There are three apps I know of for controlling your Transporter or Squeezebox from IPhone or ITouch.

I believe the Soolos and Linn music servers have apps as well.

Turn up the Bob Marley!

RG

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Shazam! is a free one that identifies tunes!

Shazam is crazy-awesome.

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Anyway, any good Hi Fi related apps?

A few of us here in the office have been tossing around the idea of developing apps for our readers. Speaker placement apps, cartridge set-up apps, record-cleaning apps...

If anything comes to mind, please let us know. Even if nothing comes to fruition, it's fun to think about.

Question:

Can Shazam tell the difference between Cecil Taylor in 1968 versus Cecil Taylor in 1975 versus Cecil Taylor in 1984? Also Shazam can tell the difference between Cecil Taylor and Don Pullen and Marilyn Crispell?

And on the classical music side, can Shazam tell the difference between Bernstein conducting Beethoven and Simon Rattle conducting Beethoven?

I strongly suspect that like iTunes and the iTunes store, Shazam is only good for popular music.

How 'bout a WAF app thta lulls your spouse into accepting room treatments?

Dunno! Go HERE and input Cecil Taylor. Then click on the more link at his name. Mrs. Gibran's Shizam has identified many a jazz tunes from internet streams for me.

RG

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I strongly suspect that like iTunes and the iTunes store, Shazam is only good for popular music.

To answer my own questions I enlisted my daughter's boyfriend who has an iPhone. He installed Shazam on his iPhone and we tested it out on a variety of music.

Rock and popular music - Shazam pretty much identified just about everything.

Jazz - Shazam could identify major releases by major artists, for example Art Tatum, Ornette Coleman ("Ramblin') and Miles Davis but could not identify lesser known artists (Matthew Shipp) or lesser known recordings by major artists (the great Miles Davis bootleg "No Blues").

Classical - a complete and utter failure. Shazam could not identify Beethoven's 5th symphony or Mozart's "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik".

I suspect that the software works by comparing the music one is trying to identify against a database of music on a server somewhere and looks for an exact match. Pretty straight forward when working with popular music where a Beatles song is a Beatles song but in the world of classical music each performance of a given piece of music is slightly different so although a human may be readily able identify the opening movement of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony but may not be able to identify the performance, the software can not identify either the work or the performance.

So Shazam either needs a bigger database or a different algorithm on how to identify the music.