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{{Quote|A commercial mobile phone based music identification service that also helps the government spy on you.|[[bawsaq.com]] description}} |
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| ā | '''ZiT''' ([[BAWSAQ]]: ZIT) is a music identification system available via the [[cell phone]] in ''[[Grand Theft Auto IV]]Ā ''and ''[[Grand Theft Auto V]]''. The player can buy stocks from |
+ | '''ZiT''' ([[BAWSAQ]]: ZIT) is a music identification system available via the [[cell phone]] in ''[[Grand Theft Auto IV]]Ā ''and ''[[Grand Theft Auto V]]''. The player can buy stocks from them at the [[Bawsaq.com]] website in ''GTA V''. |
==Description== |
==Description== |
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| ā | This system allows players to identify any song currently playing on their car radio by dialing '''948-555-0100'''; an automated |
+ | This system allows players to identify any song currently playing on their car radio by dialing '''948-555-0100''' ('''ZIT-555-0100'''); an automated message from [[Lazlow Jones|Lazlow]] will ask the protagonist to let him hear the song. They will then receive a text message providing the name of the song and the artist. If signed up to the [[Rockstar Games Social Club]], the player will also receive a real e-mail titled ''New Song From ZiT at Rockstar Games Social Club'' with the name of the song, artist and a link to iTunes. The song then will be saved in a ZiT Player to give a preview. |
==Advertisement== |
==Advertisement== |
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| ā | ZiT has an advertisement that can be heard in most [[Radio Stations in GTA IV|radio stations in GTA IV]]. |
+ | ZiT has an advertisement that can be heard in most [[Radio Stations in GTA IV|radio stations in ''GTA IV'']] and seen throughout various bus stops.. |
===Script=== |
===Script=== |
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==Gallery== |
==Gallery== |
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<gallery widths="120"> |
<gallery widths="120"> |
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| ā | Zit-BusShelter-GTAIV.jpg| |
+ | Zit-BusShelter-GTAIV.jpg|An official screenshot of a ZiT advert on a bus shelter. |
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==Trivia== |
==Trivia== |
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*ZiT cannot identify talk show segments or [[Independence FM|user music]]. |
*ZiT cannot identify talk show segments or [[Independence FM|user music]]. |
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| ā | *ZiT is similar to the real life Shazam app. |
+ | *ZiT is similar to the real life [[wp:Shazam (service)|Shazam app]]. |
*ZiT also helps the government spy on the people who use it. |
*ZiT also helps the government spy on the people who use it. |
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| ā | *ZiT |
+ | *ZiT does not appear in ''GTA V''Ā due to the new radio wheel which features shows the names of the song the stations are currently playing.Ā |
| + | *When the player downloads the DLC versions of ''[[The Lost and Damned]]'' and ''[[The Ballad of Gay Tony]]'', the radio stations will be updated to include both the music from ''GTA IV'', as well as the new music included with the DLCs. However, if the player calls ZiT in ''GTA IV'' to identify a song from ''TLAD'' or ''TBOGT'', it will fail to identify the song that is playing, but if they call ZiT in any of the two episodes to identify a song from the original game, it will successfully do so. |
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==External link== |
==External link== |
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*[http://www.rockstargames.com/IV/#?page=zit&content=interactive0 ZiT on Rockstar's website] |
*[http://www.rockstargames.com/IV/#?page=zit&content=interactive0 ZiT on Rockstar's website] |
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Revision as of 06:45, 18 January 2015
- Not to be confused with ZIP
ZiT (BAWSAQ: ZIT) is a music identification system available via the cell phone in Grand Theft Auto IV and Grand Theft Auto V. The player can buy stocks from them at the Bawsaq.com website in GTA V.
Description
This system allows players to identify any song currently playing on their car radio by dialing 948-555-0100 (ZIT-555-0100); an automated message from Lazlow will ask the protagonist to let him hear the song. They will then receive a text message providing the name of the song and the artist. If signed up to the Rockstar Games Social Club, the player will also receive a real e-mail titled New Song From ZiT at Rockstar Games Social Club with the name of the song, artist and a link to iTunes. The song then will be saved in a ZiT Player to give a preview.
Advertisement
ZiT has an advertisement that can be heard in most radio stations in GTA IV and seen throughout various bus stops..
Script
Announcer: Isn't it annoying when you hear a great song on the radio in Liberty City but the idiot DJ doesn't tell you who it is?
Male voice: Who was that?
Announcer: Find out the artist and the name of any song on the radio using ZiT.
Male voice: ZiT.
Announcer: The remarkable new service. Call us!
Second male voice: And we'll tell you what you're listening to based on a complicated listening system that also helps the government spy on you.
Third male voice: Go!
Announcer: Just dial ZIT-555-0100.
Female voice: 948-555-0100.
Announcer: And follow the instructions from our needy, washed-up celebrity.
Second male voice: So simple even a spotty teenager can do it.
Announcer: ZiT. Because we'll spot the record for you.
Gallery
Trivia
- ZiT cannot identify talk show segments or user music.
- ZiT is similar to the real life Shazam app.
- ZiT also helps the government spy on the people who use it.
- ZiT does not appear in GTA V due to the new radio wheel which features shows the names of the song the stations are currently playing.
- When the player downloads the DLC versions of The Lost and Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony, the radio stations will be updated to include both the music from GTA IV, as well as the new music included with the DLCs. However, if the player calls ZiT in GTA IV to identify a song from TLAD or TBOGT, it will fail to identify the song that is playing, but if they call ZiT in any of the two episodes to identify a song from the original game, it will successfully do so.