Tuesday, July 05, 2005
Company can ID that song that's driving you crazy
Ever had trouble naming that tune you heard on the radio or in a club?
Now, if you can't track down someone who can tell you what it was, you can try something new: 411-SONG.
You call a toll-free number on your cell phone and play the music you're trying to identify for 15 seconds. (Warning: Don't mix driving and song identification.) The program then contacts you via text message, whether it can make the ID or not.
Sorry, but humming a tune won't work.
But the service can distinguish between different performers' versions of the same tune to match audio "fingerprints" from its database of more than 2.5 million popular recordings.
The database doesn't include classical music or jazz.
Costs 99 cents each
A Chicago Sun-Times reporter tried the service with four songs -- two well-known and two somewhat obscure, and 411-SONG scored correctly three out of four times.
It nailed Johnny Cash's "I Walk the Line," Dr. Hook's "Cover Of The Rolling Stone" and Deanta's "The Rocky Reels" from a Celtic collection. But, oy vey, mon, 411-SONG missed a song from a well-reviewed Hasidic reggae album by Matisyahu.
The service charges 99 cents for each tune it correctly identifies. In the near future, 411-SONG plans to introduce a flat-rate unlimited service.
411-SONG also offers ringtones to download at $2 to $3 each.
Cingular, T-Mobile, Verizon and Sprint PCS customers can use 411-SONG. Only Cingular customers now can link directly from the text message to buy ringtones. Users of other services have to go online if they want to buy ringtones -- or the tracks themselves.
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-song05.html
Ever had trouble naming that tune you heard on the radio or in a club?
Now, if you can't track down someone who can tell you what it was, you can try something new: 411-SONG.
You call a toll-free number on your cell phone and play the music you're trying to identify for 15 seconds. (Warning: Don't mix driving and song identification.) The program then contacts you via text message, whether it can make the ID or not.
Sorry, but humming a tune won't work.
But the service can distinguish between different performers' versions of the same tune to match audio "fingerprints" from its database of more than 2.5 million popular recordings.
The database doesn't include classical music or jazz.
Costs 99 cents each
A Chicago Sun-Times reporter tried the service with four songs -- two well-known and two somewhat obscure, and 411-SONG scored correctly three out of four times.
It nailed Johnny Cash's "I Walk the Line," Dr. Hook's "Cover Of The Rolling Stone" and Deanta's "The Rocky Reels" from a Celtic collection. But, oy vey, mon, 411-SONG missed a song from a well-reviewed Hasidic reggae album by Matisyahu.
The service charges 99 cents for each tune it correctly identifies. In the near future, 411-SONG plans to introduce a flat-rate unlimited service.
411-SONG also offers ringtones to download at $2 to $3 each.
Cingular, T-Mobile, Verizon and Sprint PCS customers can use 411-SONG. Only Cingular customers now can link directly from the text message to buy ringtones. Users of other services have to go online if they want to buy ringtones -- or the tracks themselves.
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-song05.html
Comments:
May I ask why you are putting an article like this up? Did you feel the need to pad your high quality blog with some filler?
Comment Credit ---This article posted by 
: July 05, 2005 6:40 PM
: July 05, 2005 6:40 PM
FYI
Chaptzem uses a news filter.
The word hasidic came up so thats why he posted it.
Give him a break
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Chaptzem uses a news filter.
The word hasidic came up so thats why he posted it.
Give him a break
Comment Credit ---This article posted by : July 06, 2005 2:03 PM
: July 06, 2005 2:03 PM
