I’m disappointed by the way Shazam handled interaction with songs on the Mac.
#SHAZAM FOR MAC MOVIE#
Impressively, Shazam can listen to audio coming through the built-in speakers as well as headphones connected to your Mac – if you’re watching a movie with your EarPods on and Shazam is running, it’ll still find songs for you. Quality of results has been on par with Shazam’s offerings on iOS: the app found 90% of the songs that played on my Mac, and when it missed something, it was because a) there was dialogue over the song or b) the song was a cover version for the TV show (like an acoustic version). (Here’s a support document by Shazam explaining how they don’t store your conversations but only matched music.) The other day, Shazam worked because I installed it a couple of hours before relaxing with some TV shows the following morning, the app had stopped in the background. Shazam can run uninterrupted in the background for four hours at a time, and it can automatically start listening when you log in if its background time expires (there is a countdown in the app), you’ll have to click a toggle in the popover and turn it back on.
#SHAZAM FOR MAC FOR MAC#
Shazam for Mac lives in the menu bar, listening to audio in the background it has no “tag” button, and when it finds a match, it shows a native notification and it adds a song to its popover, allowing you to click it to view the song on Shazam’s website. I realized that Shazam could be useful on my Mac when we were watching a show a few days ago and the app displayed a notification for a song it had recognized. My Shazam library is mostly a collection of songs I’ve heard in TV shows and movies, with a couple of gems found in Apple’s commercials and while shopping inside a store ( H&M in Rome has some cool playlists, I’ve learned).
My girlfriend and I watch a lot of TV shows in the evening, and, over the years, we’ve developed a habit of keeping an iPhone next to us so, if a cool song comes up in the background and we want to know its name, we can quickly fire up Shazam without pausing the video. I have, however, found a handy role for Shazam in my Mac’s menu bar: music recognition for TV shows. That’s why I’ve never managed to get used to Shazam on the iPad and why I seldom use all the features that the company has tacked onto the app over the years: fundamentally, I see Shazam as the music recognition app for iPhone, and that’s it. I always associated Shazam with the portability and instant-on nature of the iPhone: you hear a song playing, you want to know what it is, you pull out Shazam and let it work its magic.
#SHAZAM FOR MAC FOR FREE#
I was surprised to hear last week that Shazam, makers of the popular music recognition app that’s going to be integrated with Siri in iOS 8, had launched a desktop app for OS X, available for free on the Mac App Store.
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