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SiriusHardware · 2nd Jan 2019, 7:14 pm

At one time, you could hear a snatch of a tune you didn't know, remember the basic notes, go into a proper record shop, hum a few notes of it badly and the assistant, if they were any good, would recognise it and tell you what it was.

...But now there's Shazam for that.

HMV did once let me put a (Van Halen) CD on and spin through the whole CD looking for a track I'd seen 30 seconds of on TV - probably on MTV. I did find it - (Don't Tell Me from the album Balance). Of course I bought the CD there and then, not least because they had been so helpful.

2nd Jan 2019, 7:14 pm	#59
SiriusHardware Dekatron Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Newcastle, Tyne and Wear, UK. Posts: 11,585	Re: HMV in administration. At one time, you could hear a snatch of a tune you didn't know, remember the basic notes, go into a proper record shop, hum a few notes of it badly and the assistant, if they were any good, would recognise it and tell you what it was. ...But now there's Shazam for that. HMV did once let me put a (Van Halen) CD on and spin through the whole CD looking for a track I'd seen 30 seconds of on TV - probably on MTV. I did find it - (Don't Tell Me from the album Balance). Of course I bought the CD there and then, not least because they had been so helpful.