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Shazam Reaches Over 1.5 Million Downloads

Totally!!
this app is great! apart from a number of obscure songs that i've tested that it failed to ID it is always 100% correct. it can even pick up music under very harsh conditioned. It even works next to a a disco!
 
This is by far one of the best apps offered on the store to date. I've used this in crowded restaurants and even walking down the Promenade.
 
jsdoyle said:
I forgetful. So when I'm driving along listening to my radio I only have to "tag" the song with Shazam and when I get home I can add the song to my play list on my iPhone or iPod.

Works like a charm! The application rarely misses!
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esquire360 said:
I amazed by this
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I AM certain that both of yall need English lessons. :p seriously this is awesome! if only they made one for Chinese songs and we will be golden.
 
EglMtn said:
I'm curious how Shazam is profiting from all of this. They don't appear to sell anything, nor is there any advertising on their website. Are they making money from the links into iTunes? If so, are the iTunes commissions great enough that it is really worth their time?
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Anyone can sign up to be an affiliate and link to iTunes (at least you used to be able to), the payouts are not huge but the more you sell the higher the percentage, get enough hits and it would be well worth doing.
 
I am surprised apple doesn't ban this app because it lets you search for music, just like iTunes.
 
NeoMayhem said:
I am surprised apple doesn't ban this app because it lets you search for music, just like iTunes.
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It compliments a heap of functions on the iPhone. Hear a song, tag it, then it gives a bunch of links to youtube and iTMS.

If anything it makes Apple money.
 
There are so many times that I'm in a restaurant or business and wondering what song is playing over the speakers, and now.... Shazam!!!!! :)

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THIS IS OF NO SURPRISE

It has to be the best app I have ever ever used. It is so useful and clever even my mum goes round the house Tagging radio music!

Amazing. Well done!
 
starzplacez said:
I AM certain that both of yall need English lessons. :p seriously this is awesome! if only they made one for Chinese songs and we will be golden.
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Jack... You're a funny guy! It's times like this that the internet becomes your own worst enemy.

Before you begin to criticise and pass judgement on others with regards to their command of the English language, maybe (just maybe!) you should play it safe and refrain from doing so just in-case others (like me) pick-up on your previous posts...

Re., Anyways and Feedbacks - unfortunately neither feature in any English dictionary I've come across...!! :rolleyes:

And the perfect exemplary piece crafted by your own fair hand being...

starzplacez said:
I have a newbie question, when the 2.0 does come out and I get the iPod touch along with my iMac purchase (B2S Promo), will I get the 2.0 for free with it?
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When the 2.0 does come out ... will I get the 2.0 for free... ???

Oh boy... Hopefully you're now embarrassed enough to realise that you've been rather silly in pointing out the mistakes of others!! :cool:
 
Rojo said:
Midomi may have more features, but Shazam is MUCH better at doing the one thing it does: identify music. I'm still batting 100 with Shazam, while Midomi got about half right when I used it (I've since deleted it from my iPhone for redundancy -- I have no interest in humming a song into my iPhone, which never worked for me anyway).

Shazam has never ceased to amaze me. There have been so many situations where I'm in a restaurant with loud chatter, and the feint sound of music playing, and my boyfriend pulls out his iPhone with Shazam -- and I always give him a warning: "There's no way that it's going to pick up what's playing." And sure enough, it does! I too have tried to stump it with covers or remixes, yet it always picks the right version. And I've even tried it during live performances, and it's always worked!!

Too bad for the developers that made this for free, as they certainly deserve some compensation for one of the most amazing apps for the iPhone!
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+1. I had way less success with Midomi, and deleted the app.
 
starzplacez said:
I AM certain that both of yall need English lessons. :p seriously this is awesome! if only they made one for Chinese songs and we will be golden.
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I swear I typed "I'm" in the original. Me thinks the forum software has a glitch. :)
 
Rojo said:
I'm still batting 100 with Shazam, while Midomi got about half right when I used it (I've since deleted it from my iPhone for redundancy -- I have no interest in humming a song into my iPhone, which never worked for me anyway).
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I think you mean "I'm batting 1000" (or better, "I'm batting 1.000"), meaning that Shazam has given you the correct answer every time you used it.

In baseball, if you're batting 100 (or .100), you're only reaching base on a hit 1 out of 10 times. A perfect batting average is 1.000 (or "a thousand.")

If Midori is right about half the time you use it, then it's batting .500.

Yeah, I'm a baseball nut :D
 
When it misses...

The one feature I would appreciate with Shazam: I wish it would retain a snippet of a tune that it can't identify, so that later I can try to identify it through some other means.

Other than that, I love it. Midomi may win the "feature list" battle, but Shazam rocks the iPhone.
 
Am I missing something? I thought only the first 10 IDs were free, then it charged per ID thereafter?

I thought it was amazing but deleted it after a few days thinking that I'd probably never want to pay.
 
work with any languages?

Does it work with all languages?
Mandarin, Thai, Korean, Japanese, Hokkien?

The recent launched Genius seems not working with other languages... not so genius it seems
 
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