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Shazam is one of the most used music apps in the world. By listening to the music playing around the user or on the device, the corresponding song can be identified. It was acquired by Apple for a huge sum of money in 2018, and it was soon integrated into Apple Music.

Since Shazam was acquired by Apple in 2018, it has become a free service under Apple. Backed by Apple Music, it has 90 million songs and is built into the control center of iPhone and iPad. If you are Mac users and want to use it to identify songs, you need to install the app first. But anyway, this app is very powerful. At present, Shazam has launched a browser plug-in for Chrome users. In the future, you don’t even need to return to the webpage to listen to songs and recognize songs, and you can do it directly in the browser.

In a word, Shazam isn’t limited to music recognition, either. For example, in 2021, the song with the longest topping time on Shazam’s global charts is “Love Nwantiti [Remix]’’ by Nigerian artist CKay. This is also the second song in history that has been recognized by Shazam more than 1 million times in a week song. Therefore, Shazam is becoming a global platform for some regional artists to play songs. From this point of view, it is not difficult to see that Shazam has gradually evolved from a participant in popular music to a recorder of pop culture by virtue of listening to and recognizing songs and its deep binding with iOS.

On iOS App Store, the rating of Shazam is 4.9 out of 5.0, with 6,700,000 user reviews. On Google Play, its rating is 4.8 out of 5.0, with782, 000,000 user reviews and more than 500,000,000 installs. Based on the above data, we can find that this app has relatively high scores and ranks high in App Store. Of course, if you love music, don’t miss this powerful and professional application for listening to songs and recognizing songs.

In the latest update, except for the usual performance improvements and user experience improvements, the app has also added an option in Settings that allows users to control the availability of video previews in the Songs page.

Compared with the song recognition function of several other major online music apps, you will find that it will push you songs related to the identified track crazily, but at the same time, some of your private data will also be obtained and used by the platform. For Shazam, when the user turns on music recognition, the system will generate a digital fingerprint of the corresponding audio, and compare it with the tens of millions of songs in the Shazam library within a few seconds. This digital fingerprint is generated on-device, and the original audio files are not sent to Apple. This not only ensures the safety of the entire identification process, but also ensures that the user’s privacy is protected. If you haven't used Shazam yet, it will not let you down.

Pros

1. It is very convenient to use, and always takes the protection of user privacy as the premise.

2. Users can also check the current popular tracks around the world on Shazam.

3. The identification of Shazam has a strong internal logic.

4. The recognition speed is faster, the fastest can be recognized within one second.

5. Support the identification of TV programs, Shazam has now started to support the identification of US TV program content.

Cons

The audio signature of the same song can be very different because of background noise and so on.