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They're going to remove my "Open with Spotify" button aren't they

Ugh, this has become my favorite music feature of all time. I've made amazing playlists in Spotify by using Shazam around town in cafes and clubs. It was too good to be true.

I use sound hound, it has the same thing.

Awesome, thanks for the tip.

Soundhound also recognizes songs by humming. (Shazam can't)

Is it as good as Shazam at finding songs? I remember trying it early and not being impressed, but it was very brief so my sample size was too small.

I didn't find much difference in recognition capabilities between Shazam, SoundHound, and built-in recognition on Windows Phones.

Switched to SoundHound a long time ago and have found it equally as good as Shazam. I have every song I "discover" automatically added to a Spotify playlist so I can check it out later.

I use both regularly. SoundHound is my go to by default but I use Shazam as a backup. Shazam is more successful normally but I like SoundHound more for whatever reason.

Wow, Thanks for point this out and I have never heard of Soundhound before. ( Talk about Discovery problems )

There are many times when a song suddenly pops up into your head, and you cant record the exact lyrics, the may likely be a few words that is wrong so Google doesn't help, and humming it in Shazam never worked. I had always thought my voice was sounded too bad.

THANK YOU for the Sound Hound tip; I’d somehow been ignorant of its existence. Haven’t really put it through its paces yet but the UI and featureset look great. Never expected to say this but I might be done w/ Shazam!

It would be quite a joy if there were a way to curate/aggregate in-store music playlists and then serve them such that visitors could search by store.

I love this too — when it works. But I’ve had a long, recent and ongoing stretch of Shazam failing to identify songs.

"Open with  Music"

Tomorrow it'll be ● Music

It already has that.

FYI, 0xF8FF is only shown as an Apple logo on Apple products. It's a Unicode Private Use character.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Use_Areas#Vendor_use

On my device it shows as "( t )": https://i.imgur.com/b3Yhh1I.png

I'm not sure why.

On my Linux Mint 18 Chromium 62 it's the Apple.

Black box LG G6 Android. Come on, Google. You know what it's supposed to be :)

And the Android version of Shazam, if we're speculating along those lines.

Is there any loss in that? The integrated music recognition if Google Now rarely fails me, and when it does, Shazam wasn't able to recognize the song either.

That feature only works in the US (and maybe a few other countries?).

Are you sure about that? I know that it works in Germany. Might it be that you are confusing it with the Google Assistant song search?

Looking at my sound search history[0], I first used it in Germany in August 2014, so I'd be surprised if it wasn't rolled out worldwide by now (unless of course due to legal reasons).

[0]: https://myactivity.google.com/page?page=soundsearch

Huh, it looks like it works in my country (Sweden) now. It was unavailable for the longest time though.

I've never had it work as fast or accurately as Shazam, especially in noisy environments. There's also no obvious way to get the full history of the songs I've searched for (there probably is - it's just not easily discoverable). I had high hopes for the automatic detection that rolled out on pixel 2s but have found that it only works on the terrible music that my gym plays.

Never update

I wish you could turn off auto update for just one app on iOS.

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