Apple Music Replay 2024 now available with expanded insights

Apple today unveiled the Apple Music Replay 2024 experience, offering new insights and features for both music listeners and artists. Available within the Apple Music app, this feature allows artists to share their year-end insights through Apple Music for Artists. Continue reading “Apple Music Replay 2024 now available with expanded insights”

Instagram Stories gets Shazam integration

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Apple-owned Shazam has announced a new partnership with Instagram that will allow its users to share Shazams onto their Insta stories. The new feature is already available for iOS users who download the latest versions of both apps. Android users will be able to access the new functionality soon. Continue reading “Instagram Stories gets Shazam integration”

Apple’s Shazam acquisition is now under investigation by the EU

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The European Commission has opened an in-depth investigation to assess the acquisition of Shazam by Apple under the EU Merger Regulation. The commission believes that the merger could reduce choice for users of music streaming services. Continue reading “Apple’s Shazam acquisition is now under investigation by the EU”

Snapchat integrates Shazam, adds group chats, editing tools and more

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Shazam, known for its music identification capabilities is collaborating with Snapchat to expand its footprint. With this step, it is now possible for the user to Shazam from within Snapchat by pressing and holding on the Snapchat camera screen when music is playing nearby. Continue reading “Snapchat integrates Shazam, adds group chats, editing tools and more”

Apple adds wake up command and Shazam integration to Siri

In a bid to enhance song recognition, Apple has added Shazam integration to Siri. Apple’s intelligent voice assistant will identify the song from Shazam’s database. If the user asks “What song is playing”, Siri will identify the song and ask the user to buy it from iTunes. This feature was previously leaked last month.

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Apple reportedly teams up with Shazam to integrate song identification into iOS

Apple has partnered Shazam to work on a song identification tool for iOS 8, according to reports from Bloomberg. The feature will allow users to identify a song using their iPhone or iPad’s microphone. The report states that users will be able to access the song identification feature via Apple’s digital voice assistant, Siri. Hence, Siri will answer once a user asks “What song is playing” as it will generate the data from Shazam which has more than 90 million users.

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Sound search widget launched by Google for Play Store

The recent update for Google Now brought a new song recognition patch, which works exactly like Shazam or Soundhound. Now Google has launched Song search widget as a part of Play Store which will not only search the song for you, but will also take you to the Play Store from where you will be able to buy that song or the entire album, sleek!

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LG to offer Shazam in future Android handsets

Shazam is one of the most popular applications on Android, and if you are a music listener, then this app is must for you. The main feature of Shazam is that if you are looking for any song but you don’t remember the name of it, you can simply speak the name and artist of a song Continue reading “LG to offer Shazam in future Android handsets”