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Old 31-12-2004, 19:25
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This has been around for a long time, but I've only recently been seeing adverts for it. If you don't know, it's a mobile phone service that purports to be able to name that tune if you hold your mobile to a music source and play a max. of 30 secs of the track down your phone. Then, once it knows, it texts you the title and artist.
Has anyone found this to actually work? I have visions of hodling up my mobile and playing the track and getting a text back saying 'Sorry, I couldn't quite hear it. Please try again', and so on for a few attempts, then getting a final one that says 'Sorry, unable to name this one. Please try again with a different track'.
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Old 31-12-2004, 19:33
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I use it LOADS - it's never been wrong.
Even on really obscure stuff, like white label tracks played on Radio 1's Essential Selection.
There's been a few it hasn't been able to 'tag' - but at least it doesn't charge you.
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Old 01-01-2005, 15:24
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it never works for me. only finds the popular tracks
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Old 01-01-2005, 17:43
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It's usually quite accurate, it'll only tell you what the song is if it's sure.

It's so far only failed me once, when I tried to tag the music in the background of one of Neil Buchanan's Big Art Attacks ( ).
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Old 01-01-2005, 19:51
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I did it once but it got it wrong.
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Old 01-01-2005, 20:34
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Shazam is the best. NEVER ever failed me yet.

(Also, if you have less than 50p credit on your phone you can still use it with out paying!!) - You wont recieve a text back but you can look it up on the website! )
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Old 02-01-2005, 10:52
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It's had a 50% success rate with me, but you don't get charged for failed attempts! Mind you, the "failures" have usually been on movie trailers, which have a lot of extraneous dialogue/sound effects on them.
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Old 02-01-2005, 16:00
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It's very good - the only requirement is that the music comes from a digital source - it won't be able to find old tracks on 1920s vinyl or anything like that! I found loads of tracks with it when it was first out (year(s) ago), although now I'm on virgin mobile so I can't use it anymore
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Old 02-01-2005, 16:14
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Originally Posted by damndirtyape
It's very good - the only requirement is that the music comes from a digital source - it won't be able to find old tracks on 1920s vinyl or anything like that! I found loads of tracks with it when it was first out (year(s) ago), although now I'm on virgin mobile so I can't use it anymore
You should be able to, it lists Virgin on the price list:
http://www.shazam.com/uk/do/help_costs
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