Shazam Turns 20 (apple.com) 12
Apple: Shazam turns 20 today, and as of this week, it has officially surpassed 70 billion song recognitions. A mainstay in popular culture, the platform has changed the way people engage with music by making song identification accessible to everyone. For more than 225 million global monthly users, to "Shazam" is to discover something new. [...] With its continued commitment to innovation over the past two decades, Shazam is pioneering new ways to bring fans closer to the music and artists they love with new tools like the concert discovery feature, which spotlights concert information and tickets on sale for shows nearby, simply by Shazaming a song, or by searching for it in the Shazam app or website.
I started using it, but then.... (Score:3)
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Google's one recognises a lot of stuff that Shazam doesn't. If you have a Pixel phone it can do it locally without any data being sent anywhere.
Recording identifier (Score:2)
Shazam works by looking at the rhythm of a track, so it's not very good at identifying a song, just specific recordings of songs.
I'm honestly surprised to hear that it's still going; I've not heard anyone reference it in years and years.
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Re-defining "users" I see. (Score:3)
"...For more than 225 million global monthly users.."
Even if I had the app downloaded (which I don't), I would not consider myself a "user" for something I might have used once a quarter, even in my music-listening prime.
Monthly users? Seriously? Why? The same Top-20 songs are on constant replay everywhere you go, just as they've always been. Is memory becoming just as bad as attention span or something?
(Music artist) “You know you’ve got something special if you see the Shazam stats moving.”
Oh yeah. Nothing quite says you've hit it big like the stats from the Who-the-hell-IS-this app...
App became obnoxious (Score:2)
I used it for a while, but quit when it became difficult to tap on anything that was not an ad, and when it started to spam me with notifications.
These days, there's no need for a separate app. Just ask Google what song is playing, and it does the same thing, and maybe better.
Other Shazam (Score:1)
Still falls short (Score:2)
I find that it still fails to recognize, or misidentifies, at least 50% of old recordings.
Piano Music (Score:1)
Piano music (Score:1)