i know uses or even knows about it though.
It recognised 'Daydream in Blue' by I Monster for me, which is not in any way obscure enough a test of this kind of service.
I can never find out how exactly this kind of technology works though, is the wave form of the sound compared to that of every song in existance? - tsupersonic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Google part of the lyrics.
- kefs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Agreed Lumiras! Thank digg for the block/report button.
- fahrvergnuugen, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6LycoLoco - stop spreading FUD.
You can burn songs from iTunes on as many discs as you want. You're only allowed to burn the same playlist 7 times. How many times have you had to legitimately burn the same play list more than 7 times?? - snugsoho, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5That would be Shazam... http://www.shazam.com
- kuzkos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I was about to say that too, the UK has had a service like this for years (forget it's name)... It was fun for a few weeks but quickly went
- awa1ct, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4virgin mobile has had this feature for quite a long time.
if they cant ident the song, the next time its free - kweber103, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Ya i used something like this on my VZW phone. now i just use Tunatic. i would record a voice memo on my cellphone of the song and then when i get home i play it back to the computer
- pintong, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3And on iTunes, you actually get to *own* the song for that same dollar!
- reiggin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Verizon phones have had this for almost a year, if not longer. I did it with my wife's LG VX8100 after she got it last June. With it, though, it was a downloaded app that did it. $1/song ID was the case with it as well. Used it once. Worked like a charm.
If I had known this was so special, I would have submitted it to digg back then. :) - NanoStuff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I'd bet my phone that the only text message they would send me would say "Sorry, I don't know any of the crazy ***** you listen to"
- brilliantshadow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Seems to me this would be great for hearing something on the car radio that you are going to forget in like a couple hours anyway (and I'm really bad at remember lyrics, assuming there are any), but this would sort of cement it for me. I could see using this totally... well assuming they played stuff on the radio I would want to know about anway.
- skytimelapse, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Not if you ask me. If you really appreciate good music a dollar a good song is a steal. A good song is worth more than money.
- tomi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Fido's had this for a while now...
- geekee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2If they combined it with a download service so you could buy the song immediately, and charged a reasonable rate, that would be a good service.
- spacebar14, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Rogers Wireless has had this for ages here in Canada.
- hyperpasta, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2My carrier (Virgin Mobile, hehehe) has been doing this for years and years. In fact, it uses the same KEY COMBINATION, so this is either the same service branded differently or a total ripoff.
- nullmind, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I've heard that these services store a very low resolution (crappy quality) of a ton of songs. When you call the service it converts your clip into a crappy quality and compares it against known songs (possibly with a heurisitic hashing function) to narrow the search.
- Brak710101, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2lol, they probably just made a java app that interfaces with Tuneiac or somehting,.
- Lumiras, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Tunatic is simply awesome. I just downloaded it and have been playing around with it and my iTunes library. It picks it up about 90% of the time, and it even knows if the song is a live version or not. Why pay $1 when Tunatic is free?
http://www.wildbits.com/tunatic/ - LycoLoco, on 10/12/2007, -10/+12No, you won't. Please RTFA.
- drakethegreat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Ya googling lyrics is way more economical and for me its worked 100% of the times I've tried. So why should people give more of their money to greedy telecom companies?
- nlatimer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'm waiting for the phone that can read my thoughts and let me remember the name of that song I liked from 1994.
- deaxes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Been avail to Verizon for a while, at least 2 yrs now. As I remember it, the Get-It-Now version is made by Sony. Expensive as hell, but still.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5i saw commercials or this like 2 years ago
OLD NEWS - xtremesniper, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yeah Rogers has been doing this for at least a year now. I don't have the service, nor do I ever plan on having it, but I guess it's about time the Americans got it as well.
- LycoLoco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Now, see, THAT makes sense. I was thinking, yeah, the tunatic idea is great, but how's it useful if you're playing something from your computer, but with your remark I understand how it's helpful.
- evilspoons, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Rogers in Canada has done this for a year or more... and I still haven't found a time where the retarded fee is worth it.
- JamesWilson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2http://www.411song.com/
- Valence, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Wow. I worked on a proof-of-concept application site six years ago which interfaced with radio station playlists and sent the text messages back when this concept was proprietary to a company called Qvergent. I still have the Perl code I wrote for it. Fun. I'm not sure how this is working in this particular instance, but all that was necessary when I worked on it was for a participating radio station to embed an inaudible station identification in the audio signal (accuracy could be tricky). The phone would be held up to the speaker, pick up the station id, and then cross reference the time of day with a service which tracks radio station playlists and, voila, one song title and artist could then be emailed fresh.
The obvious application for this sort of thing is to also get enough participants involved so that you can use it for contests, advertising offers, whatever, and then you've got, hey, interactive radio. I always wondered what became of them, and I was never aware of the other services other posters are listing here which have offered this or a similar service. Cool. - donatj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Odd, it actually worked for me on T-Mobile
- nsummy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2004/Apr/1031797.htm
ATT Wireless introduced this in 2004. So this is very old news, since ATT Wireless is now cingular - vertex, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1True that :) I love Virgin Mobile.
- Dan005, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Had this for ages in Canada on Rogers/Fido. #DJ it works amazingly well. Sometimes the album and artist is mixed up though.
- tomi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yeah, same with Fido; #DJ.
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