Comments on: SHAZAM! Awesome Music Recognition App!

By: MiKe R

MiKe R — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:08:44 +0000

This is cool. Was always jealous of some verizon phones that had this feature. I downloaded it and interestingly ran shazam against the cake video you are playing in your youtube video. Damn it, it detected it! Nice, a keeper for me, thanks for the tip.

By: Felicia

Felicia — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:41:42 +0000

I always wondered, when you buy the g1 the app store is mostly free right? so what happens when the “free” apps are turned into the paid ones?? will it uninstall??

By: jo

jo — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 01:02:24 +0000

I have it on my Iphone. It is a free app. Very nice.

By: Bigtex

Bigtex — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:54:12 +0000

Seems like a nifty application. I like that you’re doing videos now! Congrats on gettin’ your G1. I’ve been counting the days until I can get one myself.

By: David

David — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:13:36 +0000

I’ve got this on the iPhone and haven’t seen any references to charging for it … while midomi did a pretty good job of detecting what I sang into it the recording/radio recognition was terrible and never actually worked. Here’s to hoping it stays free? Not sure the *cool factor* is worth 2.50/month when I can just as easily lean over and ask someone else who did that stupid song from the iPhone commercial that my wife loves.

By: phandroid.com

phandroid.com — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:43:57 +0000

You might notice at the bottom of the application UI there is an advertisement. In this particular video it was of a website that claimed to have 10,000 breweries listed or something. So, it seems like they are going the sponsorship route. I think that model will work.

Also, they provide a link to purcahse on the Amazon Store. If this is an affiliate link, they could make money not only from someone purchasing that song from the store (from their phone) but of anything that person buys from Amazon from their phone in X amount of days.

I also think people would pay a couple bucks for this application if it was a 1 time fee. Just because its cool, cheap and you never know when it could come in handy. Plus its fun to show people hehe.

But I agree… subscription might reel in a few suckers but overall a bad idea IMHO.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:37:47 +0000

Unfortunately, Shazam’s business model is based on monthly subscriptions, which is silly. Their android app might be free now (I couldn’t find any reference to it on their web site), but it is obvious that they plan on charging a monthly service for it in the future. They currently want around $2.50/month to use the service on other cell phones. Who is really going to pay a monthly fee to occasionally be able to identify a song?

Hopefully the similar service, midomi, comes out with an Android version (they already have an iPhone version). It is a free service and offers other features like the ability to detect songs that you sing.