Shazam

A great app recognizing music

What is Shazam?

Shazam is a popular app for identifying the music for personal PC, mobile devices etc. It is used more than hundreds of millions of people monthly all around the world. Shazam was showed up by a British company in 2002. Shazam was acquired by Apple and it was worth $400 million and became one of the first apps in Apple’s App Store. It also has partnership with Spotify which is another music app now.

Sometimes you hear a song randomly and don’t know how to find it; Shazam helps you to identify it. It is very simple to discover the song by using Shazam. Not only music it can also recognize the video, film, advertisements etc. It is very simple to use and a free app!

You can also share the music with your friends on Shazam. It is available for Androids, iPhone and BlackBerry. Shazam is also known as the oldest smartphone app.

The most looked up song of all time by Shazam is ‘’Wake Me Up’’ by Avicii. It has been searched for more than 22,813,761 times. The number of Shazams all the time is around 30 billion and the most Shazamed artist of last year was ‘’Ed Sheeran’’.

How to Use Shazam?

Shazam’s working principle is very simple. You should begin with downloading the app. When it is installed and you get the app you will see Shazam sign, you need to touch it once. While music plays you need to touch it, it will take 2-6 second to recognise the song and give you the name of it. Songs that you find on Shazam will be saved on ‘’My Tags’’ part. You can check those songs whenever you want. As a reminder you don’t have to pay a price for having and using Shazam app.

You can’t download song on Shazam but you can do it on Youtube or Spotify by the links that are given by Shazam.

If you log in Shazam by your Facebook account, it will start to work with Facebook and as synchronous and that will give you an opportunity to see the songs listened by your friends. Shazam finds even the old songs.

Apart from just finding the song, Shazam will also show you other information about a song (album, year etc.). If a song is very popular and searched by many people, Shazam finds it in a shorter time. But if the song is too old and not popular it might take a few more seconds to recognize. When you try to find a song by Shazam, it is better to do it in a silent place. Otherwise Shazam can’t hear and recognize it very well.

According to the research people think it is the best one among the similar apps and they are very glad it. It is updated regularly and has new design.

It is claimed that, Shazam is going to be improve more and it will have some improvements soon. Since it is such an easy app to use, it should be available on all music lovers’ mobile devices.