There are many miracles in the modern world. People in recent years have become so used to unusual things that they have ceased to pay attention to them. What until recently could be called nothing more than magic, fantasy and the embodiment of magic, today is already perceived as a typical attribute of everyday life. One of these magical wonders is the Shazam app. What it is? This will be discussed.
Program Purpose
Just a couple of years ago, comments about asking for what kind of music was inserted into the video were almost completely left to any video clip on the Web. Yes, yes, it was. But nowadays, if there is a smartphone in your pocket on which the Shazam program is installed, it is much faster and easier to find the song you like on your own.
For example, a man sits in a cafe: suddenly a melody sounded that he had been trying to find for a long time, but he couldn’t remember the name. Or he heard a soundtrack in his favorite movie that he wanted to listen to, but he couldn’t find it in any way. Shazam is great for any such situation. What kind of app is this?
The main screen of the program
When opening the application for the first time, the user sees in the very middle of the main screen a large button designed to start music recognition. Accordingly, to find out the melody, you need to click on this button. If the situation is quite quiet, then, as a rule, no special problems with the definition of music arise. This is taking into account the fact that the song is already contained in the Shazam database. What does it mean? There are countless melodies in the world. It is impossible to instantly add them all to the database. This process is gradual.
If the room is very noisy or the music plays in vehicles, where there are always a lot of extraneous sounds, recognition of the melody does not always happen with success. In the upper right corner there is a switch to automatically determine the name of the song. When you turn it on, the application will continue to recognize music for four hours. This will happen even when the user exited the program.
Settings
The left corner contains the gear icon. This is the application settings. In this menu, you can log in to your user account on Facebook, share tags with your friends, disable or enable notifications, read legal information about the terms of use of the program, privacy. Also, through the settings menu, the user can get the necessary help by writing to Shazam support. What can it give? Specialists will help solve any technical problems and answer questions related to the operation of the application. Here you can purchase the Encore version of the program.
Bottom of the screen
At the bottom there are five menu icons: “News”, “Tags”, “Opening”, “Pulse” and “Recognition Start”. A menu with news is necessary so that the user can find out about the appearance of new clips, updates. Here you can follow artists and television shows, view messages from your friends.
In the "Tags" are lists with recognized music. There are two lists in total: "My Tags" and "Auto". The first contains only those tunes that the user has found on his own. The second lists the tracks recognized in automatic mode. If you want to buy several songs at the same time, there is a button with the corresponding name - “For purchase”.
By clicking on each of the tags, the user can read the artist’s biography, see his discography, videos, a list of artists that are similar to the current one, a review of the album, information about future concerts, as well as the name of the album, the genre of the composition and the recording studio. Any tag can be shared on social networks using both the messenger program and email. If the melody is recognized, you can listen to passages and buy it in one of the digital stores.
The “Opening” tab allows you to view on the map where and what tune has been recognized recently. For this purpose, the application uses the geolocation function. Well, a tab called “Pulse” shows in real time the most top-end music.
How to get the app?
Everyone can download the program for the Android platform, since it is completely free. There are three versions for apple devices. The free ad contains. Encore version is full. It is ad-free, but paid. The third version is Red. It was created in order to transfer part of the funds to charity. Shazam for Windows Phone is also available for download at the company store. Although there are fewer users of this OS, the developers took care of them.
In addition, I must say that there is no version of Shazam for the computer. The only option is to install the Android emulator for the PC. Today, such programs are quite functional and support most of the mobile applications, as they repeat the architecture of smartphones and tablets.