heardontv.com lists which songs were played on television and in which episodes. The idea is simple: if you listen to a song on TV and you like it, you can easily buy/download it. The site entirely relies on users contributing the names of tracks, so therefore it is far from complete at any point.
The site only seems to list new shows. For example, Friends isn’t listed but My Name is Earl is. I’d love to see ’90s and ’80s shows listed, but unfortunately they are not. Currently, there are about 25 shows on the site but I guess that is understandable as its userbase would be unlikely to have the capability to support any more.
The site also is interesting as it allows you to log-in through your Yahoo! log-in, however, I think it’d be better if it employed a better SSO (single sign-on) such as OpenID or sxip.
The design of heardontv as it is extremely light and its use of yellow is tasteful but more unusual than the likes of blue. I also think its integration with other sites is good, especially with radioblogclub but also with Amazon, iTunes and Real.
Overall, this site is an interesting idea but it needs a larger userbase for it to become a good resource if increased in size and added more shows.
Hi Joe,
Thanks for blogging about heardontv. We followed up on your suggestion and just added support for OpenID to heardontv!
Cheers,
-fred
What was the name of the classical song that was played on the preview before last weeks episode of lost. You also hear it on hockey playoff commerical. It souds like dueling violins