a musical note… on the magic of Shazam
So back last weekend (as opposed to this past weekend) when I was up at my dad's house, he was asking about all the wild and crazy things that my iPhone can do.
One of the apps I talked up was one that I had unfortunately shuffled back to a third or fourth or fifth page of apps on my phone. But ever since I extolled the virtues of Shazam to my dad, I've been using it a lot more.
Since then, I've engaged in a friendly Shazam war with Ashley at bingo a little over a week ago as we furiously tried to identify all the hip and obscure tracks playing at the Ace, and I also did a Shazam head-to-head of sorts with Sam tonight as we tried to figure out what the not-as-hip but equally obscure music playing at Chipotle was.
Also, after being reminded by Ashley of this obvious application for the app, I used Shazam quite a bit in the car while I was traveling to and from Arizona this past week. So Shazam is responsible for identifying many of the songs you've seen listed lately in the listening to sidebar here on Brian.Indrelunas.com.
And it was via Shazam that I learned that the "Wake up in the morning feelin' like P. Diddy" song and the oddly named "Tik Tok" by the equally oddly named Ke$ha that I kept seeing as a top iTunes download were, in fact, one and the same.
You know, I was thinking about all things Shazam on Friday, and it occurred to me that years ago I always thought it would be cool if we could somehow, someday move from just having the ability to search text to being able to search by pitch or melody. And although that's not how Shazam works (hence its inability to match up a live performance with a prerecorded track) we're getting pretty close.
Welcome to the future, y'all.
On another musical note: Unlike my last trip to Arizona, the Phoenix and Palm Springs stations seemed to be more on the same page this time around in terms of what's so hot right now — with one notable exception. Again, I didn't even once hear OneRepublic's "All the Right Moves" on any Arizona stations... but it came on the Coachella Valley's KRCK right as I was getting into town on my way back Monday night. It was a nice welcome-home anthem of sorts.