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Shazam Now Supports Apple Music Classical

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Shazam was updated today with support for Apple Music Classical on the iPhone, allowing the two apps to work together for classical music.

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Launched in March, the Apple Music Classical app offers over five million classical music tracks, and is included with an Apple Music subscription.

The release notes for version 15.33 of the Shazam app:
You can now open classical songs from Shazam in the Apple Music Classical app. Simply Shazam or search for a classical song, tap the menu icon on the track page and select "Open in Classical."
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Apple acquired Shazam in 2018 for a reported $400 million and has since integrated the music identification service across its software platforms.

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Remember when. Siri search “what song is this?” yielded a notification style pop up with the name of the song and band and when you tapped it, it opened Music? Missed that one-touch efficiency.

While Siri search yields a pop up, tapping the pop up auto-launches Shazam instead of Music. It took several search & taps before I accidentally tapped the small, greyed out Music logo in the initial pop up. That, auto-launches Music. I’m surprised Apple has that hierarchy as the default instead of the other way around. Honestly: who wants to auto-launch Shazam?

Anyway… Bigger issues out there, for sure.
 
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For many, Shazam is either an old wizard able to grant a child superpowers... or that child who- after saying that word- becomes a Superman-like, adult-sized hero.

For a bit older crowd, Shazam is a favorite reaction word of Private First Class, formerly Wally gas station attendant, Gomer Pyle... also referencing the above when those characters were only known in comic books.

Unfortunately, the app with that name neither grants super powers nor fills in some spoken time with Andy, Barney and the Mayberry gang. Nevertheless, it is an impressive app and does have THAT great benefit. I wonder if it could identify some of those mountain songs by the Darling clan?


I've never been able to track down some of them "...good 'uns that can make Charlene cry."

Perhaps it needs some awareness marketing?
 
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I subscribe to only two Apple services -- the one-bump-up-the-staircase 50GB of iCloud storage for a buck a month, and an Apple Music subscription I started exactly and only because of Apple Classical.

Streaming music is a change of habit for me, because for classical Spotify meant "Pachelbel, then 'Appalachian Spring', then Pachelbel, then 'Appalachian Spring'..."

But I'm already in the process of doing what I hoped for: discovering pieces I didn't already know, and also works written this side of, say, 1990.

I do hope they expedite a MacOS version though.

Having said that, Shazam probably won't be able to distinguish individual recordings of the same work, and if it's the same tech that was under Apple Match, it gets confused about works that start very quietly.
 
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Spaceboi Scaphandre said:
It shocks me how there's so many people that don't know about Shazam and yet they always ask in Youtube comments what X song is in a video when I've hadn't needed to do that anymore since I can just use Shazam
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I'm aware of Shazam, and also aware that Apple purchased the service a while back. What I don't understand is why it doesn't appear to be installed by default (i.e. it's not a stock app).

Per the article, "Apple acquired Shazam in 2018...and has since integrated the music identification service across its software platforms" - however, that integration is definitely not obvious to a casual user.
 
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Shazam never works for me. Siri always identifies the song quickly. I just use Siri.
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Apparently, you are using Siri to locate that all-time classic song: "I don't know what you mean by <noun> (Here's what I found on the web for <noun>)"

Siri is spectacular at identifying that one. Nothing- not even Alexa, etc- finds that one more effectively. Somehow Siri seems to always know it is that one. Magical! ;)

I thought it was originally recorded by the Temptations or Doors. So I tried asking Siri: "Hey Siri: who recorded I don't know what you mean by <noun>. Here's what I found on the web for <noun>?" to figure it out.

Siri replied: "I don't know what you mean by I don't know what you mean by <noun>. Here's what I found on the web for <noun>... Here's what I found on the web for I don't know what you mean by <noun>. Here's what I found on the web for <noun>..." at which point a little puff of smoke shot out of the speaker holes.

So it may have been a Smokey Robinson and the Miracles song? Or the Chainsmokers? ;)
 
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gk_brown said:
I'm aware of Shazam, and also aware that Apple purchased the service a while back. What I don't understand is why it doesn't appear to be installed by default (i.e. it's not a stock app).

Per the article, "Apple acquired Shazam in 2018...and has since integrated the music identification service across its software platforms" - however, that integration is definitely not obvious to a casual user.
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Try checking "control center." Swipe down from upper right and click the Shazam icon. I can't remember if it is there by default or if I added it there when customizing control center. But that seems easiest way to manually access it.
 
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gk_brown said:
I'm aware of Shazam, and also aware that Apple purchased the service a while back. What I don't understand is why it doesn't appear to be installed by default (i.e. it's not a stock app).

Per the article, "Apple acquired Shazam in 2018...and has since integrated the music identification service across its software platforms" - however, that integration is definitely not obvious to a casual user.
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It is actually installed by default. The issue is it's button is not available by default, you gotta turn that on in the control center.
 
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Can somebody explain why the richest tech company in the world is unable to release an iPad and Mac version of this app simultaneously or in worst case a few weeks or months after the iPhone version?

Especially as that same company is in control of the OS’es and developer tools. And likes to proclaim how easy it is for devs to develop for all platforms at once.

A big disappointment to have to use 2X on an iPad in 2023.
 
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hagar said:
Can somebody explain why the richest tech company in the world is unable to release an iPad and Mac version of this app simultaneously or in worst case a few weeks or months after the iPhone version?

Especially as that same company is in control of the OS’es and developer tools. And likes to proclaim how easy it is for devs to develop for all platforms at once.

A big disappointment to have to use 2X on an iPad in 2023.
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There's actually only 3 programmers at Apple. 2 are on the Goggle project. The other is on the Car. An intern or two and Siri AI(?) attempts to handle minor changes and select bug fixes to all of the rest of the stuff. ;)

More seriously: there's probably not much profit in this app. And prioritization by profit potential probably drives programming resource allocations more than ever before at modern Apple. Free apps do not "another record revenue & profit quarter" make. What does? That's where the bulk of the resources likely focus.
 
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