Probably 10x if it worked better. It rarely works for me.
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Apple Announces Shazam Has Identified More Than 100 Billion Songs
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Honestly maybe one of the greatest inventions ever made by humankind... I use it at least once a week for years.
I’m sick of that damn song.Never heard of dance monkey, I’ll have to check it out now.
I use it so much in tv shows. I also recently discovered I can use music recognition while in another app like YouTube and it will be able to identify.
I was watching a YouTube video and I liked the song and I decided to try it and it worked and I was blown away.
Me too. One of my other wow moments was DivX. Got a pirated movie on a CD (with room to spare) but in better than DVD quality. Watched it multiple times because I was in such an awe of the technology. To be fair, I had kind of the same experience with MP3 files, where Prodigy Firestarter was the first one I had. 3,2 MB and it sounded like any other music that took up 50-60 MB for the same song length.
I still can't figure out how/when it saves Shazams to the iTunes store list, and when using shortcuts or control center, it doesn't always save to my Shazam playlist. When using the app it works fine.
I’d like to know the most recognized song NOT being used as a social media background track
I use it for YouTube backgrounds, too.
If there’s two seconds of just noise, no human voices, it can grab it.Yeah, I’d hate to see something like “Thrift Shop” or “Gangster’s Paradise” on that list.
I’d like to see “amount of times Shazam’d” compared to “How often the chorus is NOT the song title”
If you watch from a iPad or (I guess) an Apple TV you can get this from insights too. Only content on the Apple TV channel though.
I can remember, years ago, seeing a young Asian woman talking about a system she was developing that would identify songs from recorded snippets. I thought it was cool at the time but didn’t remember her name. When I heard about Shazam I thought about her.
Seeing the same recycled pop content has the opposite effect for me. This is essentially a playlist of retail radio.
I’m still waiting for a tool that helps me when I have a melody stuck in my head that I can whistle or hum, but can’t for the life of me remember what it is from.
You're holding it wrong.
I can Shazam a song from my watch, and it get automatically added to an Apple Music playlist for reference later. And I don't recall ever getting a wrong answer. Got a few "I don't know what this is" answers, but never anything wrong.
Yes, there are services that allegedly do this, but unlike Shazam, they never work for me, instead suggesting something completely different from what I had in mind.
As long as I like at least one song in that list then I know the world has not yet gone to hell 😁
Thank you!
I've been following "the most mysterious song on the internet" search for a few years. Always dipping in and out to see if there was any progress in identifying it and the banfd. I'm very pleased to hear that the band has finally been identified and the correct song title is now known.... Subways of Your Mind by FEX
Arguably, the Shazam top 100 must be the 100 most forgettable songs.
Because it’s an app. How many apps do you know that don’t have names?