Shazam

The lyrics on the page don't match up to the music. Sometimes it works, but it seems more often than not the lyrics are a full measure behind the actual music. This can make it extremely difficult to drive because you're always trying to find where the lyrics are. And it's designed to where you can read the lyrics along with the music in that you cannot scroll up to the beginning of the song without it automatically scrolling back down to where they think the music is. It's very frustrating. One of these days, if it hasn't happened already, someone is going to get into a wreck. They don't care about safety and they don't care about people dying on the road.

I have used Shazam app for years on a Galaxy S3 which no longer supported the app. I had about a hundred songs in my library. I recently purchased an S10 to which my sad discovery that all my prior Shazams have been lost.

Currently the best iPhone application available - Shazam is the application I've always dreamed of building, but never thought possible. Just hold your iPhone up to any streaming music and it will instantly tell you the title and the artist of the song that is playing. It works whether you're in your car or in a club, and the results are amazingly accurate. I'm not sure how they do it, but I think it has something to do with the beat/bass patterns, because it seems to work even when the music is not very clear or when there's a lot of ambient noise.

Shazam is truly a technological breakthrough. I've never seen anything this accurate before. Eventually, I'd like an application that can identify any song you for which you can recite the lyrics or hum the tune, but this is definitely good enough for the times I hear a song I like at a bar. And as an added bonus, after Shazam identifies your song, you can turn your phone on its side and it will start playing the music video on youtube!

I remember 10 years ago holding my phone up in a loud restaurant and impressing my friends with the way Shazam could identify a song. Now I can stand two feet away from the speakers and after a minute of waiting I get the Sorry we couldn't quite get that message... and this is on artists like Lucinda Williams, Richard Thompson, and dozens of other artists. 75 percent of the time the song isn't recognized by Shazam. There's no way I would pay for that service. It's apparent they're just trying to sell their little games, etc. The actually, from a technological standpoint, they suck.