Shazam: Identify Songs for PC and Mac

Software Reviews and Criticism

• By catgil3

  Shazam on my desktop id’s poor recordings

  It’s great, I just click on the little icon that stays at the top edge of my laptop when I want it to “listen” to id the music I’m playing in my video, captured during a class, and it not only gives me the name but a link to the actual piece.

  
  
• By Tom Wolsky

  Should sync

  Is My Shazam supposed to sync across devices? That's not happening for me. Without that functionality, the app is pretty weak. It'll listen to music playing around you, but chances are, unless you're sitting in Starbucks, you have a good idea what music is playing in your home. Do not understand why you can log into Shazam in iOS and not in PC so that the devices can sync. It's ridiculous in version 12. Sorry, ratings gone down to one star, and unless this is added should sink further.

  
  
• By Dan Philibin

  Great standalone app, but no sync

  This is a great little menu bar app that is as good as the phone app is at identifying music, but the fact that it doesn't have any sync with my Shazam account is a bummer. I really hope that's added sometime soon.

  
  
• By LIV :3

  It works, but...

  Auto-Shazam used to pick up every single song, and now I have to actually click it for it to find the song. It's quite inconvenient.

  
  
• By ishboyfay

  Unfriendly to classical music fans

  As a classical music fan, I find this a frustrating app. They've gone to the trouble of putting thousands of classical recordings into their database, and the app is frequently successful in identifying relatively obscure items. The problem is that they haven't bothered to think about how to present the identification. Here's my latest example: I turned on the radio in midstream of what was clearly a piano quartet or quintet. It was obviously 19th-century French music, and I suspected — from a similarity to a piano trio I knew — that the composer was Fauré. From tempo etc. it seemed we were in the final movement. What I wanted to know — what a classical music fan typically wants to know — was the composer and the name of the overall 4-movement composition. After a couple of tries, Shazam succeeded, telling me that the piece was 4. Allegro Molto, performed by the Beaux Arts Trio & Lawrence Dutton. That was Interesting, but you see what's missing: precisely the two pieces of information I wanted. Now, of course, I could use this information to identify the piece by Googling, or I could just wait to the end and hear what the announcer says. I conclude, however, that Shazam is not interested in the classical music niche audience. They could easily fix this issue. How about a button for "more information"?

  
  

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