App instantly identifies tv episode by listeneing to it

[Brian B.]

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/intonow/id406436404?mt=8

 

iPhone / iPad app that listens to a few seconds of a tv show and identifies which show/episode and title it is. Came in very handy in the last few days to clear up my mess of a video library

 

Oh, and it's free.

[kizer]

I just used this today because of your post and it easy picked up MASH Season 6, Episode 5.

Thats cool because I ripped all 11 Seasons to unRAID last week and honestly I was confused on which episode is which in each season so now I can use my iPad or my Android phone to identify them.

 

Thanks this is really helpful

[opentoe]

Sick, I just used it also from an OLD Star Trek version and it picked it up perfectly.

 

[ibixat]

I messed with it while watching random tv shows off my server last night and I gotta say, CREEPY... I thought soundhound/shazaam et al were voodoo black magic already, this just goes one step beyond... It identified a TV show from like 10 seconds of background noise and then like 2 lines of dialog

[toby9999]

Imagine automating this.  A script runs through every file you have, briefly plays each one, and tags/renames the file correctly. FTW!

[kizer]

What blew me away was I was renaming my MASH box set. There are 11 seasons with 20+ episodes per season. So lets just say it was a God send to click the Green button on my iPad.

 

I would start an episode up slide the bar over to the middle to jump right into the episode without having to wait for the intro to finish. It was an episode where a Helicopter was flying around in the mountains bringing in wonded. There wasn't one spoken word. I tried it 3 times because I couldn't belive it. It nailed the episode everytime.

[ccruzen]

Preface: the following post is true but full of sarcasm.

 

I'm pretty disappointed in this app.  Was trying to identify some MASK episodes and it failed on every one. 

[Brian B.]

I too am disappointed in this app. Although it properly identified hundreds of tv episodes in my library, when I tried it out on SMASH it correctly identified it too, instead of calling it out for being NBC's attempt at riding Glee's coattails. 

[Influencer]

The app is also available on Android under the same name. I can't think of any frequent opportunities to actually use the app, but its cool to have.

[Brian B.]

I use it every other day. I cut cable a few years ago, and have a Mac running EyeTV as my DVR. I get my tv guide data over the air from each station, but it's horribly incomplete; it's always missing the episode names. (not sure if the stations don't send it or eyetv is not properly saving it.) I then use eyetv to clip out the commercials, and  convert it to a mp4 file, then use this app to help figure out what episode it was and rename it. If I'm really ambitious I run the mp4 thru iDentify to fill in all the mp4 tags, but I usually don't, or I wait until I have a whole season and then do it.

[Influencer]

Well since the database is obviously out there, someone or someones should build a cross-platform program to use the database to "fingerprint" the episodes to do everything for you, much like MusicBrainz Picard does. Just to get the database from yahoo would be the hard part, .

 

Have you tried using EyeTV EPG Proxy ?  http://eep.pommepause.com/

 

Seems like it would solve your issue

[mbryanr]

This was a slick app.  Tried the Android version on a True Blood episode...randomly ff to a scene, and thought this will fail ..and voila correctly identified.  All it had to work off of was the retraction of teeth noise and the rolling of dice.  Very nice.

[Swixxy]

Anybody know of a similar service on the pc?

 

I use 'For the Record' at the moment to record TV shows, however its naming has something left to be desired since the EPG doesn't know the episode title, season number or episode number! Making it almost impossible for me to convert it into a compatible format for xbmc.

 

This seems like the perfect thing to patch in, be able to feed a video file & it outputs the tvdb link (or the format to use Show Name.SXX.EXX)

 

Anybody know of anything similar? This has seriously sparked my interest, and short of hooking it up to my phone to run automatically ( ;D Ultimate hackjob) i'd love to be able to do this.

[fitbrit]

Sounds very cool, but I don't want to have to transfer files to my iPhone first. Would be great working on a PC. Could be good for unRAID to when one has to fix a ReiserFS and is left with meaninglessly labeled video files in Lost&Found.

[mbryanr]

No need to transfer files.

 

Just playback the video on your TV...the app from the phone picks up which episode.

[fitbrit]

Using the microphone? Ah... yes, very cool! Thanks for the response.

[fitbrit]

Oh... not available in Canadian iTunes store.