The other day I was with my son and brother in Starbucks. We were sitting at this little table drinking our coffees and music was playing in the background as usual.There were also quite a few other people there including the several members of the Starbucks' crew. So there was a lot of noise besides the background music.
So my son pulls out his iPhone and selects this application and holds it up a little ways off the table. I said "What are you doing?" and he replied "shhhhh!" and turned the iPhone towards me so I could see the screen.
It pretty much looked like the image except that thing in the middle was moving and I think at the top was the message "sending" or maybe "analyzing" or maybe I saw both. And then the screen changed so that all of the information about the song that was playing was shown right on the iPhone screen.
I said, incredulously, "You mean that app sampled the music and was able to identify the song and artist?" He answered affirmatively although the smile on his face made any answer redundant.
I have to say that I was very much impressed. I think that's very good programming.
I since installed the program on my own iPhone. It is free. I have used it a few times. I wanted to use it while I was driving the other day but decided I needed to pay more attention to driving than Shazam!
There is a web site that further explains the application.
