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This happened about 2 weeks ago. I was on a Skype conference call with Rackspace and Mosso trying to get a really ridiculous level of redundancy setup for a client. That is not the point of the story.
The point is Rackspace put us on hold. When Rackspace puts you on hold you hear music piped from a local radio station in Texas. They were playing a song that sounded good to me, so I switched Skype’s output to speaker and used Shazam on my iPhone to figure out what song it was. Shazam, for the uninitiated, records the audio it hears on the iPhone’s microphone and uploads it to a server that figures out what song it is. Shazam has not failed me yet. The result showed up in about a second and I searched for the song on Amazon MP3, bought and downloaded it. All this happened before the support guy took us off hold.
If you had told me this was possible when I was 15 I would have thought you were on drugs.
The song was Leon Russell’s – Roll Away the Stone.
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