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Thursday, July 06, 2006

TV Songs

Songtitle.Info: Music from TV Commercials (VIA digg)
An interesting little database featuring the songs that are used in commercials. Now you don't have to sit there and scratch you head and ask, "Who Did That?" The question "How come they can't invent an automatic mute button for commercials?" sadly remains unanswered. And more on the topic can be found at:
Wikipedia: List of songs featured in television commercials
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What's That Called?
|| JM, 11:19 AM

2 Comments:

I don't know if I actually WANT them to invent the commercial mute button. On one hand, I hate when ads increase the volume astronomically between shows. But on the other, I love advertising!

I'm so conflicted.
Anonymous Anonymous, at 8:57 PM  
It has been invented, sort of. It's a feature in some VCRs which looks for the blank frame or two between the program signal and the ad. As it tapes, it marks these times on the tape, so when you play it back, it automatically fast forwards through the commercial.
It works pretty well, but sometimes there would be no gap so it would fail, but still it was pretty cool.
Blogger EEShaman, at 10:50 PM  

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