Amazingly accurate & fast - an amusing trinket😋
Bought by apple in 2018 for a reported 400m.
Martin
I find Google Sound Search more reliable, Shazam doesn’t seem to recognise as much. I wonder if this is down to the genres of music I listen to compared to people who rate Shazam highly.
And built-in to Siri…Just ask ‘Siri what is this song’ and your phone/watch/tablet/desktop will respond…Few secs to provide a result along with a link through to either the Shazam App and/or Apple Music…
SC
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Siri? Not on a galaxy watch!
No, of course not…
I was following up Martinzero’s post re Apple’s acquisition…
SC
Thanks! Interesting
Martin
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I wouldn’t touch the Google one given what you give away in terms of personal data. However, I also tried both that and Shazam over a 6 month period on my iPhone. When I went back through the histories Shazam success rate was around 92% whilst Google was around 87%. Not much in it really. Enough that the outcome might well vary by genre. Google was noticeably less successful in any environment with steady background noise such as my local indie coffee shop.
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I’ve found Shazam 100‰ with soundtracks in tv series - much easier than searching through soundtrack listing sites.
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I use Shazam from time to time in all sorts of occasions, at home or away - no computer on my wrist, but I just whip out my pocket computer and it has never yet failed to tell me what I was hearing.
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I use Shazam and Soundhound. Typically, if one of them doesn’t identify the song, the other will. That said, Shazam seems to have opened a gap in the last year or so, and I rarely bother with Soundhound any more.
Sometimes, if you have Shazam listen to a popular song, it’ll identify it in under a second - amazing.
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My main use for Shazam (often via Siri) is typically when I have any of the Naim Radio HD streams playing, as they don’t have any metadata broadcast….I wouldn’t have a clue what I was listening to half the time otherwise! 
SC
Audials Play is a radio player which shows what’s playing (if the station has metadata). Very few streamers show metadata for Internet radio.
Radio Paradise, Groove Salad (Soma FM) and the Naim streams are the main HD radio I use – only the Naim Radio stations don’t have metadata on their HD streams (their lower quality ACC do however)…Radio Paradise were broadcasting metadata on their HD stream from a long time back…
I’d guess it’s a situation that is steadily improving, though I don’t think there is any standardisation, especially with HD formats, which probably doesn’t help….
SC
Yep. RP has long shown metadata including cover art. Artwork is seldom shown on most streaming systems even if some show the track info.
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I find it useful in all sorts of situations, e.g when at a gig or other event and something that particularly catches my ear played over the PA while waiting, or playing in a shop, or on a TV programme, even watching a film, or adverts on TV. And it works with classical.
Not sure that’s really true any more. It’s in the verge of being more prevalent than not at this point.
Newer streamers may, however I doubt many people will change streamer to get that benefit where tgeirs doesn’t currently have!
For example, the new bluesound Icon just displays a station logo for TuneIn streams from NDR1 - no artwork even 'tho the station broadcasts cover art. Same goes for Naim - track details but no artwork for this broadcaster.
I am talking higher end than Bluesound, with all due respecr to them.
I agree. Radio and any associated perks are a small sub set of the reasons why people have a streamer in the first place.