PhantomBear
01-31-2010, 03:22 PM
My wife asks me to "consolidate" all of her crappy music on our new computer in anticipation of getting a new iPod for her birthday.
I just was amazed that I could take a burned CD with MP3s all over it, import it into iTunes, use Shazam on my phone to listen to the first 3 parts of the song, get the title, album, and artist in like 20 seconds. Then I can right click on the song in iTunes and 90% of the time get the cover art from the CD in like 2 seconds....
Man, we've come a long way from "ripping" CDs and converting them from WAV (or whatever it was) to MP3 for storage. Including waiting like 20 minutes for a single downloaded song (I downloaded the entire "Pink" discography in the time I spent typing this).
The only question I have is why isn't Shazam a part of iTunes yet?! I should just be able to click a button and the computer can listen to the song, name it, and do all that updating stuff....Probably because it would make pirating songs too easy for Apple to stomach or something.
I just was amazed that I could take a burned CD with MP3s all over it, import it into iTunes, use Shazam on my phone to listen to the first 3 parts of the song, get the title, album, and artist in like 20 seconds. Then I can right click on the song in iTunes and 90% of the time get the cover art from the CD in like 2 seconds....
Man, we've come a long way from "ripping" CDs and converting them from WAV (or whatever it was) to MP3 for storage. Including waiting like 20 minutes for a single downloaded song (I downloaded the entire "Pink" discography in the time I spent typing this).
The only question I have is why isn't Shazam a part of iTunes yet?! I should just be able to click a button and the computer can listen to the song, name it, and do all that updating stuff....Probably because it would make pirating songs too easy for Apple to stomach or something.