Wouldn’t the Shazam use your phone’s microphone and processing anyway? I’m pretty sure the current WatchKit doesn’t allow access to sensors.
WatchKit currently doesn't provide access to the watch's microphone. You do, however, have access to the iPhone's microphone from the WatchKit extension.
So, you cannot use Shazam on the watch without the iphone being close to the source ?
Where's the fun in that ?
The Watch had a mic and a speaker but yet watchkit at the moment can't use the watch's mic ? Seems more of a limitation, If the iphones mic still needs to be able to "hear" the source, and you just control it from the watch, then why not just use the phone anyway?
you must be close anyway, and chances are the phone will probable need to be out of your pocket.... so your half way there,,, all you gotta do it launch it on the phone, instead of looking at your wrist.
Shazam is good, however it often gets tracks wrong... I dunno what kind of lookups they use or matching, but depending on different parts of the song, different results will result...
Hope Siri is much more accurate.. (seems MusicID (another app, but uses GraceNotes's from Sony), is much better, and can find remixes too. Shazam often has trouble with