Name Any Tune With Shazam iD – The Most Amazing App For Nokia S60

August 21st, 2008 • Mark Guim • Filed Under •

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!

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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!

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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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  • Nokia 6700 classic user
    Does it work for the S40?
  • Shivek
    can anybody tell me where i could get the full version free?????
  • Matt
    Yeah, how come it's free and works without signing up on the iPhone, yet it isn't available on my N85, yet I can install it just fine, but can't get it registered. I even modified the text they send them to add the country code to no success. Anybody get it to work on their N85 or port the iPhone app to s60?
  • Tony
    Great, worked with date 09/06/07 on N95-1 v30.
    This is the one app that has made me very jealous of the iphone as it seams to be available without restrictions there.
    Many thanks!
  • Michael Williams
    Hi Sukan, any luck with making it work on the E90? Have been trying on my E90, but "absolutly nothing" (From the movie Rush Hour, without Shazam)!
  • Sukan Sethi
    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
  • emonty
    not working on FP2 device, update appreciated!!!
  • @emonty, you're right. I can't run it on my Nokia N85.
  • sam
    how do I change the Date?
  • you can change it in the clock application.
  • jenny
    ZOMG!! it actually works! unbelievable app.. thanks mark!
  • Pnoy in US
    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.
  • victor
    tried to instal in the e71 changing the date to 2007 but nothing... somebody can help me?!
  • Vishal
    change the date to 2008. It works in my e71
  • akmr007
    it work with my N95 but when i tried on E71 it doesn't work, did you found i solution.
  • @James I'm glad we don't need to call anymore and just need to run the app.
  • 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.

    :)
  • 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.!
  • amazing isn't it @micky?
  • Update, tried it out on several tunes, from classical, pop, to rock, and rock and roll, and it found all of them. Impressed.!
  • 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!
  • @weckman changing the date to 2007, then installing the app, then changing the date back to current works for some people.
  • weckman
    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... :-(
  • Kabayan
    Great find! Love it! Thanks! If I can only embed the album art/title to my nameless music collections.
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