Shazam - The Music Discovery Machine

November 11, 2008 at 1:00 am · Filed under Software, Videos - written by Elliot Gibson

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Put short: Shazam Basically listens to the song that’s playing and recognizes it and gives you the name, artist, and album. So its really a “music recognizing” application that can be installed on to your iPhone.

Once the song is recognized It also shows a list of YouTube videos of the song. For example as a song plays on the radio, lets say “New Soul” by Yael Naim , Shazam listens to the song for about 15 seconds then identifies it and shows you all the details you need to know on how to find it. Shazam even shows you where you can buy the song!

I would say this applications is probably most useful when you’re listening to the radio and hear a song you like, but don’t know the artist or song name. Shazam can get that precious song information you need! So far I have not heard of Shazam ever failing in trying to recognize a song. So its pretty reliable. Shazam has over 6 million tracks and is also available on Google’s Android!