Jeez how old are you? I’m 52 now and I still Shazam songs when I’m out and there’s music playing. I find a lot of stuff that was popular when I was in my 30’s but was too busy working to keep up with. Plus some current music is pretty fun. I also have the music identification feature on my Google Pixel that is always on and is pretty cool, too. I can’t imagine listening to the same music over and over for the rest of my life.
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Apple Completes Shazam Acquisition, App Will Soon Become Ad-Free
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I think he meant that Apple bought Shazam. Not the users.
I’m a lot older than 30 and I still listen to new music. I haven’t used Shazam in a while because in a lot of the services I listen to I get the song and band name without needing Shazam. But occasionally I’ll hear a song on local radio and try to get my phone out and use it before the song is stopped or the dj talks over the end of the song.
I’ll listen to pop or rock or bluegrass and not just old stuff but current tunes. I listen to a lot of old big band and jazz from the early 1930’s on, I listen to some hip-hop, some rap, Standards singers like Michael Buble and Harry Connic Jr and classical music.
Modern country is about the only music I really don’t listen to, but there are probably songs there that I would like.
I guess I'm just boring, lol. I don't care a lot for the music nowadays. I'll be 34 early next year. I know that I'm not actually old but I'm just starting to feel old. I work at a university so the students make me feel this way, lol.
Knowing Apple’s greed this is the beginning of the end of Spotify integration.
Well, they have Apple Music on Android, and Shazam links into that. I'd say no.
Also, the data they get from Shazam has to be quite valuable.
It is sad Apple a tech company can't fix Siri. Shortcuts is not even builded by Apple. It was just another acquisition.
I see this as a play for Apple to discover further what people are interested in and use that to curate playlists and content directed to the end user individually, but all through Apple Music. Ultimately, the "add to Spotify Playlist" will go away and probably sooner than us Spotify users wish. I imagine that Apple will keep the app available for Andriod as a way to lure users to come over to Apple music and then iPhone.
siri was also an acquisition. What's your point?
You got it backwards: you already paid for an hardware product and will get a better service with Shazam integrated at system level. You are not the product here.
That does not guarantee the acquired service would become free. By your logic, Apple acquiring Beats Music should have made Apple Music a free service.
It's family sharing, not friends sharing. Most families are OK with using one credit card for all their iTunes purchases.
I get where you're coming from, but I have to say for me it's the complete opposite. I've had more than 20 years to listen to my favorites, and while I still do, there are few better feelings than when I discover a new band or artist that sparks that excitement that pretty much only music can set off inside me. If it's of any importance I'm closer to 40 than 30, so by someone's standards I'm probably already ancient, but seeing as how listening to good tunes has a rejuvenating effect, I don't feel a day over 18!
I've noticed that I Shazam stuff about daily while watching TV and films for example. There's always music playing, and when something catches my ear it's nice to be able to identify it instantly and get to know the artist better.
Oh my goodness! I’m old enough to be your mom! But because you are so delightfully curmudgeonly sometimes, I’ve always thought of you as someone my age. Though I do recall now you telling us before about being at the university and feeling old amongst the students.
I’m sort of the opposite, the kids keep me young and in the loop. I was actually friends with my daughter’s best friend before they became friends. I was the other girl’s chaperone on some school trips and we hit it off with our similar senses of humor. She thinks of me as sort of her aunt now and sends me funny video clips of the craziest non mainstream music I’ve ever heard. She likes to blast her music on the car ride home from school and I threaten her with the most awful 80’s music I can find. She’s into K-Pop groups in a big way.
But I do like being “old”. I’m not into age defying or trying to dress or act like a teenager or hang out with these girls as if I were one of them. That would be really awkward and creepy. I enjoy all these youthful current things as a good mother/aunt figure should. Which is harder to explain than I thought it would be.
Maybe things will change for me once I get past this busy phase of my life. We've had two kids in the past few years and have bought and moved and bought another house and added a downstairs kitchen for my wife's daycare and a studio space for me but I feel like things are finally starting to settle down. Either that or I'm just not hearing much that I've liked the past few years and maybe that will change. I feel like I listen to less variety of music after switching to Apple Music after Rdio went out of business, so maybe Apple just sucks at recommending things, lol. My wife and I don't get out of the house as much as we used to, and we have to be more careful about what music we're playing with little kids in the car. Maybe someday.
Sounds like you got lot going on at the moment! I can appreciate shifting priorities with a plate that full, and as you said, maybe you'll get back to it once everything winds down some. Although with two kids that age that can take about 18 years. Or so I'm told.
Oh yeah...I almost forgot. I went through something similar at your age. I mean, wow, I was working so hard I actually missed out on the pop culture favorites of my generation: Seinfeld and Friends. It’s always so awkward when people my age make references from those shows and I react blankly and they’re shocked I didn’t watch those shows. I caught Seinfeld here and there so at least I know about Soup Nazi.
I feel like my 30’s really slipped away from me. In my 40’s especially, tv and music were not a big part of our lives for the same reason they’re not in yours, we got sick of diving for the remote because the commercials were often so obscene for a family with small children. And lyrics that we took for granted in pop music had us a bit surprised when we realized they might reach young ears. My 30’s- mid 40’s were spent with music from “The Backyardigans.”
Lol, I discovered “Sugarland” and Solange Knowles from seeing them on Jack’s Big Music Show on Nick Jr.