Shazam

by Android Tapp Dec 9, 2008 8:42 PM – 23 Comments

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Shazam. Hear a song you don’t know? Shazam identifies it instantly. Unlimited, no Ads. Tag songs as often as you like. NEW: LyricPlay™ :See full-screen lyrics that play in time to the music you’re tagging – learn the lyrics you thought you knew. Encore is the quickest and easiest way to discover more about music. Hold your phone up to the music to identify a track, buy it, watch the video, get the lyrics, play in Spotify and more!

Price: Free, ~$4.86

AndroidTapp.com Android App Review:

Pros & Cons:

Pros

Identify music by allow your phone to listen to it; you sing it, hum it, type it for voice search it!
Get a wealth of information about tagged artists: tour, social networks, bio, related songs, YouTube videos, purchase song options, and more

Cons

Not every song can be found however Shazam’s digital library is vastly growing

Usefulness:

Shazam for Android is one of the most useful & coolest apps you can find. It delivers functionality better on mobile than on a desktop. I absolutely fell in love with the app when seeing it on the Apple iPhone TV Commercial; an app powerful enough to listen to music and tell you what song it is… uncanny!

Ease of Use:

Couldn’t be more simple: Launch App, Listen, It Tags… (If it doesn’t, chances are they’ll be adding it soon. Shazam recently added over 2 million songs to its library)

Features:

Shazam has 2 main features: Tag Now and My Tags. Tag Now allows you to easily listen to a song and it returns the song name, artist, album, record label, artist MySpace page, link to buy the song/album in Amazon’s MP3 store, and YouTube video (if available). How cool is that!?!. My Tags shows a list of songs you’ve tagged for revisiting later. (You can delete Tags as well)

Shazam introduced Shazam Encore learn more about the differences in the free and paid versions. If you like this app you’ll also like SoundHound.

: Shazam

: Shazam My Tags

: Shazam Recommendations

: Shazam Friends

: Shazam Widget

: Shazam LyricPlay

: Shazam Home

: Shazam Listening

: Shazam Song Tagged

: Shazam Integration with YouTube

: Shazam Integration with Amazon MP3 Store

: Shazam My Tags

Frequently Used:

I find myself having my G1 ready when watching prime time TV shows, they play a lot of new and interesting songs and this a great way to test Shazam. The other night I was watching Grey’s Anatomy and faintly heard what I thought was Kayne West singing with the Auto-Tune at a poignant moment in the show. Launched Shazam, listened, sure enough… it was! Kayne’s Street Lights.

Interface:

The user interface is slick and easy to use. Likes the wet floor graphics on black The “listening” circular motion graphic is cool too!

AndroidTapp.com Rating

AndroidTapp.com Rating! (4.5 out of 5)

Should you Download Shazam? Listening… Analyzing… Tagged! YES!!

Developer: Shazam Entertainment Ltd

Tags: Android Apps, AndroidTapp.com App Review, LyricPlay, Mobile Music, MP3, Music Detection, Music Discovery App, Music Indentification, Shazam

Categorised in: Entertainment, Music, Tools

23 Comments

By FATTONE203 on December 18, 2008 at 11:53 am:

DIS SHIT HAAAAAAAAAAAARD!!!!!!!!!

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- By jared on January 17, 2010 at 6:05 pm:
  
  what is that suppose to mean speak English not Ebonics
  
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By Android Tapp on December 18, 2008 at 12:55 pm:

Curious why you say it’s “Hard”??? This could’nt be one of the easiest Android Apps.

You literally, Launch, Listen, Get Results…

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- By Aj on February 13, 2011 at 11:28 am:
  
  I think they meant it’s “cool” when they said it’s “hard”, not it’s hard to use
  
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By whet0003 on January 2, 2009 at 11:33 am:

Awesome app. I love it.

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By j on January 5, 2009 at 8:09 pm:

hahaha “hard” is slang for “cool”

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By Chad on March 4, 2009 at 7:02 am:

I wish I could queue music fingerprints when I’m not online and get the results later. Now, it says “Can’t find it” and throws away the data when it can’t reach its servers. It should instead say “I can’t call home, but I saved the sound and will try later, if you want.”

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By kevin on March 26, 2009 at 9:52 pm:

I think it’s an awesome app. Though, it doesn’t find about half the songs that I’ve tried to tag. Though, like you mention, they keep adding songs to their database. I think it may be a connection issue sometimes also. But, all in all, it’s really cool. It’s another app where I can impress my buddies with.

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By Fawad on June 23, 2009 at 1:39 am:

Probably the app I am impressed with the most.

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By TFantasy on November 5, 2009 at 6:41 pm:

yeah, it barely takes up any space too…

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By ClayG on November 7, 2009 at 9:55 am:

I wish it would work for new Motorola Droid. But it doesn’t work. It immediately says “sorry, try again?” when you attempt to Tag Now.

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By Lady Di on December 19, 2009 at 7:36 pm:

I tried to do a Caribbean artist song and it failed miserably. It actually is a pretty good app truth be told.

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By Glenn on January 4, 2010 at 12:39 pm:

So useful and so accurate. Brilliant!

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By E-Dawg on January 20, 2010 at 3:21 am:

Nice app with good functionality, one of my faves already and I’ve only had the Droid for a week.

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By doublejnyc on March 10, 2010 at 12:14 pm:

I wish they had a feature where you could email yourself the tag list. Most other Android apps have this function. Ughh!

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By Brad on March 31, 2010 at 6:17 am:

This is truly one of the most used apps I’ve ever downloaded! I use this app daily and am amazed by it’s accuracy!

HTC Hero user

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By Heinz on April 22, 2010 at 10:48 am:

I used this app on my nokia phone.. now im gonna use it on my android phone

COOL! for me it detects most popular names. some it dosnt but a lot of them it does :D:D:D

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By B on April 26, 2010 at 4:04 pm:

it says to scan that barcoad when you click download… does anyone know exactly how to do this? just got my backflip today and i still havent completely figured it out lol

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- By Android Tapp on April 26, 2010 at 4:14 pm:
  
  We offer 2 ways to quick link to apps in the Android Market:
  
  1. If you have Barcode Scanner or ShopSavvy already installed, use either to scan the QR Codes above the “Download” links
  2. If you visit the same page on your Android phone you can just click “Download” to go to the Market and download the app.
  
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By Kenji O. on April 30, 2010 at 10:13 am:

Geez, it’s apps like this that make me realize how far we’ve really come. It’s really amazing what this can do. Plus saying “Shazam” is really fun. SHAZAM!

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By JoAnn on June 3, 2010 at 4:34 pm:

Disappointed that it is not better integrated with Amazon. Should be able just to click and have Amazon do the rest rather than go through the web site from the browser.

Amazon could make a killing with this app with a simple “Buy this” button. They should cut a deal or buy Shazam outright.

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By NerdRN on January 15, 2011 at 3:12 pm:

Shazam’s ok, but SOUNDHOUND is far superior, faster, and has a better UI.

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