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Florida
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Horrible app.
October 13, 2022

When it comes to hip hop or rap music this app is the worse and if anyone posts that it's great or good they are going straight to hell for telling a lie that damn big. Shazam for a long time was the go to app. In less than 3 seconds you'd have your response boy how things have changed. I don't know who or why but someone has really F'd it up. I've posted what the average response is to my music requests.

Date of experience: October 13, 2022
Illinois
5 reviews
6 helpful votes
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Never ever failed me!
December 27, 2016

Shazam can pick up songs from my neighbors next door! And they're behind a thick wall! And they play music at normal volume, not like it's roaring all over the place! I think Shazam is one of the best app ideas ever.

Date of experience: December 27, 2016
Massachusetts
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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Doesn't show composer
September 28, 2021

When it comes to classical music, unless I'm doing something wrong, Shazam will only identify the orchestra or soloist and the title of the work. It doesn't name the composer. I have to take a screenshot and magnify the album cover to find out. Same as Siri. Shame

Date of experience: September 28, 2021
Colorado
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Death trap
November 21, 2023

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.

Date of experience: November 21, 2023
Utah
1 review
0 helpful votes
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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.

Date of experience: April 5, 2022
New Jersey
1 review
0 helpful votes
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The app didn't correctly identified a song I found. It's summersong2018 by Elektronmia.
Here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoCw_gaCHXE
Use Shazam and it would identify the song as Joy V by DJ Dubwell.

Please tell Shazam to fix this!

Date of experience: December 16, 2019
Australia
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Pretty Useless
October 19, 2016

I thought this app might be really useful in identifying some tracks I'd heard. Forget it. Unless you're into mainstream pop Shazam is completely dumb. It even struggles with well known hits from the recent past. As for old blues songs or movie themes etc. No chance. In other words it can only recognise stuff that is screamingly obvious anyway. Deleted it and got on with my life.

Date of experience: October 19, 2016
California
268 reviews
1799 helpful votes
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I recently returned from nearly 4 years of living abroad and was excited to have access to updated music again. A friend of mine told me about Shazam as a tool to use for identifying music I hear in public. Oftentimes I find myself hearing a good song in a sushi bar or hipster clothing store and trying to remember the lyrics to go home and google - so this seemed like a good solution since I now own modern technology - a phone.

Shazam is okay, but it's not as useful as SoundHound, which can identify all the songs that Shazam can't. Out of the last 10 songs I've wanted to identify, Shazam could only do 6 of them, while Soundhound picked up the rest of the work. I'll probably just do away with Shazam and stick to Soundhound.

Date of experience: February 21, 2011
California
75 reviews
472 helpful votes
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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!

Date of experience: August 8, 2008
Colorado
1 review
0 helpful votes
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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.

Date of experience: November 11, 2015
Shazam S. Shazam Rep
over a year old

Hi Mary, I'm sorry to hear you've had trouble with our app and are no longer have faith in us to provide you with the right info. If you'd be interested we'd love to hear your feedback - support@shazam.com

Wisconsin
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Shazam = Garbage
November 14, 2015

Was watching a football game today and an ad came on to shazam this ad to get a free coke zero. Of course the app says cannot record another app is using the microphone. Powered down, restarted. No other apps running. The Speedway by my house sends me coupons for stuff the don't stock. It's cheap to give away stuff you don't have! Uninstalled shazam.

Date of experience: November 14, 2015
Shazam S. Shazam Rep
over a year old

Hi Karl, I'm sorry to hear you had trouble with our app when trying to shazam for a free coke zero. I do hope you've not already uninstalled the app and if you haven't could you please let me know which device you were using?

Florida
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Gold app
January 12, 2018

I was very happy when my son showed me this app.It is amazing how this app helps you to find out about any kind of music it's playing. I couldn't believe. Thank you.

Date of experience: January 11, 2018
Illinois
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I used to enjoy being able to link to Google play after listening to a song. Now it's just stupid iTunes. Does anybody still use that? I have to find an alternative. This sucks bad.

Date of experience: November 26, 2018
California
15 reviews
66 helpful votes
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I switched from the pathetic service of AT&T and my crappy iPhone to verizon and droid and the one app that I wanted droid to have was Shazam. It works even better on android than the iPhone. Even if you are not a music lover, you will find a use for shazam at some point, just download it cause it is free.

Date of experience: January 7, 2010
Israel
1 review
2 helpful votes
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No support at all
July 20, 2018

No matter what's wrong with your Shazam app, you wouldn't have anyone from there teems to help you...

Situation in which you find answers at there FAQ's or you Screwed.

Thanks for nothing

Date of experience: July 20, 2018
New York
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
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Very frustrating lately
December 11, 2020

Tags have been real inaccurate lately. They need to upgrade their algo-system or something. Very frustrating, especially as a DJ. Not a big fan of SoundHound so Cmon yall! Step your game up!

Date of experience: December 10, 2020
California
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Variety
November 6, 2022

I would like to see Shazam identify more regional Mexican music. Rare Corridors de Michoacan y Sinaloa for instance. Thank you. Make it happen it would bring me peace keep up the good work!, Corridos

Date of experience: November 5, 2022
New York
3 reviews
37 helpful votes
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Good app
February 9, 2017

I think Shazam is not bad at all, but it could be better at the time to listen from a far away distance

Date of experience: February 9, 2017
GB
1 review
0 helpful votes
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It doesn't identify 7/10 songs correctly or simply doesn't recognize. It only identifies mainstream tunes. It's a useless app.

Date of experience: May 10, 2024
Canada
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Really sucks… I can't here my songs anymore… it randomly picks songs and plays parts of the song only.
Going to delete the app… to bad it was great….

Date of experience: January 16, 2022

Overview

Shazam has a rating of 2.5 stars from 36 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Shazam ranks 49th among Mobile Applications sites.

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