[Sigia-l] Folksonomy on IT Conversations

[stephanie hornung]

On Aug 22, 2005, at 1:24 PM, Listera wrote:
>> press the "Buy Now" button on your FM radio?
>
> That day has been here a while. For instance:
>
> <http://www.relatable.com/>
>
> There are multiple companies working on this, approaching it from 
> various
> directions: embedded in the radio or via mobile devices like PDAs, USB
> keychain-like devices and cellphones. They generally rely on a large
> database of acoustic fingerprints against which a small sample is 
> compared.
> Lookup in a digital music store for download is a trivial matter once 
> the
> song is identified.

I assume RDS could be used for song id as well?  Though us slow-pokes 
in the U.S. are yet to really get on the bandwagon with using the RT 
functionality.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Data_System

(I have it in my Mini Cooper, and while its a bit spotty I love getting 
the instant gratification of the song/artist info.).