Get Shazam on iPhone: free to download from the App Store
Create and share music moments and stories. With Shazam you can identify music tracks, buy them, and share the tags with friends. You can also learn more about artists; keep and grow your music collection and personalise your tags.
Identify music anywhere:
from the radio, TV, film, or in a store by simply holding your iPhone towards the music and tapping 'Tag'.
Buy music you hear:
your tags link directly to iTunes to give you one-touch access to the music you love.
Share the experience:
send your tags to friends who share your musical taste so they can add the tag to their own collection in Shazam.
Watch the video:
view related videos and other music content on YouTube.
Personalise your tags:
capture the moment by taking and adding a photo or attach an existing picture. See your shots seamlessly added to your iPhone photo album.
Learn more about the music:
in the tag result you can read track and album reviews and artist biographies, plus see other music from the artist and view song lyrics (staring with users in North America).
Sort your tags:
as your Shazam collection grows you can take control and organise by artist, title, or date - making it easy to find the tag you want.
Store pending tags:
for when you don't have data connection, you can still capture the music moment. The untagged track can be sent later when you are back in WiFi or data coverage.
Shazam now supports 2nd generation iPod touch (external microphone required).
To support our goal of providing a feature-rich app which is free to download and use, you will see relevant advertising start to appear.
This version of the Shazam application is available for free for the iPhone and the 2nd generation iPod touch and can be downloaded from Apple's App Store on iPhone or at iTunes in the following countries:
Austria, Belgium, Canada, Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Finland, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States, Australia, New Zealand.
For support enquiries please contact the Customer Services team.
Shazam will be featured in the App Store application on the iPhone and on the iPod touch. It's also available to download and sync to your iPhone/iPod touch in iTunes.
Shazam works on 2.5G and 3G iPhones. The Tag Volume indicator is turned off by default, but can be activated as described here.
Shazam is also compatible with the new iPod touch.
2nd Generation iPod touch users can now use Shazam. Because the iPod touch device doesn't come equipped with a microphone, you'll need to use a headset with a microphone in order for Shazam to identify the music to produce a Tag Result.
Your Tag List will be retained from version 1.0. However, please ensure that you don't delete the current version of Shazam before upgrading.
Shazam now supports the following languages: English, Japanese, German, French, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish and Italian
The application is free to download and use. For this version, we've introduced advertising in some territories in order to keep the application free.
The application is free and Shazam is not charging you anything for using this version of our service, so don't hold-back from using it.
Shazam has been free to download and use since launch. We want to ensure our customers are able to carry on using Shazam for free. The best way of doing this is to provide relevant advertising.
We've introduced a tag volume indicator to help you see the level of what you're recording. It pulses larger when volume is highest. If you would prefer not to see this, please see below.
From the My Tags screen, press the "i" button at the top of the menu bar. The settings screen should appear. Slide "Tag Volume Indicator" to turn it on or off. When on, the "halo" around the Shazam tag screen will pulse during recording.
From the My Tags screen press the "i" button at the top of the menu bar. The settings screen should appear. Roll the menu down to sort by date, title or artist. You can also ensure your untagged tracks appear first in the list.
Photos you've taken and attached will appear in your camera roll. You can attach another photo to your tag by using the Attach Photo button in Shazam.
We do a lookup on YouTube and we get the best match. We depend on the content in YouTube to be properly tagged for us to check this.
Lyrics are licensed to us and our suppliers on a territory-by-territory basis. We currently only have the rights to display in the United States.
The current Shazam application is a self-contained experience, but we are looking at ways to provide the full Shazam service.
This can happen after upgrading to iPhone OS 2.2 and can usually be fixed by a power-cycle, as described here.
This can occasionally happen after an upgrade, please perform a power-cycle, as described here.
To power cycle the iPhone 3G, hold the top power switch down for 10 seconds until the power off slider appears on the front of the phone, you must continue to hold the top switch as you operate the power off slider. Wait a minute and turn the phone back on with the top switch.
You will need to install iTunes, which allows you to backup your iPhone.
When you first use iTunes and the iPhone you establish a connection between the phone and your computer. Attempting to synchronise or update with another computer is not possible and you may receive an error message.
While we do charge for our UK 2580 and our Shazam for Java service, the iPhone application is free to download and use. The "30 day free offer" relates to our Shazam for Java subscription, the iPhone application is a completely separate entity.
To uninstall the Shazam application, simply do the following:
1) hold your finger on either the icon for the application you wish to uninstall or any other icon until the icons on your home screen begin to shake or wiggle (the same action you take to move or re-arrange home screen icons)
2) click the "X" in the upper left hand corner of the icon for the application you wish to remove.
To re-install the application at a later time, simply visit the App Store and select the application again.
Shazam is not available for Windows Mobiles. We offer a number of other services which can be explored on the Get Shazam! page on our website.
We can't currently register iPhone customers with Shazam.com. In order to register with us we need the customer's mobile number. That's not something we get from Apple. Once we get this info we can allow customers to register.
We supply reviews of the album or track wherever possible and biographies. These are only in English. We are currently looking to supply in other languages.
Shazam is currently available is 20+ iTunes App Stores globally and we're considering when to release in other countries. Your feedback helps us to prioritize releasing in new markets and we'll try to get Shazam in more countries soon.
The application file size is approximately 940KB on the iPhone and 0.6MB to download from the App Store.
To tag a track Shazam will record and send from your device a data packet of about 4KB. The audio recording is not stored permanently on the handset. The tag information and artwork we then send to your handset normally uses around 55KB of data. The total amount of data you will download will be dependent on the number of times you view the page and what's displayed on the page. You'll use anything between 1KB and 30KB when you download an advert.
