» posted on 3:55am - November 20 2008 | posted by Lev www.shazam.com
My mom recently referred me to this awesome piece of software. I've only been using it for fun and to test how accurate it is, but the concept is extremely creative, and tries to solve a situation all of us have been in.
The scenario: you hear a song on the radio you like (okay, just pretend with me for a second), and you want to know the name of it but they play a bunch of songs back to back and never say what it was called.
Shazam to the rescue!
Now I only have used this software on the iPhone, so my experience is going to be based around that.
Hold your iPhone near your radio and let Shazam do its thing for a few seconds. Less than a minute later, it will tell you what song you are listening to!
It's incredibly accurate and has only failed a few times out of more than 50 different experiments. Oh, and I should mention, I have taste in some unusual or unpopular groups, so the fact that it was able to identify these was amazing.
Here's a list of all the songs I was able to identify when doing some tests (please don't laugh at the fact that I actually have some of these on my computer):
Fresh prince of bel air theme song sex pistols - revolution in the class room social distortion - prison bound the unseen - social security ramones - journey to the center of the mind raised fist - stand up and fight propagandhi - war is peace propagandhi - haillie sellasse, up your ass pennywise - wouldn't it be nice the misfits - astro zombies gg allin - bit it you scum dead kennedys - holiday in cambodia bad religion - sensory overload against all authority - ska sucks afi - a single second absurd minds - brainwash cher & beavis and butthead - i got you babe inner circle - bad boys nofx - herojuana walter carlos - a clockwork orange theme beethoven - 9th symphony, second movement dropkick murpheys - get up shadowy men on a shadowy planet - having an average weekend powerman 5000 - operate annihilate adam sandler - the chanukah song monty python - every sperm is sacred vadals - people that are going to hell refused - liberation frequency bob marley - african herbsman beatles - where my guitar gently weeps beatles - magical mystery tour jimmy cliff - use what i got ub40 - red red wine steve kekana - raising my family inner circle - sweat peter tosh - johnny b goode ziggy marley - look who's dancing ace of base - all that she wants bob marley - redemption song beatles - rocky raccoon weirld al yankovic - amish paradise the byrds - mr. tambourine man eric cartman - kyle's mom is abitch stan, kyle, eric - what would brian boitano do? narnia soundtrack - raid on the castle
As you can see, they have a pretty damn impressive database if it is capable of identifying that much crap (kidding - well, partly).
The only things I couldn't get identified are:
reagan youth "still alive" from the half-life portal game adam sandler - ode to my car switchblade symphony
If you want to have fun impressing your friends by pretending you know everything you hear, check out this application because it is incredibly accurate - and best of all: FREE!  --- "Shazam - a sweet app that i...ate" has been viewed times ---
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