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AT&T Wireless Announces Music ID Service

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the hum-me-a-few-bars dept.

mindless4210 writes "AT&T Wireless announced today the release of their new Music ID Service from Musicphone. AT&T customers can identify songs by dialing '#ID' and holding their phones next to the music source. Daily Wireless did a full review of the new service, testing it in several environments against different genres of music. Now you can finally figure out the name of that song on the radio that you've been dying to know!"

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  1. mwahaha by Aggrazel · · Score: 2, Funny

    Turn this on next to will hung and watch a phone kill itself.

    1. Re:mwahaha by LostCluster · · Score: 2, Funny

      Nah... it'd just report

      Error: Music was not input...

  2. Does anyone know this song? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny


    la-la-la-lalala-la-la-la?

    Thanks.

    1. Re:Does anyone know this song? by Uber+Banker · · Score: 2, Funny

      Is it the cover of Anathema's Sleepless by Cradle of Filth?

    2. Re:Does anyone know this song? by Atomizer · · Score: 3, Funny

      I think it's S.O.S.

  3. Re:Good idea, too much money. by MaineCoon · · Score: 4, Funny

    How could you buy it on iTunes or Napster, unless you know the name?

    Now, will their system overload if you try to get it to recognize Death Metal?

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  4. Missing feature: by El_Smack · · Score: 5, Funny

    [Digital Operator type voice]
    I'm sorry, the song you are trying to ID is by... Brittany ... Spears. Please hang up, and listen to something good.
    [/Digital Operator type voice]

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  5. but... by ambienceman · · Score: 5, Funny

    AT&T still sucks...

    I'd like to see when they introduce the new feature that allows me to actually make a call...and maybe a new feature that allows me to promptly speak with a customer rep.
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    1. Re:but... by fo0bar · · Score: 3, Funny
      I'd like to see when they introduce the new feature that allows me to actually make a call...

      I'm not sure what you mean... My "outdated" AT&T TDMA phone is great. All of the other providers and technologies have phased out making calls, while introducing "features" such as surround sound ringtones, stamp-sized streaming pornography, camera, and The Mobile ARPAnet(TM).

      Call me old fashioned, but I like the antiquated style of punching in a phone number, taking into a microphone, and listening for a response.

  6. singing in the shower by hardaker · · Score: 2, Funny

    so I wonder what it'll tell me about my rendition of "rubber ducky" while I take a shower?
    it'd probably come back with "don't quit your day job" by "at&t".

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  7. Good for contests by good-n-nappy · · Score: 3, Funny

    The only real use for this is to win those contests on the radio where they play a 2 second snippet from a song and you have to guess what song it is.

    I have to say though, that I pity anyway who actually participates in these contests.

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  8. Is a computer really IDing it? by ism · · Score: 2, Funny

    I just figure they'd outsource it to India and have Indians ID the songs. Just have each Indian listen to one genre of music, weighted by popularity and likelyhood to come up. You can probably attach 3 people to each ID session -- pop/rock, country, and hip-hop and if they can't ID it, pass it on to the next tier of IDers. It would probably still be cheaper than audio fingerprinting, considering how distorted the music must be.

  9. Re:Good idea, too much money. by sydb · · Score: 4, Funny

    Please tell us more about the 1% of songs you want names for, but you don't know the songs. I am interested in surrealism.

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  10. Re:Good idea, too much money. by cheezit · · Score: 4, Funny

    Let's see...ultra-mechanical rhythms, very repetitive, cookie-monster vocals, no dynamics....I bet death metal would be easy. Plus, if it misidentified a song, who would know?

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  11. Re:Good idea, too much money. by Derg · · Score: 2, Funny

    Plus, if it misidentified a song, who would know?


    Bastard. Soda out the nose hurts. I want my dollar back. That was too funny.

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  12. Fails by _ph1ux_ · · Score: 2, Funny

    Every time I try to ID this one song, it fails.

    I can remember what its called, just that its by a guy named John Cage - and is about 4 and a half minutes long...

  13. Re:The Last DJ. by IntelliTubbie · · Score: 4, Funny

    And there goes the last DJ

    And there goes the last DJ

    Damn, if only I knew the title of that song...

    Cheers,
    IT

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  14. Re:Does this tell you anything? by Polymath+Crowbane · · Score: 2, Funny
    It was a joke, yes. Unfortuantely, there is no HTML for "tongue-firmly-imbedded-in-cheek."

    Of course, this being /., I suspect the majority of people reading this would need to use the service to identify Beethoven's Piano Sonata in c#.