Shazam App Gallery

Richard Hay, Senior Content Producer

November 7, 2015

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Shazam App Gallery

 

Shazam is a popular service that is basically a search engine for music and television shows.

You use the app to listen to a portion of a song that is playing or part of a television show and it will look up what that song/program is and give you the details.

Consider it the Bing of music and television.

Recently Shazam updated their app to the new Universal Windows Platform (UWP) for Windows 10 which means they now have a common code base to eventually push this updated app to Windows 10 Mobile and Xbox One.

This new UWP of Shazam brings a host of new features:

  • Recognise songs and tracks wherever you are. Even offline!

  • Buy tracks from Windows Store

  • Instantly discover more about the song: get lyrics and see music videos and performances on YouTube

  • Share your discoveries to Facebook, Messenger, SMS, Email and more

  • Ask Cortana to “Shazam this” and instantly start identifying music around you

Shazam also uses the Live Tiles available in Windows 10 to show you the most recent songs you shazammed and to give you quick access to Shazam itself.

There is also no limit to how much you use Shazam as the service is completely free.

I tried the Cortana integration and it works very well through both voice and typing to access a Shazam search.

Lastly, if I have one knock on this new version of Shazam, it is the fact you can apparently only log into it with a Facebook account. This may be their new model and socially knowing what your Facebook friends are shazamming might be interesting for music discovery but to their credit they did not auto-share my shazams so that is a plus.

Download Shazam for Windows 10 on PCs

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About the Author

Richard Hay

Senior Content Producer, IT Pro Today (Informa Tech)

I served for 29 plus years in the U.S. Navy and retired as a Master Chief Petty Officer in November 2011. My work background in the Navy was telecommunications related so my hobby of computers fit well with what I did for the Navy. I consider myself a tech geek and enjoy most things in that arena.

My first website – AnotherWin95.com – came online in 1995. Back then I used GeoCities Web Hosting for it and WindowsObserver.com is the result of the work I have done on that site since 1995.

In January 2010 my community contributions were recognized by Microsoft when I received my first Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award for the Windows Operating System. Since then I have been renewed as a Microsoft MVP each subsequent year since that initial award. I am also a member of the inaugural group of Windows Insider MVPs which began in 2016.

I previously hosted the Observed Tech PODCAST for 10 years and 317 episodes and now host a new podcast called Faith, Tech, and Space. 

I began contributing to Penton Technology websites in January 2015 and in April 2017 I was hired as the Senior Content Producer for Penton Technology which is now Informa Tech. In that role, I contribute to ITPro Today and cover operating systems, enterprise technology, and productivity.

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