This is a one cool feature which comes built in some of the SE phones! It comes in da k800i and some phones in da W series! If u dont know what this (Read da topic!) is please read till the end coz this is really cool!
Below is da part of the review. It got it from http://www.gracenote.com/gn_products/mobileMusic.html. Note that this is not the full article. I deleted some contents as they were not useful (not regarding the software!)
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Hear it. Find it. Buy it.
Gracenote® offers wireless carriers and service providers a customized mobile solution that enables users to identify and discover new songs. Consumers simply hold up their phone anywhere the music is playing–in a bar, at a party or on the radio. Then a short clip of the music, from any section of the song, is matched to Gracenote's global database of audio fingerprints and music information. Once identified, Gracenote Link™ can be used to automatically connect the user to related content for hearing, viewing and purchase. Music fans get fast access to ringtones, full tracks, videos and all the content that makes mobile music fun.
Mobile Music Recognition
Waveform Fingerprint Technology
Gracenote Mobile MusicID™ uses a patent-pending waveform fingerprinting and search technology combined with the Gracenote Global Media Database, the world's largest database of music information, to provide a robust, scalable solution. Carriers and service providers can secure dedicated capacity or can access a hosted service operated by Gracenote to share capacity among multiple carriers.
How it Works
1. When music fans hear a song they want to identify, they tap a command on the phone keypad to start the audio recognition process, and then hold the phone up to the music source.
2. The phone captures a few seconds of the audio and extracts a waveform fingerprint of the snippet. The snippet can be from any section of the song, even the last few seconds.
3. The fingerprint is sent to the Mobile MusicID recognition service from the service provider that may be located anywhere in the world.
4. The Mobile MusicID recognition server compares the fingerprint to its database of reference fingerprints and responds with the exact match.
5. The artist, song title and related information, as well as content like album art and download links are relayed to the fan.
Mobile MusicID can complete the entire recognition and content linking process in as little as 10 seconds.
A Global Waveform Database
* The Gracenote Media Database currently has waveform fingerprints for over 8 million music tracks and is growing by over 25,000 a week.
* The waveform fingerprint database includes music from countries around the world, providing the greatest diversity in music recognition for a global population.
* Data is delivered in UTF-8 encoded character sets, providing Unicode support for all languages.
These are the phones which currently support this feature and will be supporting this feature! (Some phones are not yet released!)
* Sony Ericsson K800
* Sony Ericsson W850
* Sony Ericsson K790
* Sony Ericsson W880
* Sony Ericsson K810 U
* Sony Ericsson W830
* Sony Ericsson W580
* Sony Ericsson W610
* Sony Ericsson K550
* Sony Ericsson W660
* Sony Ericsson K850
* Sony Ericsson W888
* Sony Ericsson S500
* Sony Ericsson W960
* Sony Ericsson Z750
* Sony Ericsson T650
* Sony Ericsson W910
* Sony Ericsson K530
Below is da part of the review. It got it from http://www.gracenote.com/gn_products/mobileMusic.html. Note that this is not the full article. I deleted some contents as they were not useful (not regarding the software!)
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Hear it. Find it. Buy it.
Gracenote® offers wireless carriers and service providers a customized mobile solution that enables users to identify and discover new songs. Consumers simply hold up their phone anywhere the music is playing–in a bar, at a party or on the radio. Then a short clip of the music, from any section of the song, is matched to Gracenote's global database of audio fingerprints and music information. Once identified, Gracenote Link™ can be used to automatically connect the user to related content for hearing, viewing and purchase. Music fans get fast access to ringtones, full tracks, videos and all the content that makes mobile music fun.
Mobile Music Recognition
Waveform Fingerprint Technology
Gracenote Mobile MusicID™ uses a patent-pending waveform fingerprinting and search technology combined with the Gracenote Global Media Database, the world's largest database of music information, to provide a robust, scalable solution. Carriers and service providers can secure dedicated capacity or can access a hosted service operated by Gracenote to share capacity among multiple carriers.
How it Works
1. When music fans hear a song they want to identify, they tap a command on the phone keypad to start the audio recognition process, and then hold the phone up to the music source.
2. The phone captures a few seconds of the audio and extracts a waveform fingerprint of the snippet. The snippet can be from any section of the song, even the last few seconds.
3. The fingerprint is sent to the Mobile MusicID recognition service from the service provider that may be located anywhere in the world.
4. The Mobile MusicID recognition server compares the fingerprint to its database of reference fingerprints and responds with the exact match.
5. The artist, song title and related information, as well as content like album art and download links are relayed to the fan.
Mobile MusicID can complete the entire recognition and content linking process in as little as 10 seconds.
A Global Waveform Database
* The Gracenote Media Database currently has waveform fingerprints for over 8 million music tracks and is growing by over 25,000 a week.
* The waveform fingerprint database includes music from countries around the world, providing the greatest diversity in music recognition for a global population.
* Data is delivered in UTF-8 encoded character sets, providing Unicode support for all languages.
These are the phones which currently support this feature and will be supporting this feature! (Some phones are not yet released!)
* Sony Ericsson K800
* Sony Ericsson W850
* Sony Ericsson K790
* Sony Ericsson W880
* Sony Ericsson K810 U
* Sony Ericsson W830
* Sony Ericsson W580
* Sony Ericsson W610
* Sony Ericsson K550
* Sony Ericsson W660
* Sony Ericsson K850
* Sony Ericsson W888
* Sony Ericsson S500
* Sony Ericsson W960
* Sony Ericsson Z750
* Sony Ericsson T650
* Sony Ericsson W910
* Sony Ericsson K530
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