How to Shazam a song in your own device

Shazam is an app that lets you discover music. We often go to Restaurants and Parties and there are moments when we love a song that gets played at the location but we don’t know its name. You won’t face that problem anymore when you download the Shazam App. It gives the complete song information with Artist, Song Name and even shows you the lyrics when the song is playing.

While everyone knows of the app Shazam there are hardly any people who use the Pop Up Shazam feature on it. With the Pop Shazam feature, you can detect the song which is played on your mobile phone. Hence, it will come in handy to the users who want to detect songs from Facebook videos on Instagram Story. Have a look at the steps below to see how it’s done.

How to Shazam a song in your own device:

1) Open your Shazam app and Navigate to “My Library” from the top left corner.

2) Open Settings and turn on Pop-Up Shazam by tapping on the slider.

Step 3- Tap on “Pop-Up Shazam is on” in your Notification bar to bring up Pop-Up Shazam. Once that’s done play the video or the song and you’ll get the information on your screen once Shazam recognizes the song.

That’s all for this Guide. For more guides like this, make sure you check out our “Guides” section. You can also check out our Sunday Gyaan video to know more about Shazam.

How To Get Your Music

Shazam is a great platform for potential new fans to discover your music. By shazaming one of your songs that they heard playing, they can discover you and find more of your music quickly. They can even sing along to your lyrics directly from the Shazam app. However, for them to be able to discover you, your music and details must be in the Shazam database. Here is how you can make sure they are on there.

Shazam Charts

Shazam generates its own charts based on how many shazams a song gets. The more people Shazam a song, the higher it climbs on the charts. There is a global chart that features the top 200 most shazamed tracks in the world, and also country-based and city-based charts, featuring the most shazamed tracks in select cities and countries. Users can discover popular songs through the Shazam charts. 

The Shazam charts have been used as a popularity metric to pre-determine hits by radio and TV stations, and by labels to spot rising talent. As an artist, Shazam is a useful discovery tool for your music, and it is highly advantageous to have your music in its database. I will discuss how to do that below.

Shazam Integration With Other Apps

You can connect your Apple Music or Spotify apps to your Shazam app, allowing you to listen to full songs that you discover. If not connected, you can only play a 30 second preview of the song. When you connect, you can add songs that you Shazam directly to Apple Music or Spotify playlists without even leaving the app. 

Shazam is built-in to Siri from iOS 8, so you can discover songs playing by asking Siri what song is playing. Siri will then identify the song, and provide you with an iTunes link to the song. Snapchat also has the Shazam music finder tool in-built in the app. To identify a song on Snapchat, simply open the camera screen, then press and hold the screen. After you Shazam the song, you can send it as a snap.

Shazam In-App Features

Other than song recognition, Shazam comes with several cool features that help improve the user experience. When you ‘Shazam’ a song, it generates the song title and artist name. On top of this, it also offers options on where to stream or buy the song. Shazam provides links to stream the track on Apple Music, Spotify and Deezer, or buy on iTunes and Google Play Music. You can also click on the artist name to go to their profile and discover more of their music. 

The app also displays the official YouTube or Apple Music music videos or official art track videos of the songs. Plus, you can find Shazam lyrics directly on the app. Shazam music app allows you to share songs and artists you discover on social media, WhatsApp, Email and more. 

The ‘Save’ feature on Shazam keeps track of all your shazams in the ‘My Shazams’ section. This allows you to go back and listen to a song you shazamed, or view your shazam history. It also saves the artists you discover on the app, enabling you to view their profiles and find more of their music. The Auto Shazam feature allows the app to run in the background and identify songs after you have closed it. The app can automatically detect songs while you do other things outside the app.

How Does Shazam Work?

The Shazam music finder app allows the user to easily find out the details to a song that is playing through a process aptly named ‘Shazam’. Being the first of its kind, the app gained popularity for its unique ability. Users quickly adopted the app’s name in phrases such as ‘I Shazamed the song” to indicate usage of the app.

Song Recognition Technology 

Shazam works by analysing a song’s frequency patterns and finding a match within its database of songs. Each song has a unique frequency pattern, and this is how Shazam can differentiate between tracks. Even when a song is redone (a cover or acoustic version), the frequency pattern for the new version is different from the original. The frequency pattern is referred to as an audio fingerprint. This is because it works like a person’s fingerprint – and even identical twins have different fingerprints. 

When you use Shazam to identify a song on the radio, the app picks the sample of the song and scans its database for a matching audio fingerprint. The sample, usually 10 seconds long, say from 0.10 – 0.20 seconds into the song, is enough to detect a match. Once a match is found, Shazam displays details of the song on your screen from its database.