Adam Kos Shazam is a popular app that can identify music, movies, commercials, and TV shows by listening to a short sample using the device's microphone. It was created by London-based Shazam Entertainment and is owned by Apple as of 2018. And she quite logically wants to keep improving it.
Ideally, Shazam is able to identify any song being played within a few seconds, but of course this may not always be the case, especially if the sound is sung by someone other than the artist who officially recorded the song, or when it comes to instrumental music and classical music. However, with the latest update, Shazam should listen for longer before giving up identification for good. This should make the platform even more useful than before.
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Shazam Entertainment Limited was founded in 1999 by Chris Barton and Philip Inghelbrecht, who were students at the University of California at Berkeley and worked at the London-based Internet consulting firm Viant. But in December 2017, Apple announced that it was buying Shazam for $400 million, with the acquisition taking place on September 24, 2018. Since then, the company has been improving it accordingly and trying to integrate it deeper into the iOS system.
Control Center
One of the biggest news was the update to iOS 14.2, which made it possible to add Shazam to the Control Center. The advantage here is obvious, because after clicking on the icon, which is therefore available anywhere in the system, Shazam will immediately start identifying songs. So you don't have to search anywhere on the desktop for a separate application icon and launch it. This will not allow other applications, because Apple denies them access to its Control Center.
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Tap on the back
If you want to instantly Shazam a song without having to interact with the display, that's possible too. With iOS 14, a new feature called Tap on the back, meaning the iPhone, was added. You can double- or triple-tap, with the behavior defined in Settings -> Accessibility -> Touch. If you define a Shazam Access Shortcut here, you will invoke it with this.
Picture in picture
iOS 14 also brought the picture-in-picture function. So if you turn on the automatic song recognition function and start a video in PiP mode, it will simply identify it for you. The advantage is that you can save the content recognized in this way to the Shazam library. It works not only in Safari, but of course also YouTube etc.
Integration into the system
By integrating Apple Shazam into iOS, you can also "shazam" content across apps like TikTok or Instagram and find out what music is playing in posts if it's not listed. It is also a matter of course that the application offers its own widget. It can show you the most recently identified tracks in a different view.
Offline recognition
Shazam also works offline. So it won't tell you the result immediately, anyway if you're not on data, it can record a snippet of a song you don't know and identify it afterwards, that is, once you reconnect to the network.
Apple Music
Shazam can synchronize its recognition with Apple Music, so it can automatically create a playlist of the content you're looking for on the streaming platform. And since Shazam offers certain usage restrictions, those are dropped with an Apple Music subscription. You can easily play entire songs in it.
