Comment by fiefie | January 8, 2008 | 8:52 pm

NICE! Chinese works.. This is amazing! Where do you grab info from?

Comment by flopethedope | January 8, 2008 | 8:56 pm

Short of it not finding songs, it seems like whatever you changed in this version has stopped the random reboots.

Comment by Erica Sadun | January 8, 2008 | 9:06 pm

I’ve changed nothing that would cause or prevent reboots. Honest!

This is as vanilla a program as you might imagine.

Comment by JuiCe | January 8, 2008 | 9:08 pm

Any chance this will be fixed to work with 1.0.2? I get as far as contacting the server, chills for a few seconds, and then back to SpringBoard land. First Jiggy, now this. Must.. upgrade… phone…..

Comment by Assassin | January 8, 2008 | 9:12 pm

yes please get this working for us 1.0.2 users. thanx

Comment by amisle | January 8, 2008 | 10:26 pm

Yes, internationalization is much improved over beta 1. I tested with several foreign songs and all displayed fine.

The only problem I am having is that often the album name will be cut off - I only get the first 10 characters or so. This was not a problem in b1. It is not always truncated, though - some launches will display the full title.

Erica, this program is amazing! Please give us some details on how you did this. What database are you using?

Comment by pbags | January 8, 2008 | 10:51 pm

its gracenote’s database - www.gracenote.com/business_solutions/music_id/

(hope you don’t mind me linking Erica) - I had this feature on my sony w880i and I sorely missed it - until now. Well done Erica - thanks so much!

Comment by likwidfuzion | January 9, 2008 | 12:09 am

This beta is much improved thanks to Unicode.

I think the app can be improved further by giving the user the option to press Done to go to the purple background screen with the song info instead of quitting the app and a Quit button to actually quit the program.

Comment by ecosta | January 9, 2008 | 5:06 am

Unicode works fine for brazilian music. Terrific application, thanks a lot !

Comment by tulik23 | January 9, 2008 | 5:39 am

Hi

WHAoooooooo

very nice and quick
preaty that it does not recognize Hebrew songs :)

great

Comment by Rudi77 | January 9, 2008 | 5:45 am

Song not found message given when wifi is not active. Should this work with GPRS?, I was hoping so, using this in a cafe or club would be awesome. Hi from Holland, and thanks for the best app to hit the iphone! Rudi

Comment by Rudi77 | January 9, 2008 | 5:47 am

The chinese songs I’ve tried so far work great

Comment by keng | January 9, 2008 | 6:02 am

Erica,

This is an amazing piece of work. I’ve been testing B1 and B3. It works great over Wifi but when i’m on the road and try to id a song. The data is a bit out of place.

The artist name is in the song title
The album name is in the artist title
and for the Album name i get:
Send music info via SMS

This is the only real flaw i can discover in Listen. Hope you can use this info.

Comment by loris | January 9, 2008 | 6:14 am

Cool improvements, that new encoding release works great.
One more idea i am coming with: sometimes the song you want to identify can be on your iPhone (for instance when listening to a web radio or a non tagged mp3, etc) … Thus do you think it (i guess so) would be possible to choose whether to record the song from your microphone or from your own iPhone sound output ?

Comment by zoph | January 9, 2008 | 7:23 am

Seems to crash 90% of the time on my iphone 1.1.2

Task 0xc5ea3ab8: 4 threads: pid 112: ListenApp
thread 0xc3acb3bc
kernel backtrace: c0003ed8
lr: 0xc0061fb3 fp: 0xc0003efc
lr: 0xc006219b fp: 0xc0003f14
lr: 0xc0019871 fp: 0xc0003f44
lr: 0xc012d76f fp: 0xc0003f5c
lr: 0xc033a698 fp: 0xc0003fa0
lr: 0xc0339cb8 fp: 0xc0003fb8
lr: 0xc0141b2d fp: 0xc0003fcc
lr: 0xc033d9cc fp: 0xc0003fec
lr: 0xc014d12d fp: 0xc0003ff8
lr: 0xc00604c0 fp: 0×2ffffce0
user state:
r0: 0×00101720 r1: 0×309ecb48 r2: 0×00000000 r3: 0×00000124
r4: 0×3a8fb1cc r5: 0×001052d0 r6: 0×00000000 r7: 0×2ffffce0
r8: 0×00000000 r9: 0×3800da94 r10: 0×0012e530 r11: 0×00000000
r12: 0×3895a17c sp: 0×2ffffc18 lr: 0×309567b7 pc: 0×310780a4
cpsr: 0×00000010 fsr: 0×00000007 far: 0×31c08114
user backtrace: 2ffffce0
lr: 0×3095c127 fp: 0×2ffffce8
lr: 0×328ad020 fp: 0×2ffffd04
lr: 0×328b5630 fp: 0×2ffffd2c
lr: 0×328ad454 fp: 0×2ffffd3c
lr: 0×328b3148 fp: 0×2ffffd64
lr: 0×00002c2c fp: 0×2ffffd8c
lr: 0×00002b1c fp: 0×2ffffdb0
lr: 0×0000

Here the crash log, contact me for full crash log.

Thanks a lot.

Comment by Erica Sadun | January 9, 2008 | 9:03 am

You can’t record music you’re playing ont he iPhone. The celestial AV Controller and AV Recorder classes interfere with each other.

Comment by Rudi77 | January 9, 2008 | 9:09 am

How much data is being sent? Does the app send the snippet of music or convert it to a manageable chunk?

Comment by martijnve | January 9, 2008 | 9:28 am

From my testing it seems so send just over 15KB and receive something between 5KB and 10KB.

That downstream figure seems to be much more than necessary?

Comment by martijnve | January 9, 2008 | 9:28 am

New encodig is working fine btw!

Comment by geircito | January 9, 2008 | 10:08 am

People with crash issues:
When 0.1beta was out I had a lot of crashes with Listen - the same with Voice Notes (it actually didn’t record a thing). So I decided to do some cleaning and reinnstalled 1.1.2. After that both Listen and Voice Notes works with no crashes at all.

Comment by mmoore2084 | January 9, 2008 | 10:19 am

Works pretty good for me, some songs won’t be recognized but usually pretty good. Would like to see a button to maybe try again if it doesn’t find it instead of having to close it out and start over. Thanks for your hard work

Comment by armitage | January 9, 2008 | 10:23 am

Strange, when I download from here (betas 1-3) and use WinSCP to install, I can see the background screen but the program exits after a minute. If I use Installer.app the beta-1 works fine though. Probably a conflict somewhere (got a lot of apps on my phone).

Comment by martijnve | January 9, 2008 | 10:56 am

@ armitage

You need to set the permissions after uploading with winscp dont know exacly what the minimum is but i use 755.

Select all the files in the folder right-click on one of them select properties and the set the persmissions at the bottom.

Comment by grahamgilbert | January 9, 2008 | 11:11 am

Beta 1 worked perfectly, but beta 3 gets to a purple screen and then dies and goes back to the springboard.

Comment by vinz262002 | January 9, 2008 | 11:19 am

Exact same situation than grahamgilbert.

I hav uninstalled beta1 thru Installer, and installed beta3 thru AFP then tried with chmod 755 the app but nothing change… Get the purple screen and then the app crashes.

BTW, Great app !!! (from what I’ve tried with beta1)

Comment by Netzphantom | January 9, 2008 | 12:21 pm

I have tried all 3 beta Versions on my 1.1.2 iPhone.
5 sec after starting the Program my iPhone reboots.
With the first beta i started the prog and held it 5 sec. near the radio. “Finished recording..connecting to server was everything i saw. It still does not work.
Colours have changed but the problem ist still the same. Please fix it

Comment by shaiss | January 9, 2008 | 12:29 pm

Any chance youd release the source?

I’m sure theres plenty people out there that would love to integrate this into there apps

Comment by James | January 9, 2008 | 12:30 pm

Erica, This is simply the most jaw dropping of all the apps I’ve shown to my non-techie friends. Its worked great on my 1.1.2 iPhone. Thanks for hooking this one up

Comment by shaiss | January 9, 2008 | 12:32 pm

someone had commented before about head units with MusicID and this ability. It is infact out there.
http://www.gracenote.com/powered_by_gracenote/auto/alpine/

Comment by Iphonenew | January 9, 2008 | 12:40 pm

Erica, i can send you the .amr files…still not working…if it can help solve my problem.
I really dont know what happen to my Iphone…and Audio recognition (listen) too is not working…
It’s not able to produce amr files from mic (and earphones) it seems….What can i do?

(Erica, i still have problems with VNotes…silence or low weird sounds are played back. I hope it’s not a problem with Iphone mic…but it works well during phone calls.
Help pls?…i need that application on my Iphone 1.1.1
Any ideas for that mic problem evenctually?)
Need answer.
Thanks in advance.

Comment by ganky | January 9, 2008 | 12:58 pm

Erica,

I don’t have an iPhone yet. I’ll receive this on Friday. But I must say that this will be the first app that i will install on my iPhone.

I have a question though.

Is there a kind of memory in the program?
Because lets say for instance you are in your car and you hear a song on the radio. You are like… love this song… but what is the title?
You turn on this app and it returns the name and artist of the song.

What now if you close the app and you are home thinking… damn.. what was the name of the song….

To sum up… is there a way when you’ve requested a name of a song that it copies the name and artist to a tempfile what you can recall and see which songs you have found with this program?

Let me know if it is possible or maybe will come in a next beta.

If my english isn’t well i apologize. It’s not my native language.

Dustin

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Comment by martijnve | January 9, 2008 | 2:08 pm

Just had another crash, also had a lot of trouble getting it to boot after it crashed :-S.

Comment by danielcip | January 9, 2008 | 2:16 pm

Listen Beta 3
Desde Argentina. He probado el programa con muisica de la radio en español y en ingles, me funciona bien. gracias por todo. Daniel

Comment by armitage | January 9, 2008 | 2:45 pm

Got the beta-3 on Installer.app working great! Seems more responsive than yesterday - or is it just me?
Erica, another feature that would make this app PERFECT - parse the song info and download the lyrics from a service like leoslyrics.com! THANKS!

Comment by armitage | January 9, 2008 | 2:49 pm

Also, iTunes link is returning “This item cannot be accessed on your device, but may be available from the iTunes Store when accessed from your computer.”

Comment by Erica Sadun | January 9, 2008 | 3:00 pm

Make sure to set the actual application (Listen.app/ListenApp) to 755. Chmodding the .app bundle won’t do it for you.