Text service to find out song?

Vanilla · 19 Mar 2006 at 21:04

I remember a friend showing me one day this service. He recorded a song for a few seconds off the radio and texted t somewhere that came back with the name of the song.

Does anyone know the name / number of this service! got a song that's bugging me!

starscream · 19 Mar 2006 at 21:05

Yeah I used this about a year ago. IIRC it is the numbers down the middle of a phone keypad, so 2580. I think its called shazam or similar.

kip02 · 19 Mar 2006 at 21:06

Think its called Shazzam, no is 2580.

Vanilla · 19 Mar 2006 at 21:07

Thanks for the name

AH=h damn, it looks like you have to ring the number while the song is playing, I only have a recording

Fantom · 19 Mar 2006 at 21:08

should be able to play back the recording and use another phone to call shazam

reflex · 19 Mar 2006 at 21:24

What would happen if they didnt know who it was

spike's · 19 Mar 2006 at 21:59

reflex said:
What would happen if they didnt know who it was

then you get a txt saying that it needs to be louder. it is in general very good.

smokey · 19 Mar 2006 at 22:03

yeah it works for me. but at 50p a pop i don't use it often!

Chronos-X · 19 Mar 2006 at 22:05

I dont understand people who don't use it. Its 50p ffs! Even a tramp wouldn't stop to pick that up.

Ja (: · 19 Mar 2006 at 22:34

Chronos-X said:
I dont understand people who don't use it. Its 50p ffs! Even a tramp wouldn't stop to pick that up.

I'd stop to pick that up xD!

Vanilla · 19 Mar 2006 at 23:01

Damn it's good. I have two phones. I played the clip from one phone into the other while calling them.

They got the song easily. The quality was awful and the volume really poor (taken in a club) and they still got it!

Chronicle · 19 Mar 2006 at 23:37

Yes they would. I've even seen a tramp come into burger king to pick up one chip on a table that someone had left. And i would pick up even 20p. Even 10p actually.

Chronos-X said:
I dont understand people who don't use it. Its 50p ffs! Even a tramp wouldn't stop to pick that up.

Chronos-X · 20 Mar 2006 at 20:35

I've seen a few pick up very short fag ends to light up again and get an extra lungfull out of ;{

Melm0 · 20 Mar 2006 at 20:43

Chronos-X said:
I dont understand people who don't use it. Its 50p ffs! Even a tramp wouldn't stop to pick that up.

Get over it... Ofcourse a tramp would pick 50p up... i certainly would.

If i don't know the name of a song i usually try to remember a line of the lyrics and google 'em when i get home.

megakid · 20 Mar 2006 at 20:52

Melm0 said:
If i don't know the name of a song i usually try to remember a line of the lyrics and google 'em when i get home.

Exactly what I do.

Regarding the 50p thing: In my world that's a hell of a lot of money to be spending on finding out a song title!! I love music and I certainly wouldnt call myself tight either, it's just in no-way essential to my way of life. I think it pretty much sums up some of the public today, all with massive debts etc - as tesco's puts it - Every little helps! Everytime I choose not to us that service and spend an extra 5 minutes (if that) googling a lyric I save 50p...

qwerty · 20 Mar 2006 at 23:23

megakid said:
Exactly what I do.

Regarding the 50p thing: In my world that's a hell of a lot of money to be spending on finding out a song title!! I love music and I certainly wouldnt call myself tight either, it's just in no-way essential to my way of life. I think it pretty much sums up some of the public today, all with massive debts etc - as tesco's puts it - Every little helps! Everytime I choose not to us that service and spend an extra 5 minutes (if that) googling a lyric I save 50p...

But then you probably go and spend 79p downloading it on iTunes.

Sirrel Squirrel · 20 Mar 2006 at 23:26

Chronos-X said:
I've seen a few pick up very short fag ends to light up again and get an extra lungfull out of ;{

I've seen them going through the little cigarette bin outside my work, its nice of them to tip it out on the floor afterwards too :mad:

rG-tom · 20 Mar 2006 at 23:46

qwerty said:
But then you probably go and spend 79p downloading it on iTunes.

which he would have to spend even if he'd spent the 50p on shazam? :s

Tom.

ScarySquirrel · 20 Mar 2006 at 23:50

It's very impressive, i remember playing some really obscure songs, and they even picked up that they were the live versions etc.