Appmuse

As a classical music fan, I find this a frustrating app. They've gone to the trouble of putting thousands of classical recordings into their database, and the app is frequently successful in identifying relatively obscure items. The problem is that they haven't bothered to think about how to present the identification. Here's my latest example: I turned on the radio in midstream of what was clearly a piano quartet or quintet. It was obviously 19th-century French music, and I suspected — from a similarity to a piano trio I knew — that the composer was Fauré. From tempo etc. it seemed we were in the final movement. What I wanted to know — what a classical music fan typically wants to know — was the composer and the name of the overall 4-movement composition. After a couple of tries, Shazam succeeded, telling me that the piece was 4. Allegro Molto, performed by the Beaux Arts Trio & Lawrence Dutton. That was Interesting, but you see what's missing: precisely the two pieces of information I wanted. Now, of course, I could use this information to identify the piece by Googling, or I could just wait to the end and hear what the announcer says. I conclude, however, that Shazam is not interested in the classical music niche audience. They could easily fix this issue. How about a button for "more information"? Show more

waste of time on a mac just use on another phone

And now, to make the experience more noxious, a constant Apple Music FREE!!!! nagscreen.. Don't even bother, unless you're a masochist.

Since august 2021 it never succesfully identifies the track anymore.. I have no idea what happened.

I've used the app with no problem up until 8/13, then a few days later every single time i try to use the app I get a "didn't catch that, try again" error message. I've restarted my computer, deleted and re-installed the app to no avail. I've also looked online and have yet to find a solution to this problem, it'd be great if you'd fix this! Show more

Soundhound was able to identify the songs but it's not supported on mac OS

This is an Apple app (apple bough and integrated this app long time ago). - When are we going to the the new icon matching Big Sur? We are about to go to MacOS Monterey, and we had no major update. - When is it going to have th iCloud Sync with all apple ecosystem devices? Macs are the only one not syncing. - When is it going to have the Sync with Apple Music here in the Mac?? Please this a great app on the Mac too! Show more

rarely recognizes the song

the mac app is extremely slow, it takes 1-2 minutes to open, it's impossible to use

Seconding a comment from 2 years ago: should sync with iOS app. Also this Mac app produces different results compared to the iOS app. In particular, the Mac app wrongly identified a song as Atlantis Ocean - Bolide when the iOS app correctly identified it as Sonic Future - Theme IV. Don't both apps share the same song identifying code? Clearly the Mac app is not getting much attention. Show more

Shazam is a great service but it would be much easier to use on a desktop system if it could listen to songs being played by other software on the same system, as it can do in iOS on the iPhone. The need for a microphone and speakers to shazam a track being played on the same system is too much of a requirment for use. Please let us shazam music played by any source on the system, like the iPhone. Show more

It doesn't sync with the mobile app or the iTunes playlist, you lose track of everything you shazam on desktop.

It's magic!!!

I love using Shazam on my iPhone and figured it would be great to have Shazam on my MacBook so I could easily access the same library of songs I Shazammed. Apparently it does not link to your iCloud account so the songs you Shazam on your iPhone will not show up in this app and vice versa. Very poortly thought out in my opinion for a product that is owned and maintained by Apple. Show more

its awsome thanks so much for this app!

Was expecting Shazam to be able to access the audio stream currently playing on my Mac. What's the point? Now, the sound in my bluetooth headphones is messed up severely. No clue what's going on. Just integrate this into the system audio. And, why keep cluttering up the menu bar? Shouldn't this just be a Catalyst app? Show more

I thought Apple owned Shazam. This app runs terribly on the Mac to the point that it overheats the hardware. Utterly ridiculous! The Music app is also slow and glitchy, it seems Apple is begging for us to switch to the cheaper (and seemingly better) alternative. Show more

Now we have Shazam library syncing from iOS to My Library on the Shazam website. But where is my library on the Mac? I can't believe it's taking years to get this done. I downloaded Mac Shazam again, hoping that my library would appear on the Mac. I cannot for the life of me understand how it can be synced to the Shazam website and not be able to be synced to the Shazam application on the Mac platform. Show more

Who is capturing music "in the wild" while on their laptop or desktop. My use case is to sycnh my tags so I can "re-listen" to them and add them to my playlists from the comfort of my deskchair. Pointless for me at least. Show more

Process runs and that's about it. No icon in menu bar. Usually have to kill in activity monitor