Kevin Bostic
Popular music identification app Shazam announced on Monday that it had surpassed the 300 million user mark and will in the coming months roll out a new, redesigned version of its app for both Apple's iPad and Android tablets.
According to Shazam, the past several months have seen triple-digit growth in the number of downloads of its iPad app, which has become a popular second-screen tool for television watching. The company will, in the coming weeks, redesign that app across both Android and iOS platforms to take better advantage of the tablet form factor.
The redesigned app will include a new feature showing what TV shows and music people are currently tagging, as well as what is most popular in the Shazam Tag Charts.
Users will also have access to an interactive mapping feature, allowing users to zoom in to any city in the world to see what's popular there. It will also bring an improved Shazam Friends feature, quick-tagging that identifies a song or show in as little as one second, improved sharing, and automatic resubmission when a user enters a better network reception area.
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Shazam is such a scum-ball, money-grubbing, anti-customer company. I'm genuinely sad to see them succeed. I would love to see some other company with actual integrity that cares about their users do a similar service however. I wonder if Apple would buy them out or start a service like this on their own? It has obvious value in that it sells tracks. Most of the time if you go to the trouble of identifying a track, you're going to buy it if the button is right there.
A great British invention!
Shazam is always inaccurate for me. It's a feature, not a product, and it works not all that well.
Shazam is such a scum-ball, money-grubbing, anti-customer company.
I'm genuinely sad to see them succeed.
I would love to see some other company with actual integrity that cares about their users do a similar service however. I wonder if Apple would buy them out or start a service like this on their own?
It has obvious value in that it sells tracks. Most of the time if you go to the trouble of identifying a track, you're going to buy it if the button is right there.
What's the gripe with Shazam? I genuinely do not know and haven't had a problem with the service.
A great British invention!
Absolutely! My friends Uncle helped start the company up. I've used it on many occasions and it has always been reliable for me...