Shazam for the iPhone

Song Identification is very near to my heart. For a while, I tried resurrecting my "Listen.app" iPhone utility but a GraceNote license was out of reach (about the price of a typical condo) and early talks with Shazam (via Tapulous) never went anywhere. So I was absolutely gobsmacked when today I found that Shazam had gone ahead and released a version of its Music Identification Software for the iPhone.

You hold it up to record a few seconds and Shazam identifies the music. The software is beautifully designed and a joy to use. You can save your tag history and buy music you like directly from iTunes as well as share the music info with friends via email.

Kudos to Shazam for releasing such a beautiful application. Although it's currently free, it will require a service plan with a monthly cost. Going by other countries, expect the service to run about $5 to $10 per month.

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It'd be nice if apps like Shazam or Midomi could be used to automatically label the songs I rip into iTunes from my vinyl. Anyone seen something that can do that?

September 02 2008 at 11:45 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

tenfyr

I agree with most here. I'd never use this enough to justify a monthly fee. If the people at Shazam are reading this they would do well to take note. If a monthly fee is introduced they'll have developed an app that, in my opinion, could fall flat on it's ass

Midomi is also free but at the moment it is nowhere near as good for analysing samples of music

August 26 2008 at 4:20 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

artaxerxes

I wished it worked with the current iPod track on the iphone... rather than fading it out!

July 14 2008 at 7:01 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Mike Morin

For music that plays on the radio there is already an iPhone app that gives you now playing data, it is free and does not require that you hold your phone to a speaker. And, it gives you the last 5 songs so you do not have to do it while the song is playing (or you are driving in hazardous traffic). www.baktrax.mobi from you iPhone browser.

July 11 2008 at 2:24 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Joey

Why dont apple do this for free? They already have a database full of music (um... iTunes Store?)

July 10 2008 at 8:06 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

dasilvetz

Midomi is AWESOME!! and it's free!

July 10 2008 at 6:23 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

elby

$5 to $10 a month? Dream on! Watch your subscribers go from thousands to hundreds then dozens. $10 a year "maybe". (Big maybe)

July 10 2008 at 6:02 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

SirCrumpet

Midomi ( http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=284972998&mt=8 ) appears to be another (free) option to do the same thing...