Qual é?
Today I tried the [Qual é](http://quale.pt/) service. Heard a song I didn’t knew while watching TV, dialled 12266 and pointed the mic to the TV speaker. After 25 seconds or so the other side hang up and a few more seconds later I was receiving a SMS with the artist and song name. Impressive, and a very reasonable price (1 euro).
I can imagine myself using this more often, as it happens to me all the time wanting to know what I’m listening to, on the TV and on the radio. Most of the time it’s just trash I don’t care about, but there are times when I come across some gems. Once I emailed a [Antena 3](http://www.rtp.pt/wportal/antena3/) DJ to know what a particular song was, and within hours I got a reply saying it was Beth Orton, “Thinking about tomorrow”. Very neat that they not only read email, but replied a useful answer as well.
This time it was someone called Mandalay with “Beautiful”.
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That’s a neat service. I could use it many times back home but I don’t really think they would come up with the right answer since I always find bands/artists that can’t be found anywhere :s