{"id":3608,"date":"2015-08-03T12:43:25","date_gmt":"2015-08-03T12:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/?p=3608"},"modified":"2021-09-17T14:01:06","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T13:01:06","slug":"the-surprisingly-easy-app-of-the-week-whosampled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/08\/03\/the-surprisingly-easy-app-of-the-week-whosampled\/","title":{"rendered":"The Surprisingly Easy App of the Week: WhoSampled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every week, we bring you an app that\u2019ll make your life easier. In this week\u2019s post, we\u2019re going to help you find out who your favourite singers and bands have ripped off with WhoSampled.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>What is it?<\/h4>\n<p>WhoSampled is a \u201d\u02dcmusic DNA discovery\u2019 app, which &#8211; in simple terms &#8211; means you can use it to find out which tracks an artist has sampled in a song, as well as finding cover versions and remixes. There\u2019s over 290,000 tracks on the database, so its fairly comprehensive.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>Why is it surprisingly easy?<b> <\/b><\/h4>\n<p>The information WhoSampled provides is ridiculously precise, detailing the song sampled, which part was sampled, and the time at which you can find the sample. You can even stream both songs and compare them.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>The best bit<\/h4>\n<p>You\u2019ll become a fountain of music trivia. Did you know James Brown is the most sampled artist ever? Or that <i>Change The Beat <\/i>by Beside and Fab Five Freddy is the most sampled song ever?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZqauvQkC6VQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also handy if you hear a bit in a song (and lets face it, most songs are loaded with samples these days) and can\u2019t figure out where it was sampled from.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>The downside<\/h4>\n<p>You\u2019ll realise all music is derived from about 2 or 3 songs.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/gb\/app\/whosampled\/id529092671?mt=8\">Download WhoSampled on iOS<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.whosampled&amp;hl=en\">Download WhoSampled on Android<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Click below for an instant price for your phone!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/sell-mobile-phones\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3555 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/phone-button.png\" alt=\"Phone Button\" width=\"299\" height=\"50\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every week, we bring you an app that\u2019ll make your life easier. In this week\u2019s post, we\u2019re going to help you find out who your favourite singers and bands have ripped off with WhoSampled. What is it? WhoSampled is a \u201d\u02dcmusic DNA discovery\u2019 app, which &#8211; in simple terms &#8211; &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":3609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199],"tags":[1558],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3608"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3608"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13066,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3608\/revisions\/13066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}