Monday iPhone App Review - Shazam
Aug 4, 2008 iPhone Ap Review
Because I have nothing better to do with my time (ahem), I have decided to review some of my favorite iPhone aps. For the time being, I plan on posting these reviews on Mondays, but it may go the way of my “Site of the Week” and just disappear after awhile.
Today, I start the reviewpalooza with Shazam which is quickly becoming one of my favorite aps.
Let me lay it out there for you.
You’re riding in the car with your wife and an old song pops up on the radio.
You: “I haven’t heard this song in…like…forever. It used to be one of my favorites!”
Your Wife: “Do you know who sings this?”
**SILENCE**
“You don’t know?”
“Uh…”
“Idiot.”
And then just to screw with you, your wife won’t tell you who sings the song and it plagues you for the rest of the day. But not anymore!
Enter “Shazam!”
With this fancy ap, you literally hold your phone up to the speaker for a few seconds and a few seconds later it reminds you who sings your favorite song:
Now if that isn’t cool enough for you, you have more options, including:
- Downloading the song on iTunes
- Taking a picture of your wife being amazed with this technology to add as a tag
- Jumping over to YouTube to watch the video for the song you are listening to
I have been trying to trick Shazam for the last couple days and I am super impressed with the songs it knows. Here’s the last few I searched for:
About the only thing I have been able trick it with so far is Korean rap. Apparently, the program is racist. Other than that unseemly quality, Shazam is amazing.
August 4th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
give it the first few seconds of Ice Ice Baby or Under Pressure and see if it can tell the difference. that would be very impressive.
August 4th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
The “Yo Vanilla” during the opening of the song tipped it off. It got the difference between the two.
August 4th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
I heard you can actually sing into the phone and it will figure it out for you. I have yet to try it. Here are my favorites:
iPint
JirboBreak
More Cowbell
Spinner
Labyrinth LE
Good times.