May 24

VZW Song ID is SWEET!

Tag: Technology/Gagetry — Bush Mackel @ 11:14 am

So over at Wealth Junkie, there was a post made about VZW Song ID. If you didn’t know, it’s a new app from Verizon that allows you to hold your phone up to any music you hear, and the phone is supposed to identify the song on the spot so that you can get that song as a ringtone or music file for your phone. Well, I had seen the commercials, but until I saw that post I had forgotten all about it.



So during my lunch break today, I was bored out of my mind. Not so bored that I considered going back to work, but pretty bored none the less. And then I remembered about VZW Song ID! So I logged onto Get It Now and saw that the download was free. Obviously, I had to check this out. So the download was super quick and painless, and in about a minute, I was ready to go. Now just to set this up, I’m in my car with the windows rolled up with a CD player and XM Radio. At this point I don’t have high expectations of this thing, so I just turn on the first thing I have which is Good Charlotte’s new CD.I start playing the CD and hit ID Song on my phone and after 10 seconds or so, the phone starts to analyze the data it has listened to and it comes back with a winner! “The River – Good Charlotte”. I was impressed. I’m not gonna lie. I tried 9 more songs, and I couldn’t stop it. Now I don’t know why, but having a phone being able to identify a random song is pretty freakin sweet. Out of these 10 songs, it nailed all 10.

  1. The River – Good Charloote
  2. Misery – Good Charlotte
  3. Hook – Blues Traveler
  4. Chasing Cars – Snow Patrol
  5. Always Something There to Remind Me – Naked Eyes
  6. Daughter – Pearl Jam
  7. Girl – Beastie Boys
  8. Lump – Presidents of the USA
  9. Lullaby – Shawn Mullins
  10. I Need to Know – Marc Anthony

Long story short, I tried like 20 or 30 more songs, and barely a hiccup. The only ones it had a problem with are the ones I gave it when I got frustrated and really went out of my way to try and break it by popping in a CD from the OST of the Dreamcast game, Samba de Amigo. It hit 1/3 songs there. But all in all, it performed flawlessly, nailing just about every song I put in it’s way, including songs from the 50, 60s, 70 and 90s and not just pop hits eitehr! Here are some highlights…

  1. Day-O – Harry Belafonte (horrible quality)
  2. Lean on Me – Bill Withers
  3. Eric B is President – Eric B & Rakim
  4. Da Doo Ron Ron – Crystals
  5. Do You Want To – Franz Ferdinand
  6. I Tried – Bone Thugs N Harmony
  7. True – Spandau Ballet
  8. Running Out of Time – Hot Hot Heat
  9. The Entire Fantasia 2000 CD
  10. Little Piece of My Heart – Janis Joplin

4 Responses to “VZW Song ID is SWEET!”

  1. listikal says:
    May 24th, 2007 at 11:19 am

    Wow,I have never even heard about this. I’m on Verizon too! Sweet! Now if we could only get all musicians to allow their songs to go digital.

  2. Bush Mackel says:
    May 24th, 2007 at 12:29 pm

    It’s definitely a very cool thing, you gotta download it and give it a try!

  3. Wealth Junkie says:
    May 29th, 2007 at 8:34 am

    Very cool! It sounded pretty neat in the commercial. If I ever switch to Verizon I will definitely try it myself. :)

  4. Bush Mackel says:
    May 29th, 2007 at 10:22 am

    That night I continued to just abuse it…even w/ the restaurant’s music on bad restaurant speakers, it was pretty spot on.

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