Just yesterday Shazam looked Badly... Nevertheless, it still had to be launched to find out the name of the track that is playing on the radio in the car right now.
But with the release of the next update, the application has changed. It received a fresh interface and a whole set of new features that will appeal to music lovers. We appreciated it and fell in love. 😍
Let's tell you more.
Shazam sold out to Apple, so it's cool
At its peak, Shazam, which is able to recognize music, TV shows and clips better than other services in the world, was estimated at a billion dollars.
However, the company failed to find the right approach to monetization, so its value quickly dropped to half that amount or even less.
There is no official data, but TechCrunch is confident that Apple bought Shazam in December 2017 for 400 million dollars.
“We're thrilled to have the talented Shazam team join Apple. Apple Music and Shazam are the perfect combination to help our users rekindle their musical passion. ”(Apple to The Verge)
The Verge believes that Shazam (≈150 million active users) will be useful for the company to promote Apple Music (≈30 million) and fight Spotify (≈60 million).
After using the new version of Shazam, we made sure that in a fresh role, the service is not just MASTHEV for music lovers, but also a cool addition to Apple Music for finding new music.
👉 Fun Facts About Shazam:
- Chris Burton launched Shazam back in 1999
- Today the service knows more than 11 million tracks
- Shazam was valued at $ 1 billion in 2014
- In 2016, the service earned only $ 56 million
It is believed that Shazam should have become an independent streaming service for a long time, but its management just missed the moment.
But now it will be an add-on for Apple Music, it's even better for you and me.
The app now has a cool interface
The first thing that catches your eye is the new Shazam interface, which fits well into the Apple software ecosystem.
The service was divided into three sections:
- Central- here is a big button for searching "Shazamnut" and a key to search by photo
- Left- here is your account with search history, artist subscriptions for recommendations and other content
- Right- recommendations live here, which are collected based on your search history and list of favorite artists, as well as global ratings
Today Shazam exists as a companion to Apple Music. He gets attached to a music service, allows you to use his subscription to listen to tracks and constantly offers to switch to it to find something interesting.
A couple of times I came across Spotify, but it, along with Google Music, can be completely removed from here at any time. Or not, this is not clear yet.
There is no news of continued support for Shazam for Android today. However, given the availability of Apple Music for this OS, I doubt the company will abandon this thread.
The new Shazam app looks awesome. It is comfortable and minimalistic, you want to open it over and over again.
Shazam - a new way to search for music
I will share the most interesting observations.
Popular in the world. You can open a map on which the preferences of the listeners at a given time will be marked.
It's great to hear what makes people crazy today on the other side of the world.
Regional charts. Shazam understands where you are and offers charts for your specific location from the most watched tracks over the past week.
This is a chance to get in your ears for local performers and they are OK.
Cool playlists. For example, today Shazam invites me to spend my day playing Daft Punk, Hardwell or Chris Brown.
Only one of these performers is on my favorites list.
The most shazamed. I really liked the rating of the tracks that are most often searched through this service. These are those who do not listen out of inertia or out of love for a particular performer.
There are many interesting finds here.
What other interesting features does the service have?
Today it seems that this is how Shazam has always been. It has become new, varied and convenient.
It is very important that Apple does not position the service as its own. Therefore, there are transitions to the resources of competitors and many other interesting features.
More chips:
- YouTube clips for many popular songs
- Quick word search for tracks via Google
- Word sync to sing along to your favorite track
- Radio stations by specific artist
- List of tracks looking for your favorite artists
To monetize all of this, Shazam has ads that can be turned off for RUB 229. I liked the updated app, so I paid right away.
Have you already tried it?
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The Shazam application is very popular among active users of mobile devices. In 2017, it takes a solid place in the TOP-10 in terms of the number of installations. In this regard, questions often arise as to whether there isand installation? And if there is no opportunity to use it without installing on a PC, then what are the analogues available online? Let's try to answer these questions.
What is "Shazam"
How did this program conquer the public and why users, in addition to a mobile application, want to be able to use?
The utility makes it possible to find any song on the network, by a short recording. That is, the user, having heard a melody that he liked even without knowing the artist or the title of the work, can organize a search by recording a short fragment of the sound of the song. In addition, you can search for a song you like using several words.
"Shazam" as search results will provide not only suitable audio recordings, but also clips or other videos, if they are uploaded to.
A simple interface, free access and a unique opportunity to find almost any composition makes the application very popular. Statistics show that the application is regularly used by hundreds of millions of people, while the geography of use is comparable to the whole world.
The only drawback of the popular
The software is that it was developed only for mobile devices and does not have a desktop version.
How the program is used
Let's take a closer look at the process of using the Shazam utility using the example of an application for a mobile device. Imagine a situation, you have heard a melody that you have been looking for for a long time, but, unfortunately, you do not know either the artist or the name of the track. And the words are hard to remember. Partial illumination occurs only at the moment when the melody is directly heard. 
So, in order to replenish your personal music library with the necessary composition, a person who has “Shazam” installed on his mobile must do the following:
In most cases, "Shazam" successfully recognizes the desired composition and produces exactly the desired tracks as a result.
The utility actually provides the desired result 95% of the time. In this connection, it rightfully justifies its popularity and desire to be able to use"Shazam" online on a computer without downloading.
So what about the PC software? Today, an online version of this particular utility does not exist. In this connection, it will not be possible to fully use the capabilities of the program without downloading, if there is an urgent need, it remains to advise either to use analogs, or to use workarounds.
In 2017, there is a PC app available for MAC only. That is, for the operating system MacOS, for Windows, such a program is currently not available. This was not always the case, previously there was software for using Shazam on a PC with the most common operating system, however, due to frequent complaints and application bugs, in the summer of 2017 it was removed from access. 
As a result, today the only option that allows you to use "Shazam" on a Windows PC is the installation of an emulator. That's all, but it's worth saying that it's not the only one available, so you can try other options. In addition, this Android emulator is quite demanding on the capabilities of a PC and will simply not work on a low-power device. If your PC has less than 2 cores in the processor and less than 2 GB, then you shouldn't even try.
After installing the emulator (this is done with the help of a wizard and does not cause the slightest difficulty), you need to activate a Google account in it, in accordance with all the rules for using Android devices. Then download the required application in the Play Market, install and use all the features of the program.
By the way, this method will allow you to operate any software available only for the Android platform on a PC. The main thing is that the PC, in addition to accessing the Internet, also has one, otherwise the idea will be a failure.
"Shazam" analogues
So, as a consequence of the previous part,not available. In order to take advantage of such opportunities without installing unnecessary software on your computer, you should use analogues of Shazam online. It should be noted that there are quite a few such services. Here is a short list with a brief description of the possibilities.
Midomi is the closest analogue
The closest service in terms of its capabilities and functionality. Despite the fact that the resource is implemented in English and does not have a Russified version, its use is intuitive and does not cause any difficulties.
- We go to the main page of the site midomi.com and click on the "Click and sing" command.
- Allow access to the microphone.
- We record about 10-15 seconds of sound.
- At the end of the recording, press "Stop".
After completing all the above actions, the service will start processing the recording and searching for similar tracks. As a matter of fact, the service is almost the same as expected from use..
Another feature of Midomi is the ability to process and recognize as a melody even what the user hums or whistles. Therefore, if you have excellent hearing, and you are able to reproduce what you heard with sufficient quality, and an obsessive melody stuck in your head, then you are here, in search.
Audiggle is another similar service
Perfectly recognizes sound without recording, simply through a microphone. It is enough to bring it closer to the speakers to be able to hear well what is being reproduced.
Foreign resource WatZatSong
The service is not suitable for those who speak only their native language, as it is completely performed in English. The main advantage of the resource is that it combines not only the ability to search for a melody, but also implements the main functions of a social network.
That is, users identify the melody on their own. After downloading the desired fragment, network members listen and put forward assumptions about what kind of melody it is or offer tracks that are similar, in their opinion. The service can be integrated with Facebook and receive notifications about comments to the desired post there.
Thus, despite the fact that it is impossible to use Shazam online from a PC, there are many options to solve the problem. You can install additional software and the program itself on a PC, or you can use online resources similar in functionality that do not require installation.
Until recently, it was quite difficult to determine which song is playing on the radio, in some kind of advertisement or in a bar. It mostly depended on our luck to sit next to someone who knows the song. Now this has come to an end thanks to Shazam, application for detecting and recognizing music developed for iPhone and Android and we can now use it on our Windows PC.
And while we might think that the native environment of this software should definitely be in the mobile version of the app, to be honest, it can be quite useful on the PC as well. Just imagine that you watching TV with a laptop in front of you, listening to the radio, or watching a movie or TV series on Netflix, and suddenly a song you like sounds like. What is this song? Don't worry, just press a button and you'll know the name of the song right away.
Press the button and wait: in a few seconds it will be able to recognize any song.
Just like the version for smartphones and tablets, this is an application that you can download and use completely free of charge, and it instantly connects you to an online database to offer you all the information about the song (title, author, album ...) , and a way to download the song in MP3 format (legal download, of course). It works exactly the same as the mobile version, as the download offers you APK file and Android emulator like BlueStacks.
The reason we have to resort to this rather poor solution is because the developers Shazam decided remove this software from Windows Store in early 2017, having released it just 2 years ago. Therefore, there is no native version for the operating system from Microsoft, although there are many alternatives on the Internet, such as Midomi or TuneFind.
Key Features Shazam for pc
Personalized experience
One of the advantages provided by this application is its user area, which makes the experience more personalized thanks to the history of the music recognized by the application. In turn, we can make this story public and find out which users Shazam used the app to recognize the same song as well as the rest of the songs they identified: you can reveal music thanks to users with similar musical tastes.
It is possible to recognize fragments of a played file by sound. So, included Shazam can specify artist, song title and album. But the update of the iOS application went even further - from now on, recognition will be carried out automatically thanks to the Auto Shazam function.
It is noteworthy that, according to the creators of the service themselves, the introduction of the function has led to numerous requests from users. The creators of the program have also added several additional features, including sharing results via WhatsApp, iMessage or Pinterest. 
The new feature enables automatic music recognition - all you need to do is activate it. This can be done by clicking on the switch, which is located on the main page of the program. Then for the next hour Shazam will analyze the music continuously. In this case, the application does not need to work in the main mode. Moreover, the user can safely close it or lock the device screen. 
In order to implement the new Auto Shazam function, the developers used a program that records a part of the track using the built-in microphone and then sends it to the server. The latter "responds" by sending all the data about the song. The main requirement of working with Shazam, of course, is the availability of access to the Internet, since it is necessary to communicate with the server. True, it is possible to recognize a track without connecting to a global network. It happens in the following way: the application saves the recorded part and offers to carry out recognition a little later.
It is worth noting that there are two versions of the application. Shazam for iOS devices. One of them is available for download in the App Store absolutely free, while it allows recognition up to 5 times a month. The paid version will cost users 229 rubles and will provide an unlimited number of track recognition.
