Name Any Tune With Shazam iD - The Most Amazing App For Nokia S60
My latest discovery is Shazam iD, an application that gives you the title and artist of any song playing wherever you are. Your phone listens to a few seconds of the song, analyzes it, searches some database online, then shows the information all within a few seconds. I’m dumbfounded how it’s possible, but this really cool to show off!
Shazam iD analyzing a song for information.
I’ve been trying it several times using my own song collection, the radio, and even some random ones from Last.fm. Shazam iD found a match almost every time. It couldn’t find some matches when I tried random foreign language songs. It surprisingly found some foreign songs too so don’t completely disregard that category!
After analysis, it tells you title, artist, and album art. Cool!
Other than showing it off to my friends, I can use Shazam iD to find info of:
- the song playing on the radio to download later
- background music playing on a video or movie
- song playing at a club to download later
Download
The official Shazam site says it is only available to UK users and can only be downloaded by sending an SMS first. But there are other ways to download that app if you are not in the UK… try this Nokia Mosh download link or this S60 download link.
Special thanks to Amir from Phone-Rush for letting me know about this app!
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The xenon is amazing! 
This is an app that other developers should learn from, so well designed. works great on my new Nokia E71, ...
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Kabayan on 22 August 2008:
Great find! Love it! Thanks! If I can only embed the album art/title to my nameless music collections.
weckman on 22 August 2008:
Sounds great, unfortunately when trying to install (N95-1) I am told that the certificate has expired and cannot install it. I tried both sources. Too bad…
Mark Guim on 22 August 2008:
@weckman changing the date to 2007, then installing the app, then changing the date back to current works for some people.
Micky on 22 August 2008:
I have heard about this app, and from what i have heard it is indeed the dogs! I will try it out, and report back!
Micky on 22 August 2008:
Update, tried it out on several tunes, from classical, pop, to rock, and rock and roll, and it found all of them. Impressed.!
Mark Guim on 22 August 2008:
amazing isn’t it @micky?
Micky on 22 August 2008:
It certainly is, idea for those moments when you hear that tune you keep hearing, but never knew what it was called, or who sang it.
Brilliant.!
James Whatley on 22 August 2008:
Shazam as a service has been around in the UK for a good few years now - but as a dial-in:
You hear music, dial ‘2580′, hold the phone to the speaker and within minutes they’ll text you back with the track details.
The guys behind the service came to Mobile Geeks of London in Las Vegas at CTIA earlier this year and told me about their ideas for an app… I honestly thought it was a step in the wrong direction.
It seems they maybe onto a winner.
Great to see.
Mark Guim on 22 August 2008:
@James I’m glad we don’t need to call anymore and just need to run the app.
victor on 24 August 2008:
tried to instal in the e71 changing the date to 2007 but nothing… somebody can help me?!
Pnoy in US on 24 August 2008:
First, I changed the current year to 2005 but it didn’t work so I tried changing to 2007 and then….whew! It works! the application successfully installed on my phone.
jenny on 24 August 2008:
ZOMG!! it actually works! unbelievable app.. thanks mark!
sam on 6 September 2008:
how do I change the Date?
Mark Guim on 7 September 2008
you can change it in the clock application.
emonty on 11 September 2008:
not working on FP2 device, update appreciated!!!
Sukan Sethi on 1 November 2008:
Hi!
Very interested in shazam.
Downloaded it from the provided link, but can’t install to my Nokia E90.
Kindly advise if there is any way around it.
Also, since this is a trial(30 days??), what to do after that if it works. Want to purchase a license, but seems it is only for UK (are we all living on the same planet ?
)
Thanks