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Does Shazam use the native mic now?

ZEEN0j said:
Shazam uses the phones microphone
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Really? That doesn't make much sense if the phone's in my pocket.

I use Shazam a lot in public places like bars or clubs and it works good on the iPhone if I hold the phone in my hand with the mic pointing to any sound source aka speaker. I doubt it would pick up something with all the background noise when in the pocket.
 
Thai said:
I just use SIRI, which in turn uses Shazam, on WATCH.
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Wait, that even makes less sense. The same app uses the phone's mic when activated by a touch click but uses the watch's mic when activated through Siri? What gives?
 
Siri uses Shazam natively. Apple apparently has contract or agreement with Shazam. No need for the Shazam app to be on either phone or watch.
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Rok73 said:
Wait, that even makes less sense. The same app uses the phone's mic when activated by a touch click but uses the watch's mic when activated through Siri? What gives?
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No. You can use your Watch separately to identify song via Siri.

You can use your iPhone to identify song via Siri.

Siri uses Shazam to identify songs. No need to have Shazam app.
 
Thai said:
Siri uses Shazam natively. Apple apparently has contract or agreement with Shazam. No need for the Shazam app to be on either phone or watch.
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No. You can use your Watch separately to identify song via Siri.

You can use your iPhone to identify song via Siri.

Siri uses Shazam to identify songs. No need to have Shazam app.
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When I try to Shazam with Siri on the watch, it asks me to take out my phone.
 
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Thai said:
Sorry, you are correct. I remembered incorrectly. But, yeah, Siri on phone uses Shazam...you do NOT need the app.
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Right, but the whole point was that we want the ability to identify songs with just the watch, without having to use the microphone on the phone. Even though watchOS 2.0 give the ability to use the microphone it appears that no apps take advantage of this native support.
 
TRICKorDEVICE said:
Right, but the whole point was that we want the ability to identify songs with just the watch, without having to use the microphone on the phone. Even though watchOS 2.0 give the ability to use the microphone it appears that no apps take advantage of this native support.
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I installed Shazaam on the watch and have used several times, although it's a little slow. I believe it uses the watch mic, because my phone was in my pocket.
 
douglasf13 said:
I installed Shazaam on the watch and have used several times, although it's a little slow. I believe it uses the watch mic, because my phone was in my pocket.
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Very cool. Would you mind testing it by placing your phone somewhere else and see if it still works?
 
CONFIRMED! Just tested the app. I put the app in GLANCES. Played Youtube music on my laptop. iPhone far corner of room. Played music quietly on laptop. Watch picked it up right away. :) Tried several songs...all 100% correct.

Shazam app on iPhone CLOSED (and iPhone sleep) while testing above. I did have to allow Shazam to use microphone on iPhone, which also allows it to use Watch mic.
[doublepost=1459545516][/doublepost]BUT, it does need iPhone to be connected to it. When i put AIRPLANE mode on iPhone, Shazam on Watch does not work, even when Watch is connected to Wifi.
 
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Thai said:
CONFIRMED! Just tested the app. I put the app in GLANCES. Played Youtube music on my laptop. iPhone far corner of room. Played music quietly on laptop. Watch picked it up right away. :) Tried several songs...all 100% correct.

Shazam app on iPhone CLOSED (and iPhone sleep) while testing above. I did have to allow Shazam to use microphone on iPhone, which also allows it to use Watch mic.
[doublepost=1459545516][/doublepost]BUT, it does need iPhone to be connected to it. When i put AIRPLANE mode on iPhone, Shazam on Watch does not work, even when Watch is connected to Wifi.
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Nice!!!

Thanks for doing that!
 
When I Shazam with my watch I get a red bar at the top on my phone. I thought that meant it was using my phone. It had the same behaviors before the app got native as well.
 
ZEEN0j said:
When I Shazam with my watch I get a red bar at the top on my phone. I thought that meant it was using my phone. It had the same behaviors before the app got native as well.
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Anyone else able to test this?
 
What verbiage exactly are you saying to get the Apple Watch to id a song? I always get it to tell me to use my phone.
 
I was under the impression that the Apple Watch could not natively use Siri to identify songs.
 
Siri also tells me to do it on my phone. And I get the bar when the phone is unlocked. You don't see it on the lock screen.
 
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I just tried it with my phone across the room and playing a song on lower volume (so the phone wouldn't hear it) it said "couldn't identify song". No matter what song I tried, it said that. So I'm thinking it's actually using the phone's microphone
 
It uses the iPhones mic.

I don't think the watch is capable of listening to, and analysing, the music without relying on the iPhone. The SDK doesn't support such things.

Maybe the Apple Watch 2 will unlock these sorts of capabilities for developers.
 
Weird. I get mixed results. Sometimes it works. Sometimes I get "cannot identify song". The Watch does not analyze...so, is it just relaying the music to iPhone? It does use the Watch mic I believe. Because at times, the Watch will say that iPhone is now listening (when it could not identify the song on Watch).
 
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