Today I discovered a really helpful use of the Shassam app.
People have shared music with me which iTunes has failed to identify. So, I had
a whole number of songs titled as track 1, track 2 etc.
Today I played the track whilst running Shassam which identified the song and
the singer. I was then able to press f2 which offers 4 edit fields where you
can enter the song title, singer, album name and lastly the genre.
I did initially have one irritation in that as soon as I amended the song
title, it disappeared and I had to search for it with the new title before I
could finish entering in the information in the other edit fields. However, if
I left the song title till last, I overcame this difficulty.
I rarely use Shassam but was really impressed with it as not only did it
identify every single song (despite them coming from some obscure albums) but
it also gave the lyrics and offers the opportunity to purchase the song.
Alison
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Hi Kevin,
I got there in the end. I decided my problem was that I wasn't getting the eye
steak in properly, being careful of course! Anyway, now all is well and I am
enjoying it! Thanks so much!
Carol P
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Hi Carol.
It’s just called iStick. If you insert the iStick into your phone you will be
prompted to download it directly.
Regards.
Kevin
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OK, Kevin, got mine and dying to try it.
What's the app called, please?
Carol P
On 07/01/2016 18:21, Kevin Lloyd (Redacted sender kevin.lloyd3 for DMARC) wrote:
Hi Alison.
She could consider purchasing an iStick and using that instead. A 16GB iStick
can be had for £16.99 on Amazon at the moment. The accompanying app can be
downloaded for free from the app store.
Effectively, it is a memory stick that has a standard USB at one end and a
lightning at the other. A switch in the middle of the device exposes either of
the ends depending on whether you are connecting to computer or an i device.
The app is accessible and allows you to browse the iStick contents, navigate
around the folders and then has it’s own music player with fully accessible
controls to play, pause, forward, rewind and play tracks in shuffle mode.
One word of warning is that the iStick player won’t remember it’s place so it’s
no good for MP3 audiobooks unfortunately.
It’s not too bulky when inserted into an iPhone but it is an extra accessory to
carry around.
Regards.
Kevin
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Subject: [Bulk] [access-uk] copying files to an iPhone
My friend has recently acquired an iPhone. She doesn’t want to use Itunes to
manage her music. She has asked how she might copy an mp3 file from her
computer to her iPhone.
My thoughts were that she could do this via Dropbox. She has asked that if she
uses this method, would it mean that she could only play the files when she had
a WIFI connection? I’d think not as surely once she has accessed the file via
Dropbox, it will be on her iPhone wouldn’t it?
Alison
