Sunday, July 12, 2009

iTunes and Shazam


I know that iTunes is great at find the missing information of MP3's and AAC's. It uses the fragments of the information that is provided and I assume reference that with the CDDB along with song length and such. That is all good and grand when it works and you have some information from which it can start the searching of names titles and such. Yet, at times when I don't have internet access or when it's a mixed CD of which CDDB has no information I end up with countless Track 1's in my library. So here is my though, if Shazam takes a sampling of a song, looking for key notes or frequencies and sends this musical fingerprint to its servers to double check it on there own database, why can't iTunes sample the music files for which their is no information and send it to Shazam to figure out what Track 1 really is! That way I don't have to spend time typing the stupid names of songs!

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