Shazam updates for iOS 4.0, adds subscription model for Encore features

Soundhound is a way better choice. I liked Shazam, but didn't care for all the extra features since they weren't useful. Soundhound will listen to then figure out songs and you even have the ability to play your music right in the Soundhound app and it plays from the Music/iPod app.

I also had this app from the beginning, but I never had the song limit or any of the stuff you guys went through because one day Shazam just quit working. It won't identify a single song, can't connect through the Internet, and doesn't upgrade through the app store. UI works, functionally gone. Can't delete it because it's got all those tags in there.

I use Soundhoind now, it's great, got it for free. Still have Shazam though.

Can anyone confirm:

(1) That updating the iOS to 4.x on a 3G iPhone (from 3.1.2), without updating Shazam, will kick in the 5 song max limit I keep reading about? And that I'm supposed to be grandfathered with unlimited tags by being such a long-time user?

(2) Whether the tags I've collected disappear or remain if I upgrade to the paid version?

I have the RED version and there is no 3.0 update ?!

I agree that Shazam is on its last legs for how they handled the last update that shafted so many users after they upgraded to the Iphone 4 and were locked into 5 songs.

Wrong. SoundHound (while it does have a "free" version) has similar restrictions. The paid version is $4.99, same as Shazam is charging for the one year access.

I have used both in the past. SoundHound was disappointing -- it never once correctly identified a hummed or sang tune, only stuff off the radio. Shazam in my experience is faster and more accurate. YMMV.

Shazam is one application that just isn't useful enough to be paid, but is useful enough to use more than 5 times.

Watch an iAd for every 5 additional tags? Sure.

I just can't justify spending $5 on something I will use at best a few times over 6 months. I'll just put my $5 towards music instead.

I picked up both Shazam and Midomi SoundHound while they were both free.

It's essentially a tale of two apps.

Shazam continued to be a free app, but added restrictions to new users (i.e. 5 tags a month), and paid versions of the app which remove those restrictions.

SoundHound transformed into a paid app (now known as SoundHound ∞), introducing a new free app with restrictions. Those who picked it up while it was free (like myself) reap the benefits of the paid app, without having paid anything for it.

What's worse is when a paid app becomes free (usually with advertising included), and existing users who have paid for the app are either forced to deal with ads, use an outdated version, pay again for the app (via in-app purchase or buying a new version of the app), or find an alternative app.

I don't like this update:( because I can'not tag more than 5 songs in month for more songs I havo to buy a new app:(

Time to switch to Soundhound maybe?