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Apple's Shazam App Gets Better Integration With Spotify and Apple Music

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Apple today updated its Shazam app, improving the syncing feature for adding songs identified with Shazam to music apps like Apple Music and Spotify.

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According to the release notes for the new 18.9 update, Shazam will include songs recognized with the Music Recognition feature on the iPhone and iPad to the dedicated My Shazam Tracks playlist that's available for Spotify and Apple Music users.

Prior to now, songs identified manually with the Shazam app were added to this list, but songs recognized using the built-in Control Center option were not included.
We've made syncing songs to Apple Music and Spotify better than ever! Shazam will now include songs found via Music Recognition in Control Centre, Siri, and Shortcuts to your "My Shazam Tracks" playlist in Apple Music or Spotify.

Simply toggle "Sync your songs" off and on in Shazam settings to re-sync all your previously discovered songs from the Shazam app. You may need to reopen Spotify to see the playlist refreshed

Don't forget to keep your Shazam History safe and in sync between your devices. To do this, turn on iCloud sync in Shazam Settings.
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To update songs that are synced, Apple says that users should toggle "Sync your songs" off and on in the Shazam app settings, a move that will re-sync all previously discovered songs.

Shazam can be downloaded from the App Store for free. [Direct Link]

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How about allowing syncing to Apple Music and Spotify AT THE SAME TIME?

Currently you can only have one or the other, so it's not possible to have a "My Shazam Tracks" playlist updated simultaneously on both services.
 
Great now fix the issue that sometimes says to join for two free months of Apple music when I tap to open a song in Apple music. Despite Shazam and iTunes being authed to one another.
 
Still doesn't work with Control Centre. Shouldn't have got my hopes up.

Just to be clear, there is a change. You used to have to open the Shazam app, go into settings and toggle "iCloud Sync" every time to get the playlist to update. Now you just have to open the app to get it to update.

Just identifying the song from Control Center widget doesn't update the playlist.
 
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Spotify syncing is completely broken for me. I connected my account a couple of years ago but only 2 songs somehow got added to the album.
 
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Volk.JP said:
Spotify syncing is completely broken for me. I connected my account a couple of years ago but only 2 songs somehow got added to the album.
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Will it at least open Apple music from a song? Mine seems to have stopped that as of today. I hate Apple software quality
 
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detailsofmylife.net said:
Yes it does, I just tried it.

And thank goodness, this update is well overdue. Now I can actually integrate this with Shortcuts.
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Glad it works for you, doesn't work for me though. I wish Apple would spend more time on making sure their software worked for everyone. It's not like there's any real variation in their devices that their software would need to account for with a feature like this.
 
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detailsofmylife.net said:
Yes it does, I just tried it.

And thank goodness, this update is well overdue. Now I can actually integrate this with Shortcuts.
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Well you're half right there chief. It works on my work phone but not my personal one. Which is odd considering the work phone is locked down to some extent via MDM
 
Chungry said:
Will it at least open Apple music from a song? Mine seems to have stopped that as of today. I hate Apple software quality
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I actually use it with YouTube Music. They don't make it very clear, but when you've found a song result, the three dots menu has links to send directly to every music app detected on your phone. Actually worked well last time I tried it.

Of course they are trying to push you to Apple Music, but as usual these days, if you can navigate the deceptive design you can get it to do the thing you want rather than the thing they want you to do.
 
CarAnalogy said:
I actually use it with YouTube Music. They don't make it very clear, but when you've found a song result, the three dots menu has links to send directly to every music app detected on your phone. Actually worked well last time I tried it.
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YouTube Music also has built-in music recognition, which has the benefit that it also works with humming or singing a melody you remember.

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I swear, Apple can still knock it out of the park from time to time, but little things like this take nearly a decade. Still waiting to be able to quickly delete messages from the Apple Watch without swiping one by one.
 
Great to see this finally. Was very convenient to use Shazam from control center but was sorely missing this capability. I had stopped using Shazam from control center. Will update and see.
 
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I kind of like that Shazam History is tucked away in control center. I don't add all the songs I discover, we I can just select which ones I add to my library instead of having a separate Shazam playlist in the Music app. Hopefully they retain both options.
 
klasma said:
YouTube Music also has built-in music recognition, which has the benefit that it also works with humming or singing a melody you remember.

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Didn't know that actually. But I tend to keep permissions of Google apps limited. I'd rather use the system access to the microphone than give it to Google. Probably being ridiculous. But you're not paranoid if they really are out to get you!
 
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Didn't know that actually. But I tend to keep permissions of Google apps limited. I'd rather use the system access to the microphone than give it to Google. Probably being ridiculous. But you're not paranoid if they really are out to get you!
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I hesitated a bit myself, but in the end they can’t realistically run it secretly in the background, and iOS visibly indicates microphone use by an app.
 
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I hesitated a bit myself, but in the end they can’t realistically run it secretly in the background, and iOS visibly indicates microphone use by an app.
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Intellectually I know this to be true as well. But I also know that Facebook infamously has an entire team of hackers whose only job is to circumvent iOS as much as possible. I would imagine Google has something similar. They both just seem too eager for me to grant them microphone permission.
 
How is this new?

This feature has been working for me for years now… I almost always use the Control Center Music Recognition option to Shazam stuff and it adds to the “My Shazam Tracks” in Apple Music
 
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