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New Shazam Feature Will Reveal the Most Popular Moment of a Song

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Shazam today announced it is rolling out a new Popular Segments feature that reveals exactly which part of a song is most popular with listeners.

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For example, the image above shows that the given song was most discovered around 30 to 35 seconds into the track during the preceding week. This was the moment in the song when the most people asked Shazam to identify the song.

More details about the feature:
Popular Segments spotlights the key moments within a track that drove the most Shazam activity within the past week. Available for top tracks ranking on Shazam's charts and based on Shazam tag volume, this interactive feature displays relative segment popularity throughout a song, allowing users to hover over the graph and reveal precise time markers and corresponding segments.
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Shazam says Popular Segments will provide both listeners and artists with helpful insights into what makes songs resonate.

The feature will begin rolling out today on the Shazam.com website across desktop and mobile platforms, according to Apple. The announcement did not indicate if the feature will be coming to the Shazam app on the iPhone and iPad.

Shazam is a popular music identification service that Apple acquired back in 2018, and it has Apple Music integration. In addition to being available on the web and as an app, Shazam powers a Recognize Music control in Control Center on the iPhone, iPad, and Mac. You can also use Shazam via Siri voice commands.

Last month, the Shazam app for iPhone was updated with a Liquid Glass design.

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Glad that 🍎 bought Shazam and is continuously improving it with additional integrations & features

I added this Shazam button to my lock screen & that’s pretty much the ONLY way that I’ve been accessing Shazam - because u don’t even need to find & open the Shazam app. You don’t even need to unlock your iPhone! It’s as easy as it possibly can be with this button:

 
AstroRexaur said:
So, from 5 mins songs, music industry went down to 2:30 and now it's just a small hook. No wonder why new artist are so disposable!
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Yes, and people in the other music thread a few weeks ago were insulted when someone said today’s music was mostly trash.

It is trash and designed specifically to get you to keep listening.
 
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What a useless feature. First you hear a song, decide you like it, realize that you can probably shazam it, try to shazam it, fail, get closer to whatever is playing it, try again. By then a whole minute could have gone by. This data is useless.
 
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Justin Cymbal said:
Glad that 🍎 bought Shazam and is continuously improving it with additional integrations & features

I added this Shazam button to my lock screen & that’s pretty much the ONLY way that I’ve been accessing Shazam - because u don’t even need to find & open the Shazam app. You don’t even need to unlock your iPhone! It’s as easy as it possibly can be with this button:

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why can't you use Siri to access Shazam, on Android phone, all you have to say is "ok Google Shazam this"
 
The most perfect chorus of all time*:

Amateur Hour goes on and on
When you turn pro you know
she'll lets you know
Amateur Hour goes on and on
When you turn pro you know
She tells you so

*I didn't say 'greatest.'
 
TheDevler said:
What a useless feature. First you hear a song, decide you like it, realize that you can probably shazam it, try to shazam it, fail, get closer to whatever is playing it, try again. By then a whole minute could have gone by. This data is useless.
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Exactly. Came here to say the same thing. I'll occasionally replay the closing credits of a TV show to some random spot so I Shazam the song.
 
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Does anyone else think that Shazam was better before Apple bought it?

It only recognizes original songs. Remember when they promised to recognize even humming? Now it can't recognize cover songs sung by local bands!! For goodness sake, use AI for that. Oh, wait a minute, Apple AI sûčks.
 
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How about we "think for ourselves" and have our own likes/dislikes/opinions?

It'd be nice to have tech just stop trying to do everything and be everything at every bloody moment.
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Yeah, I've always had a low opinion of all the attempts to "curate" content for me and this seems like an offshoot of that type of functionality. Besides, telling me what is "popular" does nothing because frankly, I don't give a **** what anyone else thinks about the music I choose to listen to (or pretty much any other art form). I like what I like and no explanation is necessary (or forthcoming, anyway). Taking in content from any art form is such an individual experience that I just don't get why anyone would want additional "input", especially from someone/something they don't even personally know.
 
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For example, the image above shows that the given song was most discovered around 30 to 35 seconds into the track during the preceding week. This was the moment in the song when the most people asked Shazam to identify the song.
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So the timing of the Shazam has no relation to how long it takes to reach for your phone in a bar or even discern a tune above the din of a crowd? Over-interpreting weak data.
 
TheDevler said:
What a useless feature. First you hear a song, decide you like it, realize that you can probably shazam it, try to shazam it, fail, get closer to whatever is playing it, try again. By then a whole minute could have gone by. This data is useless.
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Precisely my thought.
It is laughable that Apple think this data can help identifying the "most popular part of a song" and it leads me to believe that they know very little about music, humans and ,bizarrely, about the way people use Shazam on their devices.
 
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Interesting and insightful feature. Hopefully Apple will build this into the system level Shazam integration because I don't want an app for every little thing.
 
Justin Cymbal said:
Glad that 🍎 bought Shazam and is continuously improving it with additional integrations & features

I added this Shazam button to my lock screen & that’s pretty much the ONLY way that I’ve been accessing Shazam
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Not watched the video, but I also have a quick Shazam on my lockscreen. I also put a shortcut to the app (i.e. it actually opens the app, not just does the listening bit) in the control centre.

The trouble with just doing the music recognition part is it won't throw the song into the linked Apple Music playlist until the Shazam app is properly opened. At least, that's how it is for me.
 
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30-35 seconds? That sounds like the time it takes to pull out my phone and ask it to identify a song after realizing I wanted to know what it was.

That's not the first time I heard it…
 
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A good 30 seconds probably goes by from the time I find myself enjoying a song and wondering who sings it until I finally decide to launch Shazam. First you find yourself enjoying it then you play a little guessing game and finally give up and launch Shazam.
 
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Great! Now they will feed this info to AI which will make crappy canned music even MORE predictable. And Grammy artists will consult with these analyses to make pop music impossibly even worse than it already is.
 
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