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TrackID™ on Sony Ericsson W880i tested

July 27th, 2007 by ck

TrackID

TrackID™ is a feature available in most of the newer range of mobile phones from Sony Ericsson. It’s a feature that allows you to record a few seconds of a song using your mobile, and get track, artist and album information sent to you in seconds. While it’s a handy tool to help you identify the song name, it’s considered under hyped in a sense that many haven’t tested it or aren’t even aware of it.

In this article, I’ll demonstrate step-by-step how to use TrackID via my Sony Ericsson W880i

First, I play a song in my WMP11, let’s try with a Cantonese song and see if TrackID is able to recognise it or not..

Step 1

Then, while the song is being played, I launch TrackID from my W880i main menu..

Step 2

Press start to identify the music track currently in play..

Step 3

Recording in progress..

Step 4

And wait for the sample track to be uploaded to the Internet..

Step 5

And here you go, you’ve got the song info! And surprisingly it can recognise Cantonese songs too. You can also send the info to your friend via SMS :-)

Step 6

But one thing to take note, the success rate is definitely not 100%, I’ve tested it quite a number of times and it doesn’t always work. Anyway, have fun with it if you’ve got your latest Sony Ericsson Walkman phone with you.

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One Response to “TrackID™ on Sony Ericsson W880i tested”

  1. on 04 Aug 2007 at 4:09 pm   ryuchi

    Hi LeetleKid,

    I’ve got my SE W880i walkman phone recently. I’ve tested the TrackID service once, and it worked nicely.

    But recently, it doesn’t work. When i sampling a music clip and sent it over to the internet. It says “sorry, your device is not allowed to the service”.

    Is this my phone problem? Or its Gracenote (the TrackID service provider) server problem?

    I’ve heard that TrackID only recognise international songs, but not regional songs. I’ve tried on few international songs but it wont work too.

    Need your advice. Kindly reply me at: yoshitsune26@yahoo.com.

    Thank you very much.

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