Does the cacophony of whistles, beeps and buzzes from your phone, tablet or computer seem about as incomprehensible as R2D2? Can't tell whether your house is ablaze, or if you just got mentioned on Twitter? Alert Tone Shazam would identify the known universe of default tones and let you know what made the sound and what it means, and as a bonus, maybe even how to shut that particular tone up.
-- velosapiens, Apr 23 2018

This is your best idea so far, [velo]. A lot of inexplicable noises come out of [IT].
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Apr 23 2018


See what I mean?
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Apr 23 2018


// Can't tell whether your house is ablaze, or if you just got mentioned on Twitter? //

If you don't understand the tones, then you deserve to burn. It saves the trouble of culling the technically incapable.
-- 8th of 7, Apr 23 2018


What if someone Tweets that your house is on fire?
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Apr 23 2018


Then you should have voted for someone who can tweet without inflaming the world.

Would Shazam strike a lightning bolt and turn you into Captain Marvel?
-- RayfordSteele, Apr 23 2018


Dentist shazam would be useful..... eeeeeeahhhh - ah - that's the exact sound of a distal, occlusal filling on an upper right T4.
-- xenzag, Apr 24 2018



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