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Apple Completes Shazam Acquisition, Will Make App Ad-Free For Everyone (theverge.com) 60

Posted by BeauHD from the free-for-all dept.
Apple has successfully completed its $400 million acquisition of Shazam, and the company announced it will be removing all ads from the app "soon." The Verge reports: The acquisition was temporarily held up because of an investigation by the European Union, which scrutinized the deal over potential antitrust concerns. But regulators gave it the thumbs up earlier this month. Shazam has been downloaded over 1 billion times around the world and is used over 20 million times every day, according to Apple's press release. The app has been around since the beginnings of the App Store and was one of the coolest early demos of what a mobile app could do. You'd hold up your phone, let it listen to a song playing nearby for a few seconds, and the track and artist information would just pop up on screen like magic. All these years later, it's now a feature that's available on many platforms and one we take for granted.
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  • lyrics (Score:4, Insightful)

    by fluffernutter ( 1411889 ) on Monday September 24, 2018 @08:14PM (#57370796)
    I might be getting old, but I find googling on four words from a lyric followed by the word 'lyric' produces the same results.

    • Re: lyrics (Score:2, Interesting)

      by Anonymous Coward

      I listen to a lot of instrumental music, so that doesnt help.

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by Anonymous Coward

      Only if you can understand the lyrics. You must be old if that's the type of music you listen to.

      • Only if you can understand the lyrics.

        Case in point: If a song is in a foreign language, typing the closest mondegreen might not do you much good. "In a sauna here", "Shot Osama here", and "Broken condom style" don't turn up "Gangnam Style" by Psy. (Or at least they didn't before the parodies arrived.)

    • googling on four words from a lyric

      like this one [genius.com]?

    • but you need to say "shazzaaaam" at the same time

    • I might be getting old, but I find googling on four words from a lyric followed by the word 'lyric' produces the same results.

      Never stop being dumb as shit - you are hilarious.

      Quick: tell us 4 words from the lyrics of Popcorn. Take Five? Fried Green Onions. No?

      Okay. Next: the words are "I love you darling". Which song? Nope, wrong.

  • I used SoundHound. It worked.

    I then removed it to save space on the phone, wanted to use something again and found Shazam and it didn't work.

    I then checked for other solutions and found SoundHound again and it worked.

    Free and no ads is good but ... functionality matter.

    Try with "du dut dut dut dut dut dut dut dudu du dutt .." from https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com] and see for yourself!

    • IMO Soundhound is (much) better at finding songs that you sing. Shazam is better at finding genuine songs that play on the radio.

  • Last I checked, the Apple Music app for Android didn't run on tablets, even those running relatively recent Android 7 "Nougat". The app's Google Play page [google.com] states that the app is incompatible with my Samsung Galaxy Tab A 8" (SM-T350). If Apple's acquisition of Shazam is intended to drive users to Apple Music, how will it benefit tablet users who can't even run Apple Music because it's not for tablets?

    • Last I checked, the Apple Music app for Android didn't run on tablets, even those running relatively recent Android 7 "Nougat". The app's Google Play page [google.com] states that the app is incompatible with my Samsung Galaxy Tab A 8" (SM-T350). If Apple's acquisition of Shazam is intended to drive users to Apple Music, how will it benefit tablet users who can't even run Apple Music because it's not for tablets?

      It benefits Apple because you'll want it so much you'll buy an ipad.

      That's their theory anyway ...

    • Last I checked, the Apple Music app for Android didn't run on tablets, even those running relatively recent Android 7 "Nougat".

      Well, Android tablets don't do a lot of things apparently, one of them play MP4s - so why do you blame that on Apple?

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by tepples ( 727027 )

        Last I checked, MP4 files using AVC+AAC worked on Android. Which codecs are used in the MP4 files that fail to play on Android?

        • Last I checked, MP4 files using AVC+AAC worked on Android. Which codecs are used in the MP4 files that fail to play on Android?

          Not on Android. On Android tablets. Go Google yourself. Or better use a different search engine - just in case hides inconvenient facts for you. And then ask Google why it doesn't work - I sure as hell don't. Nobody outside Google seems to know. And yet many people have noticed, not just people who want to use Apple Music.

          • Not on Android. On Android tablets. Go Google yourself. Or better use a different search engine

            My brief DuckDuckGo session didn't turn up any difference between codec support on Android phones and codec support on Android tablets. In particular, the media formats page [android.com] doesn't list any such differences: all devices must decode HE-AAC and AVC (H.264) main profile, and all devices must encode AAC-LC and AVC baseline profile. What query did you use that turned up relevant results?

            The Apple Music app's page on Google Play doesn't list any permissions specifically related to cellular voice capability. So m

  • I wonder if they'll keep supporting Android and whether the android version will be ad-free. Or if they'll remove Spotify integration from Shazam. I don't see this as a "feel good... oh that's great" story for a lot of Shazam's user base. I think this is only good news for the likes of SoundHound and others who will likely see a spike in adoptions as Shazam gets Applefied...

    https://beebom.com/shazam-alte... [beebom.com]

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by MrL0G1C ( 867445 )

      Will they keep supporting their biggest competitor? Why would they? I expect they'll shut down the android version as fast as they can.

      • Will they keep supporting their biggest competitor? Why would they? I expect they'll shut down the android version as fast as they can.

        Why? They already have an Android version of Apple Music.

        Haters gotta Hate, I guess...

    • Android already has it's own built in equivalent [theverge.com]. I've used it a couple of times, and it seems to work as well as Shazam

  • Not a word that i've ever considered using when referring to Apple. I cant imagine why ...

  • I can hear Gomer Pyle getting this news now: "Well, Shazam!"

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