Shazam, the famous app that allows you to identify the name of a song in seconds, has received an important update from Apple, which acquired it in 2018. Now Shazam is also able to recognize the songs present in the videos of other apps such as TikTok, Instagram, YouTube. All from the same device.
However the new feature is only available for Apple devices.
What changes?
Previously, users could not leverage the smartphone’s internal audio to use Shazam. In fact, traditionally the app uses the device’s microphone to capture the music around the listener. However, this made recognition via other apps impossible, since both the Shazam application and the reference song application had to be kept open for it to work.
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With the new update, Shazam is able to access the playback of other apps, thus being able to recognize the songs present in the Instagram reels or in YouTube and TikTok videos.
How to use Shazam with third-party apps like TikTok, YouTube and Instagram
To discover the title of a song in a video on TikTok, Instagram or YouTube, just follow these steps:
- Open Shazam and press the blue button to start recognition.
- Without closing Shazam, open the app where the video is with the song you want to identify
- Go back to Shazam and wait for the app to return the search result with all the information about the song and the artist.
Another way to use Shazam to recognize a song in a video is to use the built-in function in the control center of the iPhone.
Meanwhile Shazam has turned 21 since its first launch. Well yes, the service was born well before the advent of smartphones. His story back in 2002, when a much more primitive medium was used to communicate, halfway between the homing pigeon and WhatsApp: l’SMS. In fact, web connections were still relegated to the use of computers, and the few cell phones that allowed access to browsers had to contend with slow lines. To know the complete story of the app that revolutionized the concept of “but what’s this song called?” we refer you to our dedicated article.
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