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Apple's Shazam Music Discovery Service Surpasses 1 Billion Shazams Per Month
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Have used the app for ages and love it. Have to say it's definitely oriented towards Apple Music users and makes buying songs / albums difficult nowadays (speaking from use this morning). Use Shazam, know the song or album I want, have to manually hop over into iTunes and do searches, which often don't return anything.
(Sweet Dreams album by Purple Cat today for example...a direct search turned up nothing even though Shazam identified it and linked to Apple Music almost instantly...took alot of search variations before I finally got it in iTunes). Have noticed this more and more recently. Definitely makes me suspicious that this friction is by design (to push the impatient user into the quick easy instant pay for access option, why else remove the buy buttons right?).
Where there used to be buy or Apple Music buttons in Shazam, its now only Apple Music buttons i.e. rent access only now, which makes me sad.
(Sweet Dreams album by Purple Cat today for example...a direct search turned up nothing even though Shazam identified it and linked to Apple Music almost instantly...took alot of search variations before I finally got it in iTunes). Have noticed this more and more recently. Definitely makes me suspicious that this friction is by design (to push the impatient user into the quick easy instant pay for access option, why else remove the buy buttons right?).
Where there used to be buy or Apple Music buttons in Shazam, its now only Apple Music buttons i.e. rent access only now, which makes me sad.
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I'm not sure but this is probably more fair. Right now Google if I understand it correctly just searches the song on Google, which then leads to various links including YouTube, Spotify, and yes even Apple Music.
So essentially, Google's way is more fair, Apple's way of forcing you into Apple Music is anticompetitive.
Me, too, when playing music through the HomePod, but sometimes I'd like to see the lyrics and Shazam's good for that (most of the time I use it).
You know what's embarrassing though? I sometimes forget the name of the Shazam app. For some reason, Shazam just isn't the name that comes to mind when I want to use it. Which is why I also wind up just asking Siri. I need to make the app more accessible on my phone
It’s spelled Purrple Cat in both Apple Music and in iTunes (is it spelled that way in Shazam?), but the search term “purple cat” does link you to “purrple cat” in Apple Music, but not in iTunes. I think the artist may have some control over what search terms are used for their music, though. You might want to use their “Contact Us” page to let them know about the difference.
I had this problem too, I deleted the app as I couldn't see why I needed it anymore if I could just Shazam from the control centre - one night out I Shazamed loads of songs to check out the next day - but then in the morning realised there was no record of them anywhere.
I'm not 100% sure but I have the app, I barely use it, but when I Shazam it auto-adds to my Shazam playlist that appears in Apple Music. I love that option so much and use it for songs that I know as well.
I’m guessing there’s a dialog box that shows up when you install Shazam giving it the ability to save that information AND create the playlist in Apple Music. However, shouldn’t the same thing be able to be done via a Shortcut? That way, you don’t have to have the app AND still have the results saved.
I switched to Soundhound years ago and never use Shazam, can't remember the reason why, but there was a reason.
Best thing that could happen.. Apple cleaned out all the ads.. Bit late for me now,,as I switched to MusicID... I don't use these services enough to switch back
The unharnessed potential of Shazam + iOS is a real shame. Bake Shazam into the operating system and allow it to remember songs during important events (based on photos, location, and calendar), and have Apple Music curate playlists based on these, etc etc.
Download the application. It'll place songs in the Playlist you want. It really is a very usable app.
Not so sure here as the OP was not searching with the name of the group, they left out one ‘r’.
Agreed.
Seeing so many early iterations of Shazam’s core function in competitors come and gone (Sony for example), this is a pleasant combination. The fact I can use my watch to pickup songs playing around me so discretely is nice, no need to pull out my iPhone.
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Allow this to work over AirPod Pro’s listening to a movie on AppleTV or other mediums.
Are you sure that’s the case? Haven’t used or seen anyone use Shazam in a long time — so it was a bit surprising to see that many “Shazams” per month (that’s the first time I ever said “Shazams and hopefully the last 😀). Yet if it’s built into Siri then the billion number makes more sense.
Betamax vs VHS — it isn’t necessarily who/what is first or even best. What’s most important is who/what is backing you 😀
The success of the discovery algo is the very definition of subjective. Pandora is bottom on my list for My Stations song discovery. But that result for me is certainly going to vary from user to user.