New Phone Service Promises to ID Songs

Posted by samzenpus on Monday May 23, 2005 @12:32PM from the name-that-tune dept.

Coolnat2004 writes "Ever get a song stuck in your head, but you missed the DJ announcement of the song name? That's the idea powering a new cell phone-based service called 411-SONG. Just call 866-411-SONG, and hold your phone up to the speaker. 15 seconds later the call ends and the information on your song is displayed on your phone's screen. This comes at a price, though. 99 cents for your first 5 songs, and then 99 cents a song after that. However, nbc4.com reports that a subscription model may be coming soon. Wouldn't this technology be great for fixing up all those ID3 tags?"

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UK has Shazam Already by dan_polt · 2005-05-23 12:33 · Score: 5, Informative

This type of service been available in the uk for a few years now with shazam, it works reasonably well for currently popular songs, fairs a bit oddly with some older stuff though.

I have actually used it for mp3 tagging too :)
Been there, done that .... by Paul+Lamere · 2005-05-23 12:34 · Score: 5, Informative

Wouldn't this technology be great for fixing up all those ID3 tags? MusicBrainz