Getting Shazam or equivalent to auto identify a track internally (ie not speakers)

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Getting Shazam or equivalent to auto identify a track internally (ie not speakers)

Hello all,

Rather random picking of brains here please, I am proof listening some mixes through my Headphones (via iTunes), and need to double check that the tracklisting is correct (title and mix) as well as listening out for any problems. Is there an app on a Mac that I can use to identify the tracks internally as I am going along?

At the moment using a Headphone Jack Splitter 3.5mm Jack Plug to 2x 3.5mm and then routing that to Auxiliary hifi and through its speakers, with an iphone with Shazam on Auto. Ideally would have a more streamlined solution.

Thanks.

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Dude are you crazy?

You want an app that can grab zeros and ones and ID a track on your home PC? That sounds impossible.

Shazam merely listens to an analog wave recorded on a .17 cent Chinese cellphone microphone which was broadcast through a 12 year old rusting restaurant speaker then converts it to zeros and ones, uploads it via 4G and returns the ID to your cellphone.

You just better give it some time dude.

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Ah someone has taken the time to reply to my issue…aaaahhh it is to troll me.

One love dude.

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Is this what you mean?

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do you already have a tracklist?

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the joke was that they don’t have that app that can easily scan your PC.

Wasn’t trolling. I think it’s ridiculous.

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Ah apologies my bad. Does seem rather within the realms of possibilities and my workaround so cumbersome that I assumed it had to have to been a sarcastic reply. I usually listen on some big studio monitors with iphone on auto identify with mixed but generally get there in the end results. Does sometimes throw in some random curveballs.

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Yes I always do.

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So did you look at Shazam for mac?

Unless I don’t understand your op - it does exactly what you asked for…

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Actually it’s not ridiculous.
If Shazam listens to audio, converts it to 0 and 1’s, then matches it to another file of 0 and 1’s to get a result…
Then logically, it should be able to do the same thing by taking a 0 and 1 file and match it directly without having to convert it first.

Definitely possible… Would just have to point it to the file (or part of the file).
Wouldn’t be surprised if it’s out there already

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Don’t know how good it is, but, try a prog called ‘Tunatic’

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Its pretty much Exactly what Soundcloud does - so not outside the possible.

Another app that seems to do it is Beatunes.

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You realize my sarcasm went over your head right?

That’s my point. Why don’t they have this app? Seems easier to do a straight conversion than the Shazam route.

An app that scans your music library and automatically tags and corrects all your ID3 tags for your entire music collection.

No more Unknown Artist, TRACK 1 TRACK 2 TRACK 3 etc.

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crazy stuff:

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Anything goes over my head when the amount of sleep I get is less than the set I played the prior night :wink:

Figured it was sarcasm.

In any event… This idea is probably of interest to anyone who has an online store. Would love to be able to link right up to a track on Beatport that I heard on a podcast (not all give track listings). Cuts out the Shazam middleman and its inability to read off of that crappy iPhone speaker

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Then I don’t understand your problem…

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Me neither.

@Helmuth, what makes you think the tracklist is wrong?

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usually if you pirate songs or rip them off youtube the result is you might get songs that are not tagged and prepared correctly.

thus, a software that goes through and properly tags and ID’s content is usually desired.

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that’s not what he wants. He wants a program to read the dj mix and identify the songs. He already has a tracklisting of the mixes