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Shazam - Discover Music

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Shazam Entertainment Limited Music & Audio

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Shazam is one of the world’s most popular apps, used by hundreds of millions of people each month to instantly identify music that’s playing and see what others are discovering. All for free.

And that’s just the beginning: One-tap access to video clips, song lyrics, related tracks and streaming services, where you can listen to your Shazams in full or buy them.

Top artists like Adele, Kendrick Lamar, Demi Lovato, are using Shazam to find new music, and you can follow them to share in the thrill of discovery.

MUSIC DISCOVERY

• Identify music with one tap
• Sing along to songs with music lyrics, or watch their videos
• Preview songs and add them to Spotify playlists**
• Shazam Offline: Identify music even when you’re not connected!*
• Check out recommended tracks to find new music
• Stay in the loop with Shazam’s real-time charts
• Simply log in to sync all your Shazams across all devices
• Launch Pandora radio based on artists you Shazam**
• Buy your Shazamed songs in Google Play Music with just one tap

CONNECT & SHARE

• See what your friends are Shazaming when you connect your Facebook account
• Follow your favorite artists to see what they’re Shazaming
• Share your discoveries through Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, Pinterest, Google+ and more…

MORE THAN MEETS THE EAR

• Shazam visual recognition: Tap the camera icon to Shazam posters, magazines, books and so much more! Use it anywhere where you see the Shazam camera logo
• Visual recognition also works as a QR code reader
• Launch Shazam on your Android Wear smartwatch to see the artist and song appear

OTHER INFO

• Previewing and buying music requires the Google Play music store in your country
• MIPS devices are not supported
• Why does Shazam need these app permissions? https://support.shazam.com/hc/en-us/articles/205139787-App-Permissions
• Shazam may share collected location data for interest based advertising, allowing advertisers
to infer interests and serve ads to users based on their activity and location over time
• For more information on Shazam’s privacy practices, please read the Privacy Policy, available at http://www.shazam.com/terms#privacy_policy
• Don’t want the advertising? Upgrade to Shazam Encore: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.shazam.encore.android

*Song names will appear in your My Shazam tab once connection is restored
**Some features are dependent on location, device and app version

Any questions or feedback? Check out: https://support.shazam.com/hc/en-us/categories/200239877-Android

Review from Franck MRA

Franck MRA

Oups! Rapprochez votre appareil du son. Message que je reçois à chaque fois, pas du tout performant, de pire en pire au long des mises à jours... Je désinstalle...

Reviews

4.4

3,030,900 total

5 2,078,559

4 497,621

3 190,174

2 83,095

1 181,451

Ben ZZZ

Only able to recognise, about 20% of the time, tracks in sets (psyambient) where as in previous versions (maybe 4-5 updates ago) it used to detect 70-80% of tracks. Have you turned off a bunch of server's or something? Why substitute looks for function? Your ruining what was once a great idea. Thanks for the years of symbian and Android but clearly your app is now in its sunset faze

William Krimson

This app is some nonsense. It takes me seven tries to find the song and on the seventh one, the song it finds sounds nothing like the one I shazamed in the first place. Not to mention it keeps telling me to get closer to the sound. I will literally have my phone pressed against the speaker while the sound comes through at the highest volume and it still won't pick anything up. What is this guys??

Music recognition is great, but there few issues: its impossible to change your email address and no export for your Shazams. You can't record samples without internet. App supports it, when you have a slow connection. But you can't do it completely without internet. It would be great to allow to record samples without internet, so when I get back to WiFi I'll upload them and will get back the names of the songs Update: then there is probably some issue, because today in the bus the app declined to start with the message that I'm not connected to the internet. So I couldn't even launch the app without internet

P. Walker

This is the worst app ever. The last few updates have ruined a good thing. I have been using this app since it first came out. I even paid for the encore version at one point, however with the last couple of updates the app fails to find a match. I have the app running on a LG Volt, and on a BLU Pure XR. I haven't been able to tag songs in months. Even songs that I know the name of Shazam fails to find a match.

Kitty Rodgers

This is awful!!! I liked it a long while back. Now I can't even get it to work for any song I play....I even came across a commercial that says "Shazam for a Joyful Surprise" and it wouldn't even recognize that!!! I don't know what you've done to this app but I REALLY dislike it....it's so disappointing....I'm gonna uninstall this app now....please make sure the next update fixes this horrendous problem....otherwise I won't ever download it again and I'll inform my friends that downloading this app will only lead to severe disappointment....

Jacob Stout

Honestly I would like this app 100 times better IF IT ACTUALLY WORKED! I've had the problem for about 2 years now and it has never been fixed it just awalys says sorry we didn't catch that every time so can someone FINNALLY fix this for me please?!!

User reviews

Ben ZZZ May 9, 2017

William Krimson May 16, 2017

May 12, 2017

Shazam Entertainment Limited May 12, 2017

Hi Andrew, You can still Shazam when you are offline. We will save the track and then show you the result once you go back online.

P. Walker May 6, 2017

Kitty Rodgers May 18, 2017

Jacob Stout May 12, 2017

Holly Walker May 26, 2017

Useless for me. The main thing I needed this app for was to find songs I didn't know the names to, and every single time, it could never "Hear" the song. No matter how loud, close, far, or low the song was playing.. Pointless.

Bunny Kingston May 11, 2017

This was a download for lays chips?!?! And then when you scan the code for a CURRENT EVENT... it says coming soon?! So you guys are claiming to have a say yes to summer giveaway... And then don't even have the event going on?! This seems like it was a scam to download your product. If I could NEGATIVE 5 STARS YOU FOR THAT I WOULD!! THERE was no "bubbles to scratch" or even event I do given. Just "COMING SOON" and nothing else! I WILL NEVER USE THIS APP AGAIN. And will NEVER bother with a lays chips event again. This was a waste of my time! What does chips and a music finder app have anything to do with eachother anyhow!?!??! If I would have known this was just a ploy to download a "music finder" I wouldn't have wasted my time. I HAPPILY USE TrackID!!

terry jonzeee May 15, 2017

tried this app 2 times never recognizes any songs no matter how accurate or loud I make the song! I even sang the name of song and it did not get it, pretty stupid app if this is what it does

Roy Stein May 26, 2017

this APP is only good for system music and famous ones. It cannot tell human voice, and it cannot find some unpopular songs. What makes me angry is it does not identify the reason of failure. fair enough as a Free app

Lisa-Jane Soldan May 11, 2017

Was great until the latest update. Now it doesn't correctly pick up any songs at all. I even tried doing it at different parts of the song including the chorus.. it comes up with these weird artists and tracks I've never heard if and in different languages.

Nan Jeznach May 15, 2017

How can I reverse the upgrade? It was awesome till the last update. Now it doesn't recognize any song that is shorter. I could just point at the tv and got the song in seconds now it is oppose, agghr and eh try again. I do not want this version I want my old Shazam back

Code Nemesis May 15, 2017

It used to work very well, but now it does not recognize the songs I try to play. It works only 30% of the time. Try to fix it on how it uses to be, one that actually recognizes the song without a problem.

Scott Spiegelberg May 18, 2017

This app is a piece of you know what! Used to be good, now it isn't. Uh, shouldn't apps be getting better over time, not worse? Isn't functionality supposed to be improved, not worsened? Does nobody there actually test the thing before releasing a new version? Did you decide to let mentally challenged people who live in a group home work on the app because you felt sorry for them? Well fire them and hire back the hipster d- bags who worked on it originally in the early days. No more tard apps!

Mohamed Yos May 21, 2017

old shazam was amazing it can get any song in very fast time. after updates it become very very bad i dont know what happen but shazam become worth!! not better. plz get back old shazam . its become very very deaf . one day shazam (was) the best ever music recognize app

Jordie Cairns May 29, 2017

This app is terrible, unless it's a mainstream song that you want to know the name of the artist and song is non existent. I listen to alot of trance and other edm music and it's got no clue who anyone is. There's 100's of "A state of trance" songs I've been trying to find out and this app was pointless, it didn't no any of them, not even the more mainstream songs. I'd avoid personally

hyperbloke May 29, 2017

Last number of times i've used the app, it fails completely to actually find the music. Often showing poor covers instead of the actually track that's playing. Assuming what it finds even remotely resembles the track! Also you can't open the youtube video in youtube, so you cannot view it full screen.

Matteo13 May 13, 2017

It never picks up what you sing or play. I tested it with Man in the Box by Alice in Chains 3 different time and it said it didn't hear anything even when I was yelling. Don't get this app. Its just a waste of space.

Brett Labach May 6, 2017

This app went from the best way to find new music. Now I'm lucky if it can get the song right after 3 tries, and it still misidentifies the song. Fix now!!

César Luis Alvargonzález May 15, 2017

Please remove the condescending messages, they are super annoying. Also the logo doesn't spin anymore, so there is no way to see if the app is not freezed

the doctor chants 00 May 28, 2017

It was excellent to start off. Now the update sucks. The sensitivity is pathetic. Why do u update to worse version. U will lose lot of people if this goes on

David Noel May 17, 2017

Used to be excellent. Not anymore. With the new look you can't tell if it's really listening other than it says it is. Unlike older versions that graphically moved to the beat of the music. The worst part is that it only identifies songs 1 out of 10 times.

cole cimenski May 11, 2017

App is useless after last update. Instead of listening to the track I'm trying to identify, i get an ad. Until this is fixed I'll be using a different app for music identification. If fixed it will go back to 5 stars.

Kwan Wai Teng May 24, 2017

This used to be great. But after the last few updates it's now unable to detect any sound even if it's really loud, and no longer recognises most songs! It used to recognise about 90% of the time I used it, and now it can't even detect the sound. What's going on? Using s7 edge BTW.

Tyler Prusky May 28, 2017

App doesn't work at all. I'll have a perfect song running on YouTube and it's so stupid it cant find it. Garbage app. Used to be great but it just refused to work for the past year. Get good guys.

Endgame May 22, 2017

Piece of god damn trash, - "Eeek! We couldn't find any sound!" and that's after shouting an easily recognizable song into it. Wow.

Julie Platt May 28, 2017

Shazam used to be great, recognising songs in seconds. However after the last few updates it now doesn't work at all - it's almost like it's not connected to my microphone when 'listening'. A good app now totally unusable. If there's no update soon, it's getting uninstalled.

Elyas Stephens May 28, 2017

Terrible. I tried to identify a song 10 times in a row and I got a different, but no less wrong, answer every time.

Adam Lutz May 14, 2017

The app now runs like garbage after the latest update. Freezes all the time and is full of bugs. Give us a way to revert to the last **BETTER** update or make a new one with a new look, performance, and better ui and options.

Tom Stanlake May 23, 2017

Not sure what they changed but since I got android 7.0 this will NOT work. "Get closer to the sound" .... impossible when I'm sitting next to the speaker. Disappointing since it's worked so well for 2+ years that I've used it.

Richard W May 5, 2017

Useless! Sure didn't work well for me, tried on a well known song from the 80's (live is life) several times, couldn't recognise it?

Suraj Koundinya May 16, 2017

Doesn't recognize songs which are not mainstream. I mean what's the point of have this app if it doesn't recognize one single song.. Uninstalling.. Used to be a good app don't know what has happened lately 👎

ShiftMode Gaming May 12, 2017

It's the best music app you could ever find. It actually gives you the answer of "what's that song?". It recognizes all the music. One thing, It could be much helpful if you didn't need WIFI to track the songs.

David Smolík May 19, 2017

Doesn't work anymore. Used to be really essential app to find songs, but it NEVER recognizes any of the songs. I don't what you guys fucked up, but you should fix it ASAP.

Gaurav Mohanty May 10, 2017

Originally 4 stars. But now not recognizing any song. Says to get closer to the audio. Even after that same message. Not even recognizing the songs which the app had recognised earlier.

Kalvin Tang May 25, 2017

Wow Shazam use to be good. I recently shazamed a popular Chinese song 3 times and it pulled up 3 different EDM trap music from Zeta, Skrillex, and some other wierd artist...... Two totally different type of music that isn't even identical to each other...... Is it because the Chinese language sound so much like the edm instruments ???........

A Melendez May 27, 2017

Very disappointed, used to find so many songs. Now it hardly finds any and when it does it takes up to 5-7 tries. What happened??? Can't find EDM songs anymore or even songs from tv.

Seth Stark May 14, 2017

I used to love this app unitll it's sound quality drop fast. Now it can't even identify the most common songs. Im sorry but dont get this app.

Roberto Marchesini May 26, 2017

There is an annoying sign that appears too often that says it is recording audio. It doesn't let you do anything unless you press the "ok" button. Very annoying, but the app is good at identifying music, can't complain about that.

Ed Pomfret May 14, 2017

Doesn't work any more. "Ooops didn't catch that" for every song. Also should store previous shazams in the cloud. Annoying as it was a good app in previous versions.