Comments on: iPhone’s Listen App - Listens & Tells You What Song Is Playing

By: patrick

patrick — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 23:04:30 +0000

Any part of the song as far as I can tell - I played that Miles Davis track and had to try several times for Listen to contact the ID server, but I just left the song playing, didn’t restart it or anything like that …

By: hsep88

hsep88 — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:25:12 +0000

Can it be any particular part of the song or would it work better around, say, the chorus?

By: patrick

patrick — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 19:35:56 +0000

hsep - Erica’s site mentions that you should only give it around 30 secs to contact the server - then just close and restart the app - I’ve had some songs where it works after several tries. I’ve also had some luck with holding the phone a little farther away from the speakers (odd as that sounds) …

By: hsep88

hsep88 — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 07:51:39 +0000

Can’t get passed the “Finished recording. Contacting info server” page on any of the songs I tried it out on. I’ve seen a phone do this before and was amazed. This would be very impressive.