Apple's Shazam Control Center Music Recognition Feature Hits 1 Billion Songs Identified

[MacRumors]

With the launch of iOS 14.2, Apple introduced a new Shazam Music Recognition toggle for the Control Center, giving iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch users a quick and easy way to identify what music is playing.

Music Recognition has been a popular Control Center integration, and according to Apple, Shazam just surpassed 1 billion cumulative recognitions from the Control Center on iOS devices.

Compared to the standard Shazam app, Music Recognition is unique because it allows users to identify songs playing in their favorite apps, TV shows, and movies even while wearing headphones, a feature available in addition to the option to identify songs playing out loud.

The number one most Shazamed track from the Control Center is Bruno Mars' "Talking to the Moon," with a list of the top 10 Shazamed songs available below.

• "Talking To The Moon" - Bruno Mars
• "Astronaut In The Ocean" - Masked Wolf
• "MONTERO (Call Me By Your Name)" - Lil Nas X
• "Beggin" - Måneskin
• "Another Love" - Tom Odell
• "Runaway" - AURORA
• "Dick" - StarBoi3 Feat. Doja Cat
• "Arcade" - Duncan Laurence
• "Stay" - The Kid LAROI & Justin Bieber
• "drivers license" - Olivia Rodrigo

For those who do not already use Music Recognition, it can be added to the Control Center by opening up the Settings app and selecting the Control Center section. From there, scroll down and tap the "+" button next to the "Music Recognition" option that has the Shazam logo. Once added, users can access the Control Center and tap on the icon with the Shazam logo to identify a song that's playing.

Apple is improving Music Recognition in iOS 15 and going forward, it will automatically save a list of songs that users have discovered through the Control Center feature. The Music Recognition history can be viewed by long pressing on the Shazam Control Center icon on a device running iOS 15 or iPadOS 15.

Developers are also now able to take advantage of a ShazamKit API that allows Shazam's audio recognition technology to be integrated directly into apps, and the first apps with this functionality will launch this fall.

Article Link: Apple's Shazam Control Center Music Recognition Feature Hits 1 Billion Songs Identified

 

[mjschabow]

If only it worked more than 50% of the time. Especially in crowded bars.

 

[Nozuka]

Apple is improving Music Recognition in iOS 15 and going forward, it will automatically save a list of songs that users have discovered through the Control Center feature. The Music Recognition history can be viewed by long pressing on the Shazam Control Center icon on a device running iOS 15 or iPadOS 15.

can they not be automatically added to a playlist, like with the shazam app? or only accessible through control center?

 

[justperry]

The number one most Shazamed track from the Control Center is Bruno Mars' "Talking to the Moon," with a list of the top 10 Shazamed songs available below.

• "Talking To The Moon" - Bruno Mars
  
• "Astronaut In The Ocean" - Masked Wolf
  
• "MONTERO (Call Me By Your Name)" - Lil Nas X
  
• "Beggin" - Måneskin
  
• "Another Love" - Tom Odell
  
• "Runaway" - AURORA
  
• "Dick" - StarBoi3 Feat. Doja Cat
  
• "Arcade" - Duncan Laurence
  
• "Stay" - The Kid LAROI & Justin Bieber
  
• "drivers license" - Olivia Rodrigo

Developers are also now able to take advantage of a ShazamKit API that allows Shazam's audio recognition technology to be integrated directly into apps, and the first apps with this functionality will launch this fall.

Article Link: Apple's Shazam Control Center Music Recognition Feature Hits 1 Billion Songs Identified

Top 10 Shazamed tracks, they are all unknown to me, most are probably American artists if not all, pretty sure I need no Shazam for these songs, most likely none of my taste.

Developers use of a Shazamkit API, not a fan, they might record your conversation or whatnot.

 

[justperry]

If only it worked more than 50% of the time. Especially in crowded bars.

It works well, 100% more than 50%
But yeah, a crowded place with lots of background noise is (still) hard to recognize for computers, even with AI.

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

Oh wow! That’s impressive. Not going to lie. The whole system is very intelligent.

 

[JosephAW]

I don't like you can’t try again later when their music database is updated like sound hound. Also I do a control center Shazam and later open the Shazam app and it has no history and I lost what I was searching for.

 

[subjonas]

I use it pretty often and it works well as long as the music is reasonably audible. I’m surprised, though, when you tap on the song it opens in the Shazam website instead of Apple Music.

 

[MisterSavage]

Still remember how amazed I was the first time I saw Shazam in action.

 

[nvmls]

If only it worked more than 50% of the time. Especially in crowded bars.

Yea too crowded doesn't help, but otherwise it's been working pretty well for us.

 

[TheRdungeon]

Does anyone know how to currently access the history for the control center version of Shazam in ios14? It doesn't seem to integrate with the actual app at all which seems like a weird oversight

 

[nvmls]

Top 10 Shazamed tracks, they are all unknown to me, most are probably American artists if not all, pretty sure I need no Shazam for these songs, most likely none of my taste.

Yes same here, fresh reminder of how far I am from mainstream stuff 😅.

Last one it couldn't find from a popular artist: (likely due to being a versioned live cover )

 

[JDabney24]

I don't like you can’t try again later when their music database is updated like sound hound. Also I do a control center Shazam and later open the Shazam app and it has no history and I lost what I was searching for.

Thankfully iOS 15 fixes this. If you Haptic Touch on the icon on iOS 15, it opens a history of identified songs. I am on the beta currently and I have 20 songs identified in history so far.

 

[justperry]

Yes same here, fresh reminder of how far I am from mainstream stuff 😅.

Last one it couldn't find from a popular artist: (likely due to being a versioned live cover )

This is the first time I see this piece from Prince, what an amazing artist he was.
Thanks for posting the video.


Edit: The guy was one of the coolest artists, including fashion, except...Those boots....

 

[Techwatcher]

If only it worked more than 50% of the time. Especially in crowded bars.

It actually works really well for me. Even in noise polluted situations. I'd say it works like 95% of the time. Maybe you need a new phone.

 

[the3ye]

Thankfully iOS 15 fixes this. If you Haptic Touch on the icon on iOS 15, it opens a history of identified songs. I am on the beta currently and I have 20 songs identified in history so far.

Does it also automatically add tracks to Shazam Playlist on Apple Music? Shazam App has this feature, but since it doesn't sync with Control Center widget, no recognized tracks are added to the app/playlist on iOS 14

 

[NMBob]

I wish it would say which albums a song is on, instead of trying to get me to sign up for Apple Music.

 

[AVEGA]

Why do I need the Shazam app to do this when I can just tell Siri what's this song? Isn't it all mixed together

 

[ToomeyND]

This inability to see search history makes the app as it currently stands worthless. I'm not going to go searching for songs AFTER the app has recognized it while in a social setting. If I don't do it then and there, the identification is lost. It's so dumb. Nice that the entire phone needs an update for this to function as well as it's acquired app from 10 years ago.

Edit for clarity: I'm talking about the Shazam feature in the control center, not the Shazam app. There is no way to find the search history of what was discovered using the control center feature.

 

[_Spinn_]

I like having music recognition in the control center so I don't have to install the app.

 

[Populus]

Funny thing, I do have Shazam icon on my control center, and for some reason, when I need to quickly identify a song, I go to spotlight, search for the Shazam app, and launch the app. I completely ignore that Control Center button.

 

[rodimusprime]

In June the Shazam Control Centre ate up what I had left of monthly data (over 19.2GBs) because it was running on the background without me knowing 🤬

 

[MauiPa]

Love Shazam! Lots of good music in movie and TV soundtracks, Shazam and whoop, there it is!

 

[MauiPa]

This inability to see search history makes the app as it currently stands worthless. I'm not going to go searching for songs AFTER the app has recognized it while in a social setting. If I don't do it then and there, the identification is lost. It's so dumb. Nice that the entire phone needs an update for this to function as well as it's acquired app from 10 years ago.

Shazam is great, hardly "worthless". all my shazams are in a history, just scroll through them in the order you shammed. Seriously, this complaint of yours is confusing. Sorry it is too complicated for you. Maybe there is another app that works better for you

 

[Böhme417]

Funny thing, I do have Shazam icon on my control center, and for some reason, when I need to quickly identify a song, I go to spotlight, search for the Shazam app, and launch the app. I completely ignore that Control Center button.

I removed my control center button, because it has no link to the app. It keeps no history and doesn’t save to a playlist.