Shazam For Your iPhone
January 2, 2009 by Ryan Ray
Well I hope everyone is enjoying their day off and the start of a NEW YEAR! With that said I should wish everyone a Happy New Year! I enjoyed my New Years Eve celebration and hope yours was just as good. There are definitely great things to come in 2009, and particularly from the iPhone. Of course Apple is going to bring us many goodies in 2009, one of which I’m hoping for is a new iMac. Besides that though we’ve already been through the iPhone Nano rumors not only ONCE, but TWICE. So what will Apple do in the new year is anyones guess!
As I thought to myself today, what would be great to make a video about, it dawned on me that I’ve never reviewed an app called Shazam! Man, if you are an iPhone/iPod Touch owner and you don’t have this app then you are REALLY missing out. So before I even talk about head to the App Store with this LINK, and download it before you read any further. Shazam is a very simple app but such a great one at the same time. Shazam, like it’s name suggests, magically will identify any music that you hear but don’t recognize. Just for instance imagine this situation with me… Your in a coffee shop just hanging out with some friends, and since coffee shops are soo hip they put on some CD you’ve never heard before but immediately dig the sound of it. We all know you are too shy to ask the barista who this artist is. Or perhaps you are trying to play it cool and act like you know who it is. You pull out your iPhone and open up Shazam, hit Tag Now and Shazam will record a clip of sound from the iPhone. It then, with some kind of voodoo, recognizes the song and sends you the song name, artist, album, and some links to listen to the song on YouTube, iTunes Store, Email the link, etc…
It’s seriously one of my favorite ones to play with, and I use it all the time. I’ll be in Old Navy and amidst all of the noise it can hear the music and identify it for me. Which is one of the surprising things about the app. It can hear through the background noise surprisingly well. It doesn’t get it in every situation, but it has a very high success rate. I wish this app or something like it could have been available when I still listened to the radio. I’d always hear a song and wonder who in the heck was singing this song. The DJ’s hardly ever said what they were playing so it was hard to discover music.
Thanks to Shazam though it’s no longer a problem. I’m sure many other people can agree with me on this. Shazam is one of the most popular apps in the app store, and it’s completely free too. This app is so good I’ve even made another video for you all to watch today. Just check it out below, and again click through to watch it in HD!
Thanks for reading, and leave a comment for the new year. Enjoy the video…
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