iPhone apps S/D

Out of curiosity, what tracks have you guys identified or failed to identify with either Shazam and/or Midomi?

Midomi has failed to identify anything I've played for it or sung into it. (Granted, that included Bernstein's "Chichester Psalms".) Shazam, OTOH, indentified random Keri Hilson, Mary J. Blige and T.I. songs with a ton of ambient noise in the background; the only thing it hasn't been able to identify was a random acid jazz track that was only under local release in Cincinnati.

Any updated game suggestions, either free or paid? I like Trism so far.

my shazam list (mostly testing it out):

A willie nelson song, i think, off the clock radio (has fallen off my list)

Laid Back: White Horse - PP's ringtone which he recorded by holding his cell up to his emac specker (ie very fuzzy)

Charlene: Ive never been to me - ihop pa system

Orleans: Dance with Me - ihop pa system

KT Tunstall: Suddenly I See - work office pa system. I had to out the name of the song that has annoyed me for the past who knows how many months

Alicia Keys: No one - see tunstall

Flight of the Conchords: Business Time - Car CD player

Led Zeppelin: Four Sticks - Someones cellphone iirc

Beastie Boys: Slow Ride - Licensed to Ill in the car cd player. I was trying to trick it by recording as "slow ride" goes into "girls". It stuck with the first song.

oh the only failed ones with shazam so far is some crappy contemporary jazz from another cable tv music/radio station and kids cd "the wonder pets" but i liked that it just says it cant recognize it rather than making a crappy guess like midomi does.

Midomi hasnt correctly identified anything so far

Call of Duty 4

(IT'S MEDIEVAL BEJEWELLED! AWESOME!)
Oh wow, must get this.

I like Pennies, actually. It was good for doing expenses on a trip.

Also still really loving Byline, too.

Aurora Feint is a good deal like Puzzle Quest, only with more tilting action, and less Warlords universe.

Weird. Midomi has gotten tons of stuff for me right. Techno, classic rock, indie, classical. Shazam's been a failure all 'round. :-/ ???

I'm curious if these apps rely on localized DBs... like maybe Shazam and/or Midomi work great in some cities, but are complete shit in others.

Agreed. I've been avoiding NNW like the plague until I hear something positive

i really like it! it's not perfect but it's not bloody bad, and syncs like a joy here.

shazam: it managed to pick out "surface to air" by the chemical brothers based on about five crappy seconds on a TV show, for which i will always love it. i've tested it on my own stuff to see if i can find its limits (did i post this above? i think i did, but hey): it only knew one earl brutus track (for shame) but recognised i start counting's "lose him", which i thought was fucking good.

midomi: hopeless. hasn't got anything i've tried. mrs F and i sang "happy birthday" into it; it only got her when she put on a ridiculous growly voice (she was pretending to be a shark singing it. don't ask.)

Weird. Midomi has gotten tons of stuff for me right. Techno, classic rock, indie, classical. Shazam's been a failure all 'round. :-/ ???

I'm curious if these apps rely on localized DBs... like maybe Shazam and/or Midomi work great in some cities, but are complete shit in others.

-- Mackro Mackro, Monday, August 11, 2008 4:52 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Link

so you're singing techno and classic rock songs to it?

dude, do you have the two apps mixed up?

You can play stuff into Midomi, too; it's just that you can do the same with Shazam and Shazam is more accurate, so the only reason to have Midomi is to sing songs at it and watch it flounder.

Flip the two app names, and that's my experience.

I'm wondering if this could be a regional issue.

(where's Elvis T to drop the knowledge?)

I've installed Zintin again, just to see what happens.

Graffitio will be useful one day, probably, but right now it's just loads of people writing nonsense about how crap the local food is.

Twinkle is wonderful. IceTV is handy. NNW is just fine; I don't get what all the noise is about.

Here I Am will come in enormously useful one day. So will Eventful, once the gigs begin to appear in greater numbers.

Facebook app needs more features if it's to be genuinely useful.

(where's Elvis T to drop the knowledge?)

I tried out Shazam a couple times. VU's "Stephanie Says" was correctly identified in a trial run and Dust Brothers' "Finding The Bomb" was recognized despite a bunch of Top Gear sound effects on top of it.

Haven't bothered with Midomi. I haven't really bothered with either of these because I, well, almost always recognize the song.

Recent apps I've added and liked:

Mobile Fotos, which used to be called Mobile Flickr and wasn't much cop. Has had an upgrade and is now pretty great.

TubeStatus: does what it says it does, perfectly well and really simply.

Top40 - Pop charts on my phone. With itunes store preview links. Cute, although I don't know whether it's really worth having on there when the same into is easy enough to grab through safari.

Vicinity seemed handy when I first started playing with it, but I'm starting to realise that Google Mobile can do everything it does, and better.

OK, DataCase is now my most valuable purchase.

that looks good!

datacase looks good but it kinda annoys me that you can't just do that natively on the iphone like every other ipod.

downloaded the beatmaker drum machine yesterday. haven't used it much yet but it looks like it will be lots of fun. has decent sounds, at least as good as on garageband, and you can export beats for use in garageband or logic or whatever.

that one is neat. i played with it.

I bought Solitaire City, since it had golf, freecell, and a bunch of other well-made apps.

Has anybody seen Frotz? http://code.google.com/p/iphonefrotz/

http://iphonefrotz.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/etc/sdk2.png

play Zork on your phone!

omg kingfish you have properly made my day.

NO fucking WAI. o, awesome.

i've been using this to stream my itunes from home to work for while, so this should be good:

http://www.simplifymedia.com/iphone20.html

top, kingfish! PDAs have long been the best way to play text adventures, especially if this has got contextual menus.

... which it doesn't seem to do. drat.

http://www.adairsystems.com/photocalc/

You can download any .z5/.z8 game from the IFDB, which is unfeasibly awesome. I don't yet know if it'll allow saved games.

*saving

http://www.mindgazer.org/dontpanic/game.htm

oh rats, that format doesn't work. oh well.

Frotz does save and restore!

It even has save and restore in a custom dictionary so you don't have to type the whole words!

ON IPHONE

Is it on the store yet? I can't see it

It was yesterday. Search for Frotz if you haven't already.

hell yeah:

Otherwise, you can access your files using the built-in web interface:
You will need access to a web server, or set up your own temporary web server
In Frotz, go to "Browse IFDB", select the Search icon at the bottom, and type in the URL of your web server.
From will download and install if you click on any link ending in .z3, .z4, .z5, .z8, .dat, or .zblorb.
Support for DataCase (Mac and PC) is planned.

not i just need to figure out how to get them to my phone, since i have a pc

WOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOW

now, rather

PLEASE let me know if you work it out. cbf setting up a web server just for this.

dammit, i can't d/l attachments, tho i can log into my gmail acct thru the browser. Somebody hook me up with online space, i'll help out.

Okay, i can't get rapidshare to work either. Email me, I need help.

Oh wait, zshare.net works. Slow process, but it seems to work.

hurrah! you is ace

http://www.simplifymedia.com/index.html

This seems like a bit of an improvement of Remote.

Interface is not so good, though

iSSH is out now

It seems germane to link to this one:

Text adventure games

why does it always ask you if you're sure you want to download updates?